*ISLAMABAD – A high level duo lead by Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan presiding overproceedings addressing a press conference today, Thursday announced that313 Pakistani products will be declared ‘duty-free’ by China.*

A press conference conducted by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister forInformation and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan and Advisor to PrimeMinister on commerce Abdul Razak Dawood in a press briefing expressedhappiness on the successful arrival of stranded Pakistani prisoners inMalaysia.

315 prisoners of Pakistani descent were freed from Malaysian prison aftercompletion of their jail terms.

Taking over proceedings Dawood expanded on trade and business relatedmatters of the State, saying: There has been a lot of talk about ourexport’s suffering and people question related to our export figures quiteoften, I would like to clear the air on our exports.”

“We must take a look at the global trade, global trade has suffered a 3percent decline due to the US-China ‘trade war’, due to global tradedecline our primary target markets have reduced prices on the products weare importing, prices have been reduced up to 7.2%.”

Adding further, Dawood said that there is no significant change in theexport figures from last year, “where global trade has suffered a 3%deficit Pakistan has maintained it’s export figures to that of last yearwhich is a positive indication, a reasonably good performance.”