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Brazil once a poor country like Pakistan, now top meat and egg exporter: Imran Khan is not wrong!

If you are poor, you have to work hard in right direction for few decades like china did and India is doing. If you have misplace priority wishful thinking , boastful population, you can not grow. Poor people's money is spent for armed forces much more than the requirement. How can that country go. First put your priority right.

Says a person who is hosting world largest poor people and is the biggest importers of arms ...

So by which logic we are supposed to sey our priority based on recommendation of our enemy state ... whose sole dream is to destroy our country ...

Last but not the least we are working hard but we dont need a certificate of the same from you ... so rather than commenting on our military expense ask your gov to divert military budget to toilets and food of your army men which keep on complaining about food on internet ...
 
Says a person who is hosting world largest poor people and is the biggest importers of arms ...

So by which logic we are supposed to sey our priority based on recommendation of our enemy state ... whose sole dream is to destroy our country ...

Last but not the least we are working hard but we dont need a certificate of the same from you ... so rather than commenting on our military expense ask your gov to divert military budget to toilets and food of your army men which keep on complaining about food on internet ...

Read some wb , IMF material to check where the most numbers of poor lives. Check how much percentage of GDP India spends on defense. Don't read haq musing too much.
 
If you are poor, you have to work hard in right direction for few decades like china did and India is doing. If you have misplace priority wishful thinking , boastful population, you can not grow. Poor people's money is spent for armed forces much more than the requirement. How can that country go. First put your priority right.
sense coming from across da border. i like it.. mostly i don’t expect goodwill come from other side of the borders. lol
 
Read some wb , IMF material to check where the most numbers of poor lives. Check how much percentage of GDP India spends on defense. Don't read haq musing too much.

Congratz you just beat nigeria ... and thats your newspaper not mine

https://www.google.com.pk/url?sa=t&...GwI_vu409WGHHE6Ba&ampcf=1&cshid=1543845292652

Furthermore dont quote the figures of your choice ... you have the world most poor people in the world and you are the biggest importer so if anyone needs to change its u ...

With GDP per Cpaita (PPP) of 7,174 dollars you are still on 122 in world
 
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It's not just Brazil. China, US, India are also exporting eggs and cattle worth billions of dollars each year. When IK outlined to do the same, entire nation laughs.
Problem was never with the leadership. It always with the brainless, low IQ, hadharam people waiting for Aladins magical lamp.

It’s not just meat...it could be anything. We need innovative ideas. Just look at Israel growing jojoba plants in desert with ocean water. In few years they will be the 2nd largest jojoba oil exporter in the world.
It’s not a rocket science..... We have huge barren land in Balochistan that can be used for farming.
 
The Rise of Big Meat: Brazil’s Extractive Industry

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Introduction: Brazil’s Rise to the Top of the Global Meat Complex
Brazil is the world’s leading exporter of soybeans; the second largest exporter of maize; and the world’s largest beef trader, exporting more than 20 percent of the world’s beef (Figures 1 and 2). It has overtaken the United States to become the biggest exporter of poultry in the world, close to 39 percent of total global exports. With China drastically increasing its pork imports in the last two years, Brazil has also stepped in to meet this demand. The massive expansion in production has had dramatic impacts on Brazilians linked to the supply chain and on Brazil’s prized environment, and has additionally made Brazil increasingly dependent on these commodities to maintain a trade surplus.

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Becoming a leader of the global meat complex has come with a stark increase in the concentration of power to a handful of transnational corporations (TNCs) at every step of the Brazilian meat production chain. This has been achieved in a short span of time—since the turn of this century—and consolidated in just the last ten years.

As Figure 3 illustrates, six of the nine largest exporting companies in 2014 were grain traders and meat packers. The other three, Vale, Petrobras and Embraer, are mining, oil and aeronautical industry giants, respectively. The rise of the meat industry has come with the help of the Brazilian government.

Brazil’s “National Champions” and the role of the Brazilian National Development Bank
From 2007 to 2013, the Brazilian National Development Bank (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social[BNDES]) implemented the so-called National Champions policy. The idea was to select Brazilian exporting companies and transform them into large transnational corporations that bring home large revenues. The beneficiaries, which included some of the largest Brazilian meatpacking corporations as well as oil and mining corporations, absorbed two-thirds of the allocated BNDES resources. These “champions” included JBS-Friboi (known globally as JBS), Marfrig and Brasil Foods (BRF). These companies received large volumes of resources, not only through subsidized loans, but also through the purchasing of debentures and company shares through BNDES’s investment arm, BNDES Participações (BNDESPar). For instance, BNDESPar owns close to 25 percent of JBS’s capital while the Brazilian public bank Caixa Econômica Federal owns 10 percent.

