FAISALABAD: The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) organized an orientation session on Pakistan Single Window (PSW) with a view to raise technical awareness about the overall operations of this important facility and provides an opportunity of better understanding of the system.

Speaking on the occasion, the domain officer Muhammad Ahmad stated that PSW portal has been designed to fully facilitate business engaged in cross border trade by reducing time, cost and complexity in addition to improving the quality of experience for all stakeholders with primary focus on ease of doing business. It also supports other Government departments in adopting an Integrated Risk Management (IRM) approach for efficient enforcement of trade related controls. He informed that the implementation of PSW has enabled Pakistan to achieve compliance with WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement besides helping our country to unlock its potential in becoming a trade hub. He briefly enlightened the core aspects of PSW through a comprehensive presentation. PSW’s technical team joined the session through video link and answered different questions raised by the participants.

Earlier, PTEA’s senior leader Ameer Ahmad appreciated the PSW initiative, introduced by the government which has certainly helped in minimizing human interaction and reduce chances of harassment and corruption. However, he stressed that the need to promptly rectify numerous glitches in the system and simplify procedures in order to achieve the prime objective of PSW facility which was to ensure ease of doing business.

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