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Table 4.1 Market Information System: Basic questions Questions What products are to be selected? What type of info is collected? How frequent is collection? From where to get info? Who collects and disseminates it? What media are used for dissemination? Who keeps the master data? How is the MIS sustained? Possible solutions Hand-carved Sheesham up-market furniture, other products Prices, favoured articles, style and finish, quality, new designs Monthly/quarterly/half-a-year Trade fairs, shopkeepers, retail chains, tourists and foreign experts, trade and home decoration media, Internet sources Market Information System developer (organised by ITC), then a local counterpart trained for the task Notice boards, newspapers, mass media (generic articles), telephone (short text message), e-mail/Internet Industry Association or representative, helped by ITC A user free system established, exchange of info with other MISs 86 International Trade Centre
5 Export services in Pakistan 5.1 Export service providers 5.1.1 Trade Development Authority of Pakistan - TDAP In late 2006 the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) (www.tdap.gov.pk) succeeded the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) as the primary agency engaged in the promotion and boosting of export. Since EPB's inception in 1963 as an attached department of the Ministry of Commerce, it has continued to facilitate exporters in overcoming difficulties faced by them on the supply and demand side of exports. On the demand side, TDAP helps exporters to participate in exhibitions abroad and sends delegations to export markets with a view to exploring new markets and developing the traditional markets. On the supply side, TDAP has established over 32 training institutes and projects in various export sectors to train necessary manpower that can manage the export trade and industry professionally, meeting the requirements of the export markets. Export promotional activities are carried out in co-ordination with trade bodies at home and Pakistan's trade missions abroad. TDAP has its head office in Karachi, the city which is also a main industrial and commercial centre and a major export outlet of the country. TDAP has a staff of around 800 of which close to 600 are permanent. Services provided by TDAP are as follows • Export facilitation committee • Resolving problems in exports • Simplification of procedures • Export procedures handbook • Establishing buyer-seller contacts • Fax on demand and the website • Interface with chambers/trade associations • Settlements of trade disputes Regulatory services include the following • Formulation of proposals for the trade policy • Implementation of the trade policy • Textile quota management • Registration of importers/exporters • Registration of export contracts • Determination of minimum export prices • Issuance of GSP certificates Functions of TDAP are listed below • Marketing - Market Research - Fairs and Exhibitions - local and international - Trade delegations International Trade Centre 87
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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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Page 57 and 58: pressure on the price. There appear
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Page 61 and 62: 3.1.3 Functional scope The function
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Page 91 and 92: Raw material recovery Raw material
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Page 109 and 110: 6.4 Global value chains 6.4.1 Poten
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Page 119 and 120: Annexes Annex A — Sources of info
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