{"id":71065,"date":"2020-10-01T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=71065"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:52:12","slug":"apmia-seeks-govt-support-to-boost-trade-activity-in-marble-granite-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/apmia-seeks-govt-support-to-boost-trade-activity-in-marble-granite-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"APMIA seeks govt support to boost trade activity in marble, granite industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad: The All Pakistan Marble Industries Association (APMIA) on Tuesday asked for support from the federal government to boost trade activity in the marble and granite industry \u2014 with the organisation claiming that the sector &#8216;has the potential to earn revenues worth billions of dollars&#8217; through exports, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/balochistan-declares-3-districts-marble-cities-attract-investors.html\">Balochistan declares 3 districts <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/balochistan-declares-3-districts-marble-cities-attract-investors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/balochistan-declares-3-districts-marble-cities-attract-investors.html\">s \u2018marble cities\u2019 to attract investors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The said appeal to the government was made during the formal meeting of the APMIA\u2019s newly-elected office bearers and committee members. APMIA Chairman Sheikh Mohammad Rizwan took the opportunity to state that the marble industry had the potential to bring in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/demand-for-pakistani-marble-in-china-increases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foreign exchange revenues<\/a> worth billions of dollars if the federal government facilitated the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-northern-bypass-to-have-marble-industry-education-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karachi Northern Bypass to have marble industry, education city<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further said that, like the tax relief given to the construction industry, the country\u2019s marble industry should also be provided with relief in sales tax. He added that this measure would make it easier for the government to collect tax from all national marble factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, former APMIA chairman Muhammad Shakeel Munir said that the marble and granite industry had enough potential to reduce unemployment in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The All Pakistan Marble Industries Association (APMIA) on Tuesday asked for support from the federal government to boost trade activity in the marble and granite industry \u2014 with the organisation claiming that the sector &#8216;has the potential to earn revenues worth billions of dollars&#8217; through exports, according to news sources. Read: Balochistan declares 3 districts as \u2018marble cities\u2019 to attract investors The said appeal to the government was made during the formal meeting of the APMIA\u2019s newly-elected office bearers and committee members. APMIA Chairman Sheikh Mohammad Rizwan took the opportunity to state that the marble industry had the potential to bring in foreign exchange revenues worth billions of dollars if the federal government facilitated the sector. Read: Karachi Northern Bypass to have marble industry, education city He further said that, like the tax relief given to the construction industry, the country\u2019s marble industry should also be provided with relief in sales tax. He added that this measure would make it easier for the government to collect tax from all national marble factories. Meanwhile, former APMIA chairman Muhammad Shakeel Munir said that the marble and granite industry had enough potential to reduce unemployment in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":71067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15013],"tags":[40626,40625,40627],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-71065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allied-industries","category-construction","tag-all-pakistan-marble-industries-association-apmia","tag-apmia-seeks-help-to-boost-trade-in-marble","tag-relief-in-sales-tax","cat-15012-id","cat-15013-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APMIA seeks help to boost trade in marble, granite industry- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The organisation claimed that the marble and granite industry sector &#039;has the potential to earn revenues worth billions of dollars&#039; 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