SCODA to help enhance Pakistan’s exports

Counsellor for focusing on demand-driven products

BEIJING:

Pakistan’s pavilion at the Qingdao SCODA Pearl International Expo Centre has emerged as a great platform that will help enhance exports to China and other countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). “This kind of online platform is very important to enhance our exports but it has to be more demanddriven,” Pakistan Embassy Commercial Counsellor in Beijing Ghulam Qadir told APP. The international expo centre, located in the SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA), had been made operational in November 2022.

Pakistani products exhibited at one of the exhibition halls include clothes, rice and various food items besides an array of cultural traditions. “There is a need to see what kinds of products are being imported by China and what their preferences are,” the counsellor remarked. “We also need to know the nature of demand from other SCO countries, and based on that, we need to increase and diversify such products which are to be displayed here,” he added.

About the pavilion, the envoy said it was actually supported by the government of China, which also wanted Pakistan to enhance its exports to Beijing. Qadir pointed out that there was a huge trade deficit with China, which could be bridged by ramping up exports from Pakistan.