PAKISTAN TALKS TO UK GOVERNMENT OVER BREXIT TRADING FEARS

PAKISTAN has been staging talks with the British government to lessen impact of Brexit on Pakistan’s textile and other key industries. A senior official at Pakistan’s ministry of commerce told WTiN.com that Pakistani officials had already consulted London officials about how trade concessions available to Pakistan through the European Union’s (EU) GSP+ scheme would continue after a UK exit from the EU. This would either be under new arrangements worked out between the UK and the EU or through bilateral arrangements with Britain. The trading system is one ...


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