True India singned the ITA abolished duties on IT products and their IT BPO industry went leaps but now they lag behind in manufacturing
I think that when we auctioned telecom licenses back in 2004 we should have also started local manufacture/assembly of handsets and telecom equipment as...
I have been supporter of ITA and you are right.Infact I put forward some proposals some time back
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/trump-vows-to-at-least-quadruple-us-pakistan-trade.629243/page-3#post-11687855
The only thing I said that there should be a smart tariff policy that could give us...
Back in january FBR slashed duties on the import of mobile phones
https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan-news/2020/01/importing-mobile-phones-has-just-become-86-cheaper/
This severely jolted the nascent but fast growing mobile phone assembly industry.Apparently this was done at the behest of tania...
I thought the likes of Huawei Nokia and Samsung were to come as envisioned by the EDB's Mobile phone manufacturing policy
https://fp.brecorder.com/2019/02/20190202444139/
https://www.brecorder.com/2020/03/05/577249/smartphone-policy-say-hello-to-localization/...
Well there was this news some time back
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/07/18/local-laptop-manufacturing-on-cards/
At the end it is about a balance.Remember the ITA Which allows for duty free import of various IT equipment to develop the IT sector.Pakistan's software and IT industry...
IEEE Registration Authority gives out Unique Identifiers for every electronic device manufactured.maybe PTA can use that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Registration_Authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizationally_unique_identifier