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Pakistan is a small but growing market for imported consumer food products and the small modern retail sector is growing slowly.

This report outlines regulatory requirements and import procedures for food and agricultural imports into Pakistan.

This report outlines TT’s certification requirements and includes an Export Certificate Matrix as well as examples of select Export Certificates.

Pakistani cotton is currently among lowest-priced cotton in the world.

The Government of Pakistan has increased the tariff on sugar imports from zero to 20 percent and authorized an export quota of 500,000 metric tons.

Over the past 11 years (2004-2013) U.S. exports to the Caribbean Island Basin of consumer-oriented products and fish products have averaged over 10 percent annual growth.

While most U.S. products are fully acceptable in Trinidad and Tobago (TT), special attention needs to be given to licensing, certification, labeling and documentation for select products.

The Government of Pakistan has increased the tariff on wheat imports from zero to twenty percent.

Pakistan recently purchased 40,000 metric tons of U.S. soybean meal.

The bill amending Pakistan’s 1976 Seed Act has cleared the first step of the legislative process.

The soon-to-be-harvested sugarcane crop was largely unaffected by recent flooding.

Recent floods damaged an estimated 80,000 hectares of cotton area, a small fraction of Pakistan’s 3.1 million hectares of cotton.