Frequent mergers and acquisitions and consolidation across several meat segments (beef, pork, poultry, etc.) and other parts of the value chain (feed, additives) are key to the meat industry’s strategy in increasing profits. In this way, the companies used a large portion of BNDES resources to swallow up small businesses. They continued to rapidly amass power through further mergers and acquisition activities in key meat producing and consuming countries.

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Brazil’s trade policy already contributes to a path of dependency on exporting land-based, natural resource intensive commodities and importing much more expensive, value-added products with a high technology content. BNDES’ use of public resources to exacerbate this trend makes little sense to many Brazilian civil society organizations (CSOs). While the National Champions policy has delivered massive profits to chief executives and shareholders of major corporations, many feel that taxpayers have gained little from large sums of public money being diverted to these large conglomerates.4 Instead, their dramatic increase in economic and political might has enabled them to operate above the law. For instance, last year, JBS chairman Joseley Batista was charged with corruption by Brazil’s independent public prosecutor in connection to JBS’ holding company, J&F Investimentos SA. In February of this year, federal prosecutors mandated that Batista’s assets be frozen in connection to fraud related to J&F’s involvement with state owned pension funds.5 Things continued to get worse in the course of the year (see Tainted meat and reputations).

JBS
JBS’ value jumped from USD 1 billion in 2004 to USD 34 billion in 2014, as it expanded from beef to poultry and other products.6 JBS now boasts of owning 340 operations that produce products ranging from meat and leather to biodiesel and metal packaging and cleaning.7 It is the world’s largest exporter of meat, selling to over 150 countries. In the U.S., it is the leading processor of beef, pork and lamb and the second largest poultry producer; it is also the leading beef producer in Canada and the largest cattle-feeder in the world.8 It additionally has operations in Argentina, Australia, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay.

JBS, in particular, has mastered the art of growth through mergers and acquisitions. In 2013, JBS acquired Seara, the second largest chicken and pork processing company in Brazil. Previously, Marfrig had bought it from Cargill in 2009. In 2015, JBS bought Cargill’s largest pork facility in the U.S., and in Europe, it acquired Moy Park, one of the largest European poultry and processed food facilities that belonged to Marfrig.9 In Brazil, it also acquired the French subsidiary Frangosul (owned by Doux) and the U.S. subsidiary Tyson Brazil (from Tyson Foods).10 JBS’ expansion into other exporting countries has allowed the company to avoid food safety restrictions imposed on Brazilian exports—also known as “non-tariff barriers” or sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) restrictions. Frequent outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease and other zoonotic diseases in Brazil continue to impose barriers on Brazilian exports. As JBS’s foreign investments have grown, such as in the U.S. and Australia, it has allowed the company 50 percent of the world market that would have otherwise remained closed had it remained only in Brazil.

BRF
Corporate concentration in the Brazilian poultry processing sector increased significantly when BNDES financed the merger of two Brazilian giants in the meat processing and frozen foods sector, Sadia and Perdigão, in 2009. Pension funds of two large state enterprises—Petrobras Social Security Foundation (12.49 percent) and the Banco do Brasil Employees’ Pension Fund (10.94 percent)—are BRF’s largest shareholders.

The company is now the largest international exporter of chicken (20 percent of global exports and nine percent of global trade in animal protein) and the seventh largest food corporation in the world, according to its annual report.16Unlike JBS, BRF’s key strategy entails the acquisition of small companies in emerging economies that have significant potential for increasing meat consumption.

