{"id":49535,"date":"2025-07-23T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=49535"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:33:21","slug":"pakistan-afghanistan-sign-preferential-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-afghanistan-sign-preferential-trade-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Afghanistan Sign Preferential Trade Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49536\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Afghanistan-PTA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Afghanistan-PTA.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Afghanistan-PTA-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Afghanistan-PTA-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pakistan-Afghanistan-PTA-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">ISLAMABAD: 23 July 2025 &#8211; The preferential trade agreement between the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of Afghanistan represented by the Maulvi Ahmadullah Zahid, the Minister of Commerce, and the Ministry of Commerce of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, represented by Jawad Paal, the Secretary of ministry of Commerce, was officially signed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Based on the interest of the agreement, customs tariffs on four Afghanistan export pens to Pakistan \u2014 grapes, pomegranates, apples and pomegranates \u2014 as well as four Pakistan export pens to Afghanistan \u2014 mango, quinoa, banana and aloe \u2014 which previously were more than 60%, will henceforth be It will be cut by 27%.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The agreement will be put into effect for one year from the beginning of August 2025, and is renewable, with the possibility of additional items in the future.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: 23 July 2025 &#8211; The preferential trade agreement between the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of Afghanistan represented by the Maulvi Ahmadullah Zahid, the Minister of Commerce, and the Ministry of Commerce of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, represented by Jawad Paal, the Secretary of ministry of Commerce, was officially signed. Based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[7339,48,1981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49535"}],"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=49535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49537,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49535\/revisions\/49537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}