{"id":15701,"date":"2022-06-17T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:08:37","slug":"fpcci-portugal-desire-to-expand-the-bilateral-trade-between-two-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/fpcci-portugal-desire-to-expand-the-bilateral-trade-between-two-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"FPCCI &#038; Portugal desire to expand the bilateral trade between two Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15703\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Photo-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Photo-1-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Photo-1-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Photo-1-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Photo-1-1-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><em><strong>Islamabad &#8211; Umar Masood ur Rehman, Vice President Federation of<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Pakistan Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry, visited the Embassy of Portugal<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>in Islamabad and met H.E Paulo Neves Pocinho Portugal&#8217;s Ambassador to<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Pakistan. Both discussed the matters of mutual interest and talk over<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>regarding wide-ranging trade, industry and commercial avenues of<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>cooperation, investments and joint ventures.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>H.E Paulo Neves Pocinho said to Mr. Umar Masood ur Rehman to Organize a<br \/>\nWebinar Between the Portuguese and Pakistan Businessmen in October or<br \/>\nNovember 2022, in which presentations on the Portugal and Pakistan<br \/>\nCulture and Trade will be given to get to know each other.<\/h5>\n<h5>Ambassador shared that Portugal wants to enhance bilateral<br \/>\ntrade with Pakistan in view of the high potential between the two<br \/>\ncountries. Portugal and Pakistan should develop close cooperation with<br \/>\nit to get better market access to European and African regions. He said<br \/>\nthat both countries have room to strengthen bilateral collaboration for<br \/>\nmutual benefit. He emphasized the need ofExchange of Trade delegations<br \/>\nbetween both the countries.<\/h5>\n<h5>He said Portugal has PTAs with many countries and by investing in<br \/>\nPortugal; Pakistani investors can promote exports to Europe, Africa,<br \/>\nCanada and other regions. Portugal can serve as a gateway to Europe for<br \/>\nPakistan. FPCCI should form a delegation for Portugal to<br \/>\nexplore new business opportunities. He offered to expedite the visa<br \/>\nprocessing for the business, industry, and trade community\u2019s<br \/>\nrepresentatives of Pakistan to create an enabling environment for them<br \/>\nto forge business-to-business and people-to-people relationships.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Umar Masood ur Rehman, Vice President FPCCI said that Pakistan wishes to<br \/>\nincrease trade ties with Portugal as both countries have the potential<br \/>\nto improve bilateral trade in different sectors. The trade potential<br \/>\nbetween the countries far exceeds the current trade volume and both<br \/>\ncountries need to work on realizing that potential. He said that<br \/>\nPakistan is producing quality products at affordable costs and<br \/>\nhighlighted that Portugal can get benefit of this situation. Trade<br \/>\nvolume between Pakistan and Portugal is not encouraging and it is<br \/>\nessential that both countries should promote strong connectivity between<br \/>\nprivate sectors to identify untapped sectors of mutual cooperation. He<br \/>\nalso stated that Portugal should enhance the import of Pakistani<br \/>\nproducts including textiles, garments, surgical instruments, sports<br \/>\ngoods, leather products, fruits &amp; vegetables and other required products<br \/>\nto attained full benefits of GSP Plus.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. Umar Masood Ur Rehman, Vice President FPCCI, has invited the<br \/>\nPortugal companies to expand their presence in Pakistan; and, look into<br \/>\nthe joint ventures and strategic partners to extend their interests.<br \/>\nPortugal has enormous opportunities in Pakistan to invest in poultry,<br \/>\ndairy, animal feed, modern agriculture, food processing, and industrial<br \/>\ncollaborations. investment cooperation are other area in which both<br \/>\ncountries could collaborate for mutual benefits. bilateral trade between<br \/>\nthe two brotherly countries can be increased multifold. He said that<br \/>\nfrequent exchange of business delegations are the options that can bring<br \/>\npeople of both the countries closer to each other that would eventually<br \/>\nenhance the mutual cooperation between Pakistan and Portugal.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad &#8211; Umar Masood ur Rehman, Vice President Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry, visited the Embassy of Portugal in Islamabad and met H.E Paulo Neves Pocinho Portugal&#8217;s Ambassador to Pakistan. Both discussed the matters of mutual interest and talk over regarding wide-ranging trade, industry and commercial avenues of cooperation, investments and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1799,1385,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15705,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/15705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}