In response to concerted efforts of incumbent Government, Australia has slashed duty on Pakistani products mainly textile products by 50 per cent – from 10 per cent to five per cent. Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan has said, “Pakistan’s textile, clothing and footwear will be the beneficiary of the reduction in the duty by the Australian Government. Duty has been slashed on 226 tariff lines of which only eight are non-textile items and remaining 218 are related to textile sector – 63 are home textile.” Commerce Ministry would now chalk out a plan aimed at facilitating Pakistani textile sector entrepreneurs with Australian buyers.
