{"id":2739,"date":"2025-04-05T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2025-04-05T00:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T00:01:55","slug":"ejaz-proposes-free-trade-agreement-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"Ejaz proposes free trade agreement with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former caretaker federal minister for commerce Gohar Ejaz has proposed that Pakistan and the United States begin negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), suggesting that open market access and tariff reductions would be mutually beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Ejaz said that Pakistan could allow duty-free imports of American goods as part of a broader trade agreement, while also seeking cuts in tariffs and taxes imposed on Pakistani exports to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Just a day before Ejaz&#8217;s statement, Trump imposed a baseline 10% tariff on nearly all US imports and levied even steeper duties on key trade partners &#8211; including a 29% tariff on Pakistani goods. He accused Islamabad of slapping 58% tariffs on American products.<\/p>\n<p>The former caretaker minister also noted that one of the major objections from Washington has been the high tariff barriers Pakistan maintains on American products. &#8220;The United States has consistently complained that Pakistan does not allow its products free access to local markets,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former caretaker federal minister for commerce Gohar Ejaz has proposed that Pakistan and the United States begin negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), suggesting that open market access and tariff reductions would be mutually beneficial. In a statement, Ejaz said that Pakistan could allow duty-free imports of American goods as part of a broader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}