BRF owns Plusfood in Europe—a poultry processor with plants in England and the Netherlands that sells to major supermarkets in Europe.17 In 2014, the company expanded its processing plants in Argentina, which now produce poultry, margarine, cheese and beef.18

Its recent acquisitions in the Middle East and Turkey have also allowed it to become a major processor of halal meat for Islamic markets. In January, BRF consolidated its production of halal meat destined for Islamic countries under a new subsidiary in Dubai called OneFoods. This includes transferring the assets of eight slaughterhouses in Brazil that must export using halal production standards along with grain storage facilities, chicken hatcheries and feedmills.19 One of the first actions of this new subsidiary was to acquire a 60 percent stake in Banvit, Turkey’s largest poultry processing company. The Qatar Investment Authority (a Qatari Sovereign Wealth Fund) will own the remaining 40 percent.20

Marfrig
Marfrig states that it is the second largest beef operator in Brazil, the largest beef processing company in Uruguay, and the largest importer of meat in Chile. With a physical presence in 12 countries and its processed products in over a 100, the company boasts of processing up to 3.8 million head of cattle and 2.3 million head of sheep a year.21 Through its ownership of Keystone—one of the largest international suppliers of industrialized foods to large restaurant and retail chains such as McDonald’s, Subway and Wendy’s—it also processes 250 million birds and manufactures 580 thousand tons of food every year.22

Conclusion
The Brazilian government’s initiative to create National Champions has undoubtedly helped JBS, BRF and other corporations rise to the top of the global meat complex. It is also clear that this support has led to enormous profits for the CEOs and shareholders of these companies. From an economic development perspective, there is no compelling evidence that the capital used to acquire meat processing companies abroad and the resulting profits has benefited Brazilian citizens. Moreover, as we shall see in the following sections, the rest of the Brazilian population—as well as others around the globe—have been forced to bear the social and environmental costs of their rise
https://www.iatp.org/the-rise-of-big-meat

If Brazilian government can achieve all that in a few years with state sponsored capitalism, why not Pakistan? What's wrong with this nation laughing at its future?
@BHarwana @Horus @war&peace @Zibago @koolio @Canuck786 @Tameem @Proudpakistaniguy @Mugen @MBT 3000 @third eye @GHALIB

Good informative article ... poultry and beef is very visible in ME.
'SADIA' is one of the famous and leading, frozen poultry products in ME.
 
The Rise of Big Meat: Brazil’s Extractive Industry

shutterstock_16297150_CMYK_150.jpg

Introduction: Brazil’s Rise to the Top of the Global Meat Complex
Brazil is the world’s leading exporter of soybeans; the second largest exporter of maize; and the world’s largest beef trader, exporting more than 20 percent of the world’s beef (Figures 1 and 2). It has overtaken the United States to become the biggest exporter of poultry in the world, close to 39 percent of total global exports. With China drastically increasing its pork imports in the last two years, Brazil has also stepped in to meet this demand. The massive expansion in production has had dramatic impacts on Brazilians linked to the supply chain and on Brazil’s prized environment, and has additionally made Brazil increasingly dependent on these commodities to maintain a trade surplus.

Figure-01%404x-100.jpg
Figure-02%404x-100.jpg
Figure-03%404x-100_0.jpg


Becoming a leader of the global meat complex has come with a stark increase in the concentration of power to a handful of transnational corporations (TNCs) at every step of the Brazilian meat production chain. This has been achieved in a short span of time—since the turn of this century—and consolidated in just the last ten years.

As Figure 3 illustrates, six of the nine largest exporting companies in 2014 were grain traders and meat packers. The other three, Vale, Petrobras and Embraer, are mining, oil and aeronautical industry giants, respectively. The rise of the meat industry has come with the help of the Brazilian government.

Brazil’s “National Champions” and the role of the Brazilian National Development Bank
From 2007 to 2013, the Brazilian National Development Bank (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social[BNDES]) implemented the so-called National Champions policy. The idea was to select Brazilian exporting companies and transform them into large transnational corporations that bring home large revenues. The beneficiaries, which included some of the largest Brazilian meatpacking corporations as well as oil and mining corporations, absorbed two-thirds of the allocated BNDES resources. These “champions” included JBS-Friboi (known globally as JBS), Marfrig and Brasil Foods (BRF). These companies received large volumes of resources, not only through subsidized loans, but also through the purchasing of debentures and company shares through BNDES’s investment arm, BNDES Participações (BNDESPar). For instance, BNDESPar owns close to 25 percent of JBS’s capital while the Brazilian public bank Caixa Econômica Federal owns 10 percent.

