Retailers for lifting import ban on consumer goods
Pakistan is a big consumer of Indonesian palm oil and is importing $2.8 billion worth of palm oil annually. PHOTO: Reuters
Representatives of different importer, distributor and retailer organisations, while expressing concern over the ban on imports, have called on the government to introduce a fuel management plan, which can save $240 million per annum.
“Only the fuel management plan can bring the country out of the current economic mess and reduce the current account deficit if the government introduces a five-day working week in all government offices and places a ceiling on working hours for private sector offices and big malls,” remarked Khalid Usman, President Progressive Group, and Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer, President Business Forum Lahore.
They said the recently promulgated SRO 598 (1) 2022 even banned the import of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), which were daily-use items.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 24th, 2022.
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