Taxes restrict poultry exports from Pakistan

As high taxes restrict Pakistan's poultry exports to the Gulf countries, Brazil has a share of the Pakistani EXPORT market. For example, Cameroon has already allowed the import of Brazilian poultry.

Pakistan's poultry industry says it is seeking reimbursement of taxes and duties paid on ingredients and medicines imported by poultry feed manufacturers. The poultry farmers said in a statement that this will greatly help the sector to enter the international market. The Express Tribune reports that exports are currently "haphazard and insignificant" as the industry is uncompetitive compared to Brazil, notes Salman Tariq, DIRECTOR of a leading poultry processor, saying poultry products in Pakistan are 20-25% more expensive than poultry products. from Brazil. .

“This regulatory environment is not conducive to export growth at all, and we have been discussing with the Ministry of Commerce and the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan a strategy to provide subsidies to poultry processors to make us competitive with Brazilian products in the GCC,” he says. - We are not asking the government to give us a fixed subsidy, but instead emphasize that poultry feed manufacturers pay huge amounts in duties and taxes on imports of poultry feed ingredients and medicines. If the government cuts these duties and taxes, processors can easily target the Gulf countries and our exports could increase because the products we produce are of high quality.”