{"id":52709,"date":"2019-06-15T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52709"},"modified":"2019-06-14T18:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:25:59","slug":"trade-with-pakistan-reached-all-time-high-in-2018-us-congress-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/trade-with-pakistan-reached-all-time-high-in-2018-us-congress-told.html","title":{"rendered":"Trade with Pakistan reached all-time high in 2018; US Congress told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The Congress has been told by the Trump administration that bilateral trade between Pakistan and the United States reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a news source.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/us-businessmen-asked-to-invest-in-cpec.html\">US businessmen asked to invest in CPEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington also lauded and endorsed the fact that Pakistan\u2019s federal budget for 2019-20 emphasised on building an economic relationship \u2018through trade rather than aid\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement was made at a hearing on the State Department\u2019s 2020 budget requests for the Central and South Asian regions.<\/p>\n<p>Alice G Wells, Senior State Department Official for South and Central Asian Affairs, brought this change to attention as a written statement to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee for Asia, the Pacific, and Non-proliferation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rise-in-remittances-recorded.html\">Rise in remittances recorded<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She revealed that in 2018, bilateral trade between the two countries reached an all-time high of over USD 6.6 billion, with the trade deficit sinking to 2%, or USD 782 million. In addition, US exports to Pakistan also rose by 4% to USD 2.9 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The Congress has been told by the Trump administration that bilateral trade between Pakistan and the United States reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a news source. Read: US businessmen asked to invest in CPEC Washington also lauded and endorsed the fact that Pakistan\u2019s federal budget for 2019-20 emphasised on building an economic relationship \u2018through trade rather than aid\u2019. This announcement was made at a hearing on the State Department\u2019s 2020 budget requests for the Central and South Asian regions. Alice G Wells, Senior State Department Official for South and Central Asian Affairs, brought this change to attention as a written statement to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee for Asia, the Pacific, and Non-proliferation. Read: Rise in remittances recorded She revealed that in 2018, bilateral trade between the two countries reached an all-time high of over USD 6.6 billion, with the trade deficit sinking to 2%, or USD 782 million. In addition, US exports to Pakistan also rose by 4% to USD 2.9 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":52728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11906],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-trade-with-pakistan-reached-all-time-high-in-2018"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trade with Pakistan reached all-time high in 2018; US Congress told - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Washington: The Congress has been told by the Trump administration that bilateral trade between Pakistan and the United States reached an all-time high in\" \/>\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\/trade-with-pakistan-reached-all-time-high-in-2018-us-congress-told.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trade with Pakistan reached all-time high in 2018; 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