Frequent mergers and acquisitions and consolidation across several meat segments (beef, pork, poultry, etc.) and other parts of the value chain (feed, additives) are key to the meat industry’s strategy in increasing profits. In this way, the companies used a large portion of BNDES resources to swallow up small businesses. They continued to rapidly amass power through further mergers and acquisition activities in key meat producing and consuming countries.

Figure-04%404x-100.jpg


Brazil’s trade policy already contributes to a path of dependency on exporting land-based, natural resource intensive commodities and importing much more expensive, value-added products with a high technology content. BNDES’ use of public resources to exacerbate this trend makes little sense to many Brazilian civil society organizations (CSOs). While the National Champions policy has delivered massive profits to chief executives and shareholders of major corporations, many feel that taxpayers have gained little from large sums of public money being diverted to these large conglomerates.4 Instead, their dramatic increase in economic and political might has enabled them to operate above the law. For instance, last year, JBS chairman Joseley Batista was charged with corruption by Brazil’s independent public prosecutor in connection to JBS’ holding company, J&F Investimentos SA. In February of this year, federal prosecutors mandated that Batista’s assets be frozen in connection to fraud related to J&F’s involvement with state owned pension funds.5 Things continued to get worse in the course of the year (see Tainted meat and reputations).

JBS
JBS’ value jumped from USD 1 billion in 2004 to USD 34 billion in 2014, as it expanded from beef to poultry and other products.6 JBS now boasts of owning 340 operations that produce products ranging from meat and leather to biodiesel and metal packaging and cleaning.7 It is the world’s largest exporter of meat, selling to over 150 countries. In the U.S., it is the leading processor of beef, pork and lamb and the second largest poultry producer; it is also the leading beef producer in Canada and the largest cattle-feeder in the world.8 It additionally has operations in Argentina, Australia, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay.

JBS, in particular, has mastered the art of growth through mergers and acquisitions. In 2013, JBS acquired Seara, the second largest chicken and pork processing company in Brazil. Previously, Marfrig had bought it from Cargill in 2009. In 2015, JBS bought Cargill’s largest pork facility in the U.S., and in Europe, it acquired Moy Park, one of the largest European poultry and processed food facilities that belonged to Marfrig.9 In Brazil, it also acquired the French subsidiary Frangosul (owned by Doux) and the U.S. subsidiary Tyson Brazil (from Tyson Foods).10 JBS’ expansion into other exporting countries has allowed the company to avoid food safety restrictions imposed on Brazilian exports—also known as “non-tariff barriers” or sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) restrictions. Frequent outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease and other zoonotic diseases in Brazil continue to impose barriers on Brazilian exports. As JBS’s foreign investments have grown, such as in the U.S. and Australia, it has allowed the company 50 percent of the world market that would have otherwise remained closed had it remained only in Brazil.

BRF
Corporate concentration in the Brazilian poultry processing sector increased significantly when BNDES financed the merger of two Brazilian giants in the meat processing and frozen foods sector, Sadia and Perdigão, in 2009. Pension funds of two large state enterprises—Petrobras Social Security Foundation (12.49 percent) and the Banco do Brasil Employees’ Pension Fund (10.94 percent)—are BRF’s largest shareholders.

The company is now the largest international exporter of chicken (20 percent of global exports and nine percent of global trade in animal protein) and the seventh largest food corporation in the world, according to its annual report.16Unlike JBS, BRF’s key strategy entails the acquisition of small companies in emerging economies that have significant potential for increasing meat consumption.

BRF owns Plusfood in Europe—a poultry processor with plants in England and the Netherlands that sells to major supermarkets in Europe.17 In 2014, the company expanded its processing plants in Argentina, which now produce poultry, margarine, cheese and beef.18

Its recent acquisitions in the Middle East and Turkey have also allowed it to become a major processor of halal meat for Islamic markets. In January, BRF consolidated its production of halal meat destined for Islamic countries under a new subsidiary in Dubai called OneFoods. This includes transferring the assets of eight slaughterhouses in Brazil that must export using halal production standards along with grain storage facilities, chicken hatcheries and feedmills.19 One of the first actions of this new subsidiary was to acquire a 60 percent stake in Banvit, Turkey’s largest poultry processing company. The Qatar Investment Authority (a Qatari Sovereign Wealth Fund) will own the remaining 40 percent.20

