{"id":63283,"date":"2020-03-27T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63283"},"modified":"2020-03-26T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:05:32","slug":"regulations-revised-facilitate-medica-equipment-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/regulations-revised-facilitate-medica-equipment-import.html","title":{"rendered":"SBP revises regulations to facilitate import of medical equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised and relaxed the regulations concerned with the import of medical equipment, medicines, and other ancillary materials for coronavirus treatment \u2014 a news source reported.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/japan-initiates-process-for-importing-pakistani-labour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Japan initiates process for importing Pakistani labour (opens in a new tab)\">Japan initiates process for importing Pakistani labour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central bank made the announcement in a press release.\nIt announced that it had allowed all federal and provincial government\ndepartments, hospitals in public and privates sectors, charitable\norganisations, manufacturers and commercial importers to remove the limit on import\nadvance payments and imports on open account \u2014 aimed at facilitating the import\nof medical equipments, medicines, and other related items for the coronavirus treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SBP has also allowed the banks to approve the Electronic Import Form (EIF) for the import of the equipment donated by international donor agencies and foreign governments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/savings-petroleum-import-govt-mulls-bringing-prices-down.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Savings on petroleum import; govt mulls bringing prices down (opens in a new tab)\">Savings on petroleum import; govt mulls bringing prices down<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The press release further noted that the most productive strategy\nto fight against novel\ncoronavirus involves the provision of needed equipment within in the\nrequisite time; so the central has taken these extraordinary measures in order\nto ensure that the much-needed medical equipment is imported without any\nproblems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised and relaxed the regulations concerned with the import of medical equipment, medicines, and other ancillary materials for coronavirus treatment \u2014 a news source reported.\u00a0 Read: Japan initiates process for importing Pakistani labour The central bank made the announcement in a press release. It announced that it had allowed all federal and provincial government departments, hospitals in public and privates sectors, charitable organisations, manufacturers and commercial importers to remove the limit on import advance payments and imports on open account \u2014 aimed at facilitating the import of medical equipments, medicines, and other related items for the coronavirus treatment. The SBP has also allowed the banks to approve the Electronic Import Form (EIF) for the import of the equipment donated by international donor agencies and foreign governments. Read: Savings on petroleum import; govt mulls bringing prices down The press release further noted that the most productive strategy to fight against novel coronavirus involves the provision of needed equipment within in the requisite time; so the central has taken these extraordinary measures in order to ensure that the much-needed medical equipment is imported without any problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[24353],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-sbp-revises-regulations-to-facilitate-import-of-medical-equipment","9":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Regulations revised to facilitate medical equipment import - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised and relaxed the regulations concerned with the import of medical equipment, medicines, and other\" \/>\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\/regulations-revised-facilitate-medica-equipment-import.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Regulations revised to facilitate medical equipment import - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised and relaxed the regulations concerned with the import of medical equipment, medicines, and other\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/regulations-revised-facilitate-medica-equipment-import.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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