Pakistan has great potential to export dry fruits to Japan

Islamabad

Pakistan has great potential to promote exports of IT products, mangoes, dry fruits and many other products to Japan and Pakistani businessmen should exploit these opportunities for promoting trade with Japan.

This was observed by Masao Otsuka, Japan International Cooperation Agency's Trade Promotion Adviser to Trade Development Authority of Pakistan during his visit to Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI).

He said Japan's 2 million SMEs were looking for import of software products from outside due to their high cost in local market and Pakistan's IT sector businessmen has good opportunity to promote export of software products to Japanese SMEs. He said Japanese companies were facing shortage of engineers and they were keen to invest in Pakistan, but have some reservations on security situation here. He said Pakistan could attract more investment from Japan by setting up specific economic zones, providing secured environment and ensuring uninterrupted power supply to Japanese investors.