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Table of contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations i iii Executive summary 1 Findings 1 Recommendations 2 Conclusions 4 1 Background and objectives 5 1.1 EC TRTA Programme for Pakistan 5 1.2 Five sector studies 5 1.3 Methodology 6 2 Furniture sector in Pakistan 7 2.1 The sector in general 7 2.2 An overview of existing studies, strategies and policy papers 37 2.3 SWOT analysis of Pakistani furniture companies 43 2.4 Furniture association and its role in services 45 2.5 Case stories on data collection 46 3 Implications of WTO Agreements 50 3.1 Background 50 3.2 Information on the WTO issues 53 3.3 Implications of the WTO Trade Agreements 58 3.4 Trade conditions of the Pakistani furniture sector 70 4 Obstacles and shortcomings to export 76 4.1 Obstacles and shortcomings – exporters’ opinions 76 4.2 Obstacles and shortcomings – importers’ opinions 79 5 Export services in Pakistan 87 5.1 Export service providers 87 5.2 Export services as they actually are – expressed views 91 5.3 Export services as they should be – expressed views 92 5.4 Other export services – Malaysia as example 92 v
Page 1 and 2: The Furniture Sector in Pakistan
Page 3 and 4: Acknowledgements The report was pre
Page 5: Abbreviations AFTA AHEC AKTRIN APFE
Page 9 and 10: Box 3.1 Multilateral discipline of
Page 11 and 12: Executive summary This study sets t
Page 13 and 14: the extent possible maintain or imp
Page 15 and 16: 1 Background and objectives 1.1 EC
Page 17 and 18: 2 Furniture sector in Pakistan 2.1
Page 19 and 20: On the buyer’s side, there are gl
Page 21 and 22: According to the websites of import
Page 23 and 24: Global demand for furniture in main
Page 25 and 26: suppliers, both domestic and other
Page 27 and 28: Table 2.3 Pakistani furniture expor
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Page 31 and 32: freight rates have increased and do
Page 33 and 34: Price The prices of local machinery
Page 35 and 36: Indonesia has also announced a ban
Page 37 and 38: industry itself should support effo
Page 39 and 40: various counterparts, the supplier
Page 41 and 42: Box 2.7 UK Timber Trade Federation
Page 43 and 44: Figure 2.5 Simplified example on ch
Page 45 and 46: At least 70% of the wood used in ma
Page 47 and 48: Scope of joint ventures There exist
Page 49 and 50: • With FAO’s Forest Products an
Page 51 and 52: The contact information of many of
Page 53 and 54: Box 2.10 USAID initiative in the fu
Page 55 and 56: 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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Box 3.2 Regional Trade Agreements (
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Trade Related Aspects of Intellectu
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Agreement on the application of san
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country or materially retards the e
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Relevance of the furniture sector T
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3.4.2 Other countries’ access to
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Table 3.2 Top 10 buyers of the Paki
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Arabian market. Here again, there i
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• Material from China is being us
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4.2 Obstacles and shortcomings - im
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Raw material recovery Raw material
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• Consistent policy for supportin
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A short-term but maybe a costly mea
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5 Export services in Pakistan 5.1 E
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5.1.3 Federation of Pakistan Chambe
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• Pakistan International Freight
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The lessons learnt here could be re
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6 Conclusion and recommendations 6.
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6.2 Critical success factors • A
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6.4 Global value chains 6.4.1 Poten
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Benefits All timber tends to be air
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• Optimise cutting; • Calculati
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6.6.5 If we had US$100,000: A techn
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• To modernise such a laboratory,
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Annexes Annex A — Sources of info
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• Federmobili information on the
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• National Home Furnishings Assoc
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International Trade Centre 115
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