Marfrig
Marfrig states that it is the second largest beef operator in Brazil, the largest beef processing company in Uruguay, and the largest importer of meat in Chile. With a physical presence in 12 countries and its processed products in over a 100, the company boasts of processing up to 3.8 million head of cattle and 2.3 million head of sheep a year.21 Through its ownership of Keystone—one of the largest international suppliers of industrialized foods to large restaurant and retail chains such as McDonald’s, Subway and Wendy’s—it also processes 250 million birds and manufactures 580 thousand tons of food every year.22

Conclusion
The Brazilian government’s initiative to create National Champions has undoubtedly helped JBS, BRF and other corporations rise to the top of the global meat complex. It is also clear that this support has led to enormous profits for the CEOs and shareholders of these companies. From an economic development perspective, there is no compelling evidence that the capital used to acquire meat processing companies abroad and the resulting profits has benefited Brazilian citizens. Moreover, as we shall see in the following sections, the rest of the Brazilian population—as well as others around the globe—have been forced to bear the social and environmental costs of their rise
https://www.iatp.org/the-rise-of-big-meat

If Brazilian government can achieve all that in a few years with state sponsored capitalism, why not Pakistan? What's wrong with this nation laughing at its future?
@BHarwana @Horus @war&peace @Zibago @koolio @Canuck786 @Tameem @Proudpakistaniguy @Mugen @MBT 3000 @third eye @GHALIB

brazil has huge amount of agricultural land - much more than Pakistan
 
Brazil is also on the wrong end of sustainability issues (e.g., rain forest depletion). There are definitely things to learn from Brazil (e.g., aircraft design, manufacturing, supply chain development, etc), but I would be wary about agriculture exports in general. Yes, it helps, but sustainability/over-burdening the natural ecosystem and pricing-out domestic markets are two major risks with leaning on agriculture exports.

We need to shift towards valuable manufacturing (i.e., export things in global demand, like auto parts) to drive both export volume and value -- the latter's critical. We cannot be stuck it one level, but keep moving up in terms of high -value technologies.

But for now, the starting point should be to enter genuine auto manufacturing (not assembly) -- we have a market the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese like, we need to force them to start exporting from Pakistan if they intend to sell to Pakistanis. Likewise, we should work to boost our pharmaceutical industry and also enter circuit manufacturing, wires, consumer electronics, etc.
 
But for now, the starting point should be to enter genuine auto manufacturing (not assembly) -- we have a market the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese like, we need to force them to start exporting from Pakistan if they intend to sell to Pakistanis. Likewise, we should work to boost our pharmaceutical industry and also enter circuit manufacturing.

good luck with that
 
Brazil is also on the wrong end of sustainability issues (e.g., rain forest depletion). There are definitely things to learn from Brazil (e.g., aircraft design, manufacturing, supply chain development, etc), but I would be wary about agriculture exports in general. Yes, it helps, but sustainability/over-burdening the natural ecosystem and pricing-out domestic markets are two major risks with leaning on agriculture exports.

We need to shift towards valuable manufacturing (i.e., export things in global demand, like auto parts) to drive both export volume and value -- the latter's critical. We cannot be stuck it one level, but keep moving up in terms of high -value technologies.

But for now, the starting point should be to enter genuine auto manufacturing (not assembly) -- we have a market the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese like, we need to force them to start exporting from Pakistan if they intend to sell to Pakistanis. Likewise, we should work to boost our pharmaceutical industry and also enter circuit manufacturing, wires, consumer electronics, etc.

It is very difficult to "force" other country to import, I mean how do you even go about implementing it?

It makes more sense to subsidize your industry. Subsidizing policy is a god given right to all developing countries, East Asian countries all does it and have success from it. No one would point finger at Pakistan for it.

One needs to be smart about subsidy though since the money comes straight from your treasury. You can identify the area where Pakistan is capable of reaching parity with the world say within 5 years, then you focus all fire power to that one sector to guarantee succeed.

The end game is to secure one piece of the global supply chain, say the Hard disk supply chain in Thailand. Thailand itself didn't even develop any of the technology, They just provided very friendly policy to attract industry, now the HD supply chain is stuck in Thailand like glue, they can't even move away even if they'd wanted to.
 
