SCCI Inaugurates NADRA e-Sahulat Biometric Facility
The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has inaugurated a NADRA eSahulat Biometric Facility to facilitate its members through digital verification and other essential services. The facility will offer biometric verification services for the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Pakistan Single Window, proof-of-life certificates, CNIC-related services, court matters, and vehicle ownership transfers.
Pakistan Well-Positioned to Meet Maldivian Market's Growing Requirements
Federal Minister for Commerce Jam Kamal Khan emphasised the need to transform the longstanding friendship between Pakistan and the Maldives into a stronger economic partnership. He highlighted the role of Pakistan Single Window in providing traders access to multiple government agencies through a unified digital platform.
Tariffs: An Overlooked Test Case
The Federal Board of Revenue records customs declarations through WeBOC, including imported products, transaction values, applicable duties and exemption arrangements. Pakistan Single Window integrates traderelated information, while historical customs schedules provide the tariff rates applicable to individual products.
PSW Partners with PHDEC to Advance Digital Trade Readiness of Pakistan’s Horticulture Sector
Pakistan Single Window (PSW) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Company (PHDEC) to strengthen the horticulture sector’s ability to participate in Pakistan’s evolving digital trade ecosystem
Are Pakistan’s Ease-of-Doing Business Initiatives Delivering?
Pakistan does not lack ease-of-doing-business initiatives. Pakistan Single Window has pushed trade-related procedures onto a common digital platform.
Pakistan Targets $100b in Annual Exports by 2035 through Trade Reforms
Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Commerce and Industries Rana Ihsaan Afzal Khan reaffirmed the government’s commitment to achieving $100 billion in annual exports by 2035 through comprehensive trade reforms, improved market access, industrial competitiveness, and sustained policy implementation.
PIDE Sets Out Six-Point Roadmap to Unlock Pakistan’s Export Potential
He highlighted the Trade Facilitation Board and Pakistan Single Window as key initiatives to streamline trade procedures, identifying information and communication technology (ICT), artificial intelligence, agriculture, minerals and the blue economy as major drivers of export diversification.
Pakistan Seeks Alibaba Cooperation for Cashless Economy, SME Exports
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb met Alibaba International Digital Commerce leadership in Bangkok to discuss cooperation on digital payments, e-commerce and technology, including proposals to rationalise e-commerce taxation and accelerate Pakistan Single Window platform
TDAP Concludes Capacity-Building Training for Help Desk Officials
Sessions covered trade statistics, including practical use of trade data from PRAL, the Pakistan Single Window (PSW) and TDAP, and step-by-step use of ITC Trade Map.
From Farm to UAE’s Premium Markets
At the policy level, ministries, the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), DPP, and the heavily paid Pakistan Single Window must actively collaborate to build an institutional “Green Channel” that reduces trade friction. Fast-track implementation of Electronic Phytosanitary (ePhyto) exchange systems, linking Pakistan’s regulatory bodies directly with the UAE’s federal MOCCAE ZAD portal, is to be prioritized.