ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce (NASCC) will hold a meeting in the next couple of weeks to discuss decline in exports and the establishment of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).

NASCC chairman MNA Iqbal Mahmood Ali told Dawn on Thursday the meeting was delayed because members of the committee were either busy in their constituencies or on visit to foreign countries.

He said that the committee had already conveyed its concerns to the commerce ministry over establishment of TDAP through presidential ordinance instead of an act of parliament.

“This would be on top of the agenda,” he said and added that the ministry had given us an assurance in black and white that the new authority would be set up through an act of parliament.