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Pakistan: Sugar export quota increased and extended with subsidy; regulatory duty lifted on potato and imposed on sugar imports (December 2014)

Announcement

24 Dec 2014

In December 2014, the government of Pakistan announced an altered export quota, a change in import duties on sugar and potato and extended a subsidy on sugar exports.

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Number of interventions

5

3 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

2 liberalising

List of interventions

2 in force

Implementation date

25 Dec 2014

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Import tariff In force

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of Pakistan lifted a regulatory duty of 25% valid on potato imports.

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Implementation date

24 Dec 2014

Revocation date:

15 Jul 2015

Export quota

On 24 December 2014, Pakistan's Economic Coordination Committee increased the sugar export quota from 500,000 tonnes, announced in November 2014, to 650,000 metric tonnes. Also, the validity of the qu...

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Implementation date

24 Dec 2014

Revocation date:

15 Jul 2015

Export subsidy

The Economic Coordination Committee also approved an inland freight subsidy of Rs. 2 per kg. (~USD 0.02) and a cash subsidy of Rs. 8 per kg. (~USD 0.08) for the sugar exports. The total subsidy is es...

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Implementation date

24 Dec 2014

Revocation date:

16 Jun 2015

Import tariff

The Economic Coordination Committee extended a 20% regulatory duty imposed on the imports of jaggery and white crystalline sugar to the imports of raw and beet sugar as well. The duty was imposed on 1...

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Implementation date

24 Dec 2014

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Export tax In force

The ECC approved a minimum export price of USD 450 per metric tonne on exports of sugar to Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics.

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