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Tehran, Kabul to ink preferential trade agreement
11-Jan-2021 Tehran Times
Director General of the Asia-Pacific Office at Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization said that a preferential trade agreement with Afghanistan is going to be signed in the near future.
Pakistan eyes preferential trade with Afghanistan
28-Oct-2020 The Express Tribune
Pakistan would discuss a preferential trade agreement with Afghanistan, as the two neighbours would open talks on a new transit trade agreement.
KP businessmen for Pak-China style FTA with Afghanistan
11-May-2020 Business Recorder
The Khhyber Pakhtunkhwa business community on Tuesday called for signing of a Pak-Afghan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the pattern of FTA inked with China.
Iran ready for free trade with regional countries: Official
13-Sep-2017 Iran Daily
Iran is ready to establish preferential tariffs and free trade with some regional countries, particularly Afghanistan, Pakistan and Oman.
US, Afghanistan hold TIFA meeting, talk about trade
1-Apr-2017 Lexology
The U.S.-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council met in Kabul and discussed a wide array of trade and investment related topics.
Skewed Afghan transit trade ‘pact’
17-Aug-2010
A trade agreement between any two countries is based on mutually beneficial terms while Pakistan has inked the Afghan – Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement that tends to compromise our national interests and will eventually hurt the domestic industry.
Pakistan, Afghanistan to ink new trade agreements
28-Dec-2008 Daily Times
Pakistan and Afghanistan are expected to enter in to a new trade and economic cooperation mechanism during the President of Pakistan first official visit to Afghanistan on January 7, 2009
Cabinet paves way for Afghanistan’s entry into SAFTA
7-Oct-2008
The Union Cabinet on Friday paved the way for the formal entry of Afghanistan into the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA).
Afghan Minister confirms signing of trade agreement with Pakistan
26-Mar-2008 Trading Markets
The Afghan Minister for Trade and Commerce has said that his country has signed a bilateral trade agreement with Pakistan.
Govt may cut duties for Afghanistan’s Safta entry
21-Nov-2007
As Afghanistan is likely to be inducted as the eight member of the South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) by February 2008, minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh today said India will bring down duties on 4,356 tariff lines (products) to zero for facilitating trade with Afghanistan.
US eyes trade with Pakistan and Afghanistan
28-Aug-2007 Reuters
The Bush administration will push Congress in coming months to approve legislation aimed at creating reconstruction opportunity zones so that goods produced in designated parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan can enter the United States duty-free.
Pakistan hopes for US action on trade zones
7-Aug-2007 Reuters
Pakistan wants the United States to pass legislation on "reconstruction opportunity zones" that would allow it and Afghanistan to export textiles, clothing and other goods without paying US duties.
Islamabad not opposed to Kabul’s SAFTA membership
10-Aug-2006
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the notion as baseless that it was opposed to Afghanistan’s entry into the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA).
Islamabad for free trade agreement with Kabul
21-Jun-2006
Pakistan has suggested talks on preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Afghanistan to lead to free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
Humayun proposes PTA talks with Kabul
15-Jun-2006 Dawn
Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan on Wednesday suggested initiation of talks on preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Afghanistan, which would lead to free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
ECO Trade Agreement (ECOTA, 2003)
31-Aug-2005 ECO Secretariat
QIZ to be set up at Pak-Afghan border
22-Aug-2005 Daily Times
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been informed that Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon submit a joint proposal for establishment of Qualified Industrial Zone at Pak-Afghan Border to export to the United States of America.
India-Afghanistan PTA (2003)
5-Aug-2005
PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA AND THE TRANSITIONAL ISLAMIC STATE OF AFGHANISTAN
Dhaka hesitant to sign FTA with neighbours
5-Apr-2005 News from Bangladesh
Bangladesh is hesitant to take any practical move to sign free trade agreement (FTA) as it has been sitting on several proposals from many neighbouring countries that have done so among themselves for their own benefits.
Pakistan proposes preferential trade pact with Afghanistan
15-Feb-2005 Asia Pulse
Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan has proposed signing of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) leading to a free trade agreement (FTA) with Afghanistan in the near future to increase the volume of bilateral trade between the two countries.