Brazil is also on the wrong end of sustainability issues (e.g., rain forest depletion). There are definitely things to learn from Brazil (e.g., aircraft design, manufacturing, supply chain development, etc), but I would be wary about agriculture exports in general. Yes, it helps, but sustainability/over-burdening the natural ecosystem and pricing-out domestic markets are two major risks with leaning on agriculture exports.

We need to shift towards valuable manufacturing (i.e., export things in global demand, like auto parts) to drive both export volume and value -- the latter's critical. We cannot be stuck it one level, but keep moving up in terms of high -value technologies.

But for now, the starting point should be to enter genuine auto manufacturing (not assembly) -- we have a market the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese like, we need to force them to start exporting from Pakistan if they intend to sell to Pakistanis. Likewise, we should work to boost our pharmaceutical industry and also enter circuit manufacturing, wires, consumer electronics, etc.


Great suggestions, however, I would add what Pakistani governments can do is identify certain companies or conglomerates and fund/finance their projects and really lift them up so that they can compete with the mafia in their business sector. The US government has regularly bailed out General Motors and helped them get out of a tight spot. What is stopping Pakistani government to take an indigenous company like Sazgar under its wing that already has expertise in auto-manufacturing (albiet in 3 wheelers) so that they can break the Japanese monopoly. Give Sazgar a budget and time-frame and ask them to come with an electric sedan/hatchback that is affordable yet high quality. If consumers see a company having direct backing of the government they will automatically gravitate towards it. Once Sazgar establishes its own place in the market and even starts taking export orders then the government can move onto the next company to take under its wing.

Although such a move will not be popular with our media who will make it seem that IK is funding his friends etc.
 
Great suggestions, however, I would add what Pakistani governments can do is identify certain companies or conglomerates and fund/finance their projects and really lift them up so that they can compete with the mafia in their business sector. The US government has regularly bailed out General Motors and helped them get out of a tight spot. What is stopping Pakistani government to take an indigenous company like Sazgar under its wing that already has expertise in auto-manufacturing (albiet in 3 wheelers) so that they can break the Japanese monopoly. Give Sazgar a budget and time-frame and ask them to come with an electric sedan/hatchback that is affordable yet high quality. If consumers see a company having direct backing of the government they will automatically gravitate towards it. Once Sazgar establishes its own place in the market and even starts taking export orders then the government can move onto the next company to take under its wing.

Although such a move will not be popular with our media who will make it seem that IK is funding his friends etc.
I agree. We'd basically need an inversion of what ZAB did in the 1970s. So funding and grants from the government to Pakistani private sectors so that they can grow, compete and become local giants. The availability of said funding might even push other Pakistanis to start investing, finally end the general fear (which resulted from ZAB's policies in the 1970s).

It is very difficult to "force" other country to import, I mean how do you even go about implementing it?

It makes more sense to subsidize your industry. Subsidizing policy is a god given right to all developing countries, East Asian countries all does it and have success from it. No one would point finger at Pakistan for it.

One needs to be smart about subsidy though since the money comes straight from your treasury. You can identify the area where Pakistan is capable of reaching parity with the world say within 5 years, then you focus all fire power to that one sector to guarantee succeed.

The end game is to secure one piece of the global supply chain, say the Hard disk supply chain in Thailand. Thailand itself didn't even develop any of the technology, They just provided very friendly policy to attract industry, now the HD supply chain is stuck in Thailand like glue, they can't even move away even if they'd wanted to.
I was referring to companies that are already selling Pakistan (e.g., Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, etc). They're selling new cars to the local market with mostly imports (assembled locally). So, instead of allowing them to do that, force them to manufacture most of the car (value-wise) in Pakistan, and export the cars/parts abroad.
 
I agree. We'd basically need an inversion of what ZAB did in the 1970s. So funding and grants from the government to Pakistani private sectors so that they can grow, compete and become local giants. The availability of said funding might even push other Pakistanis to start investing, finally end the general fear (which resulted from ZAB's policies in the 1970s).


I was referring to companies that are already selling Pakistan (e.g., Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, etc). They're selling new cars to the local market with mostly imports (assembled locally). So, instead of allowing them to do that, force them to manufacture most of the car (value-wise) in Pakistan, and export the cars/parts abroad.

Yes that is somewhat doable, high tariff for import item combine with tax cut for local production -> incentive for local production.

However subsidy is still a better tool as it directly help your local industry.
 
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