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• Central Association for Furniture Retailers Bovenweg 100, 3708AG Zeist, The Netherlands Tel: 00-31 (0) 30 697 3100 Fax:00-31 (0) 30 691 9751 E-mail: info@cbw.org www.cbw.org • Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) P.O.Box 30009, 3001 DA Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tel: 00-31 (0) 10 201 3434 Fax: 00-31 (0) 10 411 4081 E-mail: cbi@cbi.nl www.cbi.nl USA • AKTRIN Furniture Information Center 164 S. Main Street P.O. Box 898, High Point North Carolina 27261, USA Tel: +1 (0) 336 841 8535 Fax: +1 (0) 336 841 5435 www.aktrin.com • The Office of Consumer Goods US Department of Commerce Washington DC Tel: 202 482 5783 Fax: 202 482 3981 www.ita.doc.gov/org • Annual Survey of Manufacturers www.ita.doc.gov/td/ocg/furniture.html#manufacturing • US Industry and Trade Outlook www.yntis.gov/product/industry-trade.html • Census of manufacturers www.census.gov/epcd/www/97EC31.html, www.census.gov/ epcd/www/naics.html • Industry trade surveys www.usitc.gov/webpubs.htm • US imports and exports (of household and office furniture) www.export.gov/ocg/ furniture.htm • American Furniture Manufacturers Association (AFMA) Tel: 336 884 5000 Fax: 336 884 5303 www.afma4u.org 112 International Trade Centre
• National Home Furnishings Association (NHFA) Tel: 336 801 6100 Fax: 336 883 1195 www.nhfa.org • International Wholesale Furniture Association (IWFA) Tel: 336 884 1566 Fax: 336 884 1350 inwfa@nothstate.net • Association of Progressive Rental Organisations (APRO) Tel: 512 794 0095 Fax: 512 794 0097 www.apro-rto.com • BIFMA Grand Rapids: Office Furniture Manufacturers Association Tel: 616 285 3963 Fax: 616 285 3765 www.bifma.org International Trade Centre 113
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The Furniture Sector in Pakistan
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Acknowledgements The report was pre
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Abbreviations AFTA AHEC AKTRIN APFE
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Table of contents Acknowledgements
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Box 3.1 Multilateral discipline of
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Executive summary This study sets t
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the extent possible maintain or imp
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1 Background and objectives 1.1 EC
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2 Furniture sector in Pakistan 2.1
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On the buyer’s side, there are gl
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According to the websites of import
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Global demand for furniture in main
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suppliers, both domestic and other
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Table 2.3 Pakistani furniture expor
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Figure 2.4 Distribution structure f
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freight rates have increased and do
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Price The prices of local machinery
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Indonesia has also announced a ban
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industry itself should support effo
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various counterparts, the supplier
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Box 2.7 UK Timber Trade Federation
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Figure 2.5 Simplified example on ch
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At least 70% of the wood used in ma
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Scope of joint ventures There exist
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• With FAO’s Forest Products an
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The contact information of many of
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Box 2.10 USAID initiative in the fu
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Opportunities Major opportunities m
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pressure on the price. There appear
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Pakistan does not export this furni
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3.1.3 Functional scope The function
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Current status of efforts to libera
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3.2.2 Information flow-upwards, i.e
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Commission (EC/EU) has established
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Figure 3.3 Relevant intensity of WT
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Page 81 and 82: 3.4.2 Other countries’ access to
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Page 85 and 86: Arabian market. Here again, there i
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Page 89 and 90: 4.2 Obstacles and shortcomings - im
Page 91 and 92: Raw material recovery Raw material
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Page 99 and 100: 5.1.3 Federation of Pakistan Chambe
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Page 103 and 104: The lessons learnt here could be re
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Page 107 and 108: 6.2 Critical success factors • A
Page 109 and 110: 6.4 Global value chains 6.4.1 Poten
Page 111 and 112: Benefits All timber tends to be air
Page 113 and 114: • Optimise cutting; • Calculati
Page 115 and 116: 6.6.5 If we had US$100,000: A techn
Page 117 and 118: • To modernise such a laboratory,
Page 119 and 120: Annexes Annex A — Sources of info
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