{"id":51845,"date":"2019-05-04T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51845"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:10:28","slug":"govt-to-reduce-duties-on-raw-material-in-budget-dawood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-reduce-duties-on-raw-material-in-budget-dawood.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to reduce duties on raw material in budget: Dawood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multan: The government plans to reduce the cost of doing business by slashing duties on raw material and intermediary goods in the upcoming federal budget for (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-budget-announcement-likely-in-third-week-of-may.html\">Punjab budget announcement likely in third week of May<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood recently expressed his views on the matter. He was speaking at the launch ceremony of a PepsiCo plant in Multan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>PepsiCo Pakistan and Afghanistan Vice President and General Manager Furqan Ahmed Syed, PepsiCo partner suppliers, and several senior officials of the government were all present at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The adviser lauded the establishment of the\u00a0soft drink facility in Multan. He said that investments of such stature signal the confidence reposed by global companies in Pakistan\u2019s manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/attractive-package-for-farmers-in-upcoming-budget.html\">Attractive package for farmers in upcoming budget<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that the incumbent government wants investors to manufacture goods for local consumers. He added that the authorities concerned do not want to rely on costly imports of consumer goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multan: The government plans to reduce the cost of doing business by slashing duties on raw material and intermediary goods in the upcoming federal budget for (fiscal year) FY2019-20, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Punjab budget announcement likely in third week of May Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood recently expressed his views on the matter. He was speaking at the launch ceremony of a PepsiCo plant in Multan on Thursday. PepsiCo Pakistan and Afghanistan Vice President and General Manager Furqan Ahmed Syed, PepsiCo partner suppliers, and several senior officials of the government were all present at the occasion. The adviser lauded the establishment of the\u00a0soft drink facility in Multan. He said that investments of such stature signal the confidence reposed by global companies in Pakistan\u2019s manufacturing sector. Read: Attractive package for farmers in upcoming budget He said that the incumbent government wants investors to manufacture goods for local consumers. He added that the authorities concerned do not want to rely on costly imports of consumer goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":49076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11527],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-51845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-govt-to-reduce-duties-on-raw-material-in-budget-dawood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt to reduce duties on raw material in budget: Dawood - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Multan: The government plans to reduce the cost of doing business by slashing duties on raw material and intermediary goods in the upcoming federal budget\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-reduce-duties-on-raw-material-in-budget-dawood.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt to reduce duties on raw material in budget: Dawood - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Multan: The government plans to reduce the cost of doing business by slashing duties on raw material and intermediary goods in the upcoming federal budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-reduce-duties-on-raw-material-in-budget-dawood.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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