Croatian envoy invites Pakistani workers to explore opportunities in Croatia
Ambassador of Republic of Croatia Dr Drago Stambuk, inviting Pakistani workers to explore employment opportunities in Croatia, said that his country was demographically falling down and it needed human resource especially skilled and young people.
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Business community take advantage of GSP+ by diversifying exports
Ambassador of European Union (EU) to Pakistan, Dr. Riina Kionka, advised business community of Karachi to broaden and diversify their exports to EU for taking maximum advantage of EU’s GSP Plus scheme for Pakistan which has recently been rolled over for four more years up to 2027.
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FBR asked to get rectify errors in filing ST returns
President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry Iftikhar Ahmed Sheikh has asked the FBR to issue directives for rectifying the technical errors being suffered by the filers of Sales Tax Return who have been facing a lot of problems in filing their Sales Tax Returns since last three months.
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KCCI advised to identify exportable products for Kenyan Market
High Commissioner of Kenya Ms. Nyambura Kamau has requested Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry to submit its input at the Ministry of Commerce about exportable products which can be supplied by Karachi to Kenya so that the same could also be negotiated in the next Joint Trade Committee…
Need to devise legal framework to control shipping lines
President KCAA Arshad Khurshid requested Karachi Chamber to approach the government for safeguarding the interests and rights of traders, customs agents and all other stakeholders by devising the desperately needed legislation’s to regulate shipping lines and terminal operators who have been fearlessly and highhandedly demanding exorbitantly high charges due to lack of regulatory framework.
KCCI is the rejected hike of gas tariff by ECC
The Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry and all seven industrial town associations of the city, while unanimously terming the extortionate hike in gas tariffs for export-oriented and general industries as ‘unviable, unacceptable & unfeasible’, vociferously appealed Prime Minister and his cabinet not to accept ECC’s decision of such a huge increase in gas tariffs and consider bringing gas tariffs to a level where these become viable and absorbable so that the wheels of industries in Karachi keep spinning.
Furniture Exporters Association delegation seeks KCCI’s help in dealing with rising raids by customs
Members of a delegation from All Pakistan Furniture Exporters Association (APFEA), while expressing deep concerns over rising number of raids being conducted by customs authorities, stated that the upsurge in customs raids at the furniture markets of the city including the most recent one in Nursery Furniture Market, were terribly tarnishing the reputation and integrity of legitimate shopkeepers who have to be saved from unbridled harassment by customs authorities.
President KCCI for complete ban on imported recycled plastic
President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry Mohammed Tariq Yousuf has advised the government to put the import of recycled plastic under any description in the negative list or place complete ban on this item as massive volume of smuggled Plastics from neighboring country and mis-declaration in terms of value and quantity have caused major…
KCCI Chief appeals immediate relief in electricity bills by tomorrow
President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Mohammed Tariq Yousuf has said that although the Caretaker Prime Minister convened an urgent meeting on Sunday wherein the concerned authorities were directed to devise concrete measures within 48 hours to alleviate extraordinary burden of inflated electricity bills but the Karachi Chamber was under tremendous pressure being…
BMG, KCCI Leadership term unbearable electricity tariff as ‘un-viable’
The Leadership of Businessmen Group and Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI), while referring to Caretaker Prime Minister’s meeting scheduled in Quetta on Sunday (August 27) with representatives of Power Sector, stated that the Karachi Chamber once again strongly protests the unbearable rise in electricity tariff as it was neither affordable for common man…