Pakistan & Uzbekistan Trade

Maj Gohar Zia ( Retired)

• Member Board of Experts Center for Global and Strategic Studies

• CEO – Maxtelz Logistics Services ( Private ) Limited

• CEO – Kitchen Express

• Providing Business and Logistics Solutions to

• Kazakhstan Business outfits for imports and exports

• Uzbekistan Business outfits for imports and exports

• Tajikistan Business outfits for imports and exports

• Member for Business Pakistan Economic Forum

• Member Pakistan Business Forum

• Provided Strategic Logistics Partner in Pakistan for Korean Trade Agency ( KOTRA)
Pakistan Uzbekistan Trade

Asian High Way – 7

Trade Infrastructure
• Sea Ports
• Karachi Port Trust
• Port Muhammad Bin Qasim
• Gawader Port ( Operating for Afghan Transit Trade )
• Ketti Bender ( No operational for CPEC)
• Air Ports ( Main International operations )
• Karachi ( International )
• Lahore ( International )
• Islamabad ( International )
• Land Routes in Pakistan
• Three corridors
• Western
• Central
• Southern
 Road Route – CPEC

Corridors of Land Routes

• Western Corridor
• Eastern Corridor
• Central Corridor
The Route – The Asian Highway
Trade Routes
• The 2010 agreement supersedes the 1965 Afghanistan
Transit Trade Agreement ( ATTA )

• Afghanistan has the rights to import duty free goods to

Afghanistan but Afghanistan did not allow Pakistan To
access Central Asian Market

• 1995 Quadrilateral Traffic in Transit Agreement ( QTTA )

signed in 2004
• China
• Pakistan
• Kazakhstan and
• Kyrgyzstan

• Present Update
• Route is being made feasible to use the QTTA
 Exports
Major Export
Commodity USD
(Mlns)
Pharmaceutical Products and Herbal Medicines 40
Mandarine 30
Mango 3
Potato 30
Sugar 4
Jujube 8
Onion 21
Surgical Instruments and Gloves 36
Bleaching Clay 35
Tomato 17
Banana 14
Blades 4
 Exports
Minor Export
Commodity USD
(Mlns)

Match Box 0.5

Frozen Meat ( Through Afghan Buyers ) 3.0

Crockery and Cutlery 1.1

Garments and Towels 1.2

Construction Material 1.3

Packing Material 0.4

Leather Garments 1.3

 Pakistan
Imports
Commodity USD
(Mlns)
Sulphur 20

Zinc Ingnots 27

Cotton Yarn 29

Lioctas 4

Daal Moong 20

Kidney Beans 18

MISC 13
 • Pakistan to Torkham

• Pakistani Trucks to Torkham

• Load upto 50 Tons in special cases to 80 ton

Transportation
• Cross Stuffing is done on Afghan Trucks

• Goods then move on Afghan documents

• From Pakistan to Afghanistan few bonded carriers are transporting

goods till Kabul

In Afghanistan

• Road Load Limit 37 Tons

• Addition Charges

• Documentation Charges

• Transit Charges

• Taliban Tax

• Road Tax
 • At Uzbekistan
Transportation
• Goods are cross stuffed at Heritan and then loaded in Uzbekistan
Trucks

• Documents are same

• Load limit is 24 ton

• Travelling Time

• Karachi to Torkham 3 x days

• Torkham to Heritan 2 x days

• Heritan to Tashkent 2 days

• Heritan to Shymkent 3 days

 Banking Issue

EXPORT IMPORT

• Pakistan has one associate for Banking Representing National Bank but non operational
• For transactions third party International Banking is being used causes increase in cost and time
• Most of the transactions is being done through Standard Chartered Bank or JP Morgan USA
 Transit Trade

• Pakistan is the easiest and the cheapest route for Uzbekistan

• Pakistan will be benefitted
• Pakistan Loand Pakistan has one associate for Banking Representing National Bank but non operational
• For transactions third party International Banking is being used causes increase in cost and time
• Most of the transactions is being done through Standard Chartered Bank or JP Morgan USA
 The Start of Uzbekistan Textile Industry through
Export Processing Zone

D
C Cotton and Cotton

B Prep desired Fabric

Yarn already held

A Cut and Stitch

Modern and Cultural
and Dying

Finish, Pack & Sell

Own Brand Name
 Point to start

IMPORT 70% Finished but

Raw Packed

Finish, Sell
and Export 30% EXPORT
Thank You