KARACHI: Pakistan and Norway signed a bilateral trade agreement in Karachi on Tuesday [May 22] for a period of 12 months. The agreement, which comes into force with immediate effect, is subject to ratification by the two Governments. Under the agreement, Pakistan has agreed to supply raw jute, tea, skins and hides, cotton, chrome, ore, rock salt, gypsum, surgical instruments to Norway, besides other raw materials. In return she will get paper, newsprint, cardboard, pig iron, electrical goods, besides medicines, household scales and auxiliaries for tanneries and other small machinery.

Norway has granted certain concessions with regard to licensing for imports to Pakistan within the framework of the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation.

[As reported by news agencies in Karachi,] Pakistan is negotiating trade agreement with Belgium… . The source said Pakistan was most interested in steel... . Instructions … have been sent to the Pakistan trade mission to France … to proceed to Belgium to negotiate a trade agreement... . The delegation is expected to have reached … by now.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2026