Preliminary Analysis of Pak-China FTA Phase II

About the Authors

Nazish Afraz

Economist & Public Policy Consultant

Nadia Mukhtar

Faculty of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Zara Salman

Chief Executive Officer, CDPR

Sharmin Arif

Communications Associate, Consortium of Development Policy Research (CDPR)

Hasaan Khawar

Public Policy and International Development Expert

Ijaz Nabi

Executive Director, CDPR and Country Director, IGC Pakistan

Naved Hamid

Director, Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) and Professor of Economics, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan

Dania Nasir

Senior Associate Corporate Sustainability, Zero Point Partners

Muhammad Umer Zahid

PhD Candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut and former Research Assistant at the University of Oxford

  • Posted On: September 18, 2019

The second phase of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA2) spanning 2019 – 2024 was finalized between the two countries in early 2019 and entered its implementation phase from January 1, 2020. Negotiated well, CPFTA2 could significantly improve Pakistani exporters’ access to the USD 2 trillion Chinese import market and thus help address the country’s ballooning trade deficit. To understand how CPFTA2 can help Pakistan’s exporters meet that objective, Pakistan Business Council (PBC) commissioned the Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) to undertake a preliminary assessment of China’s tariff provisions in CPFTA2.

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Preliminary Analysis of Pak-China FTA Phase II
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