KARACHI: Oct 5: Local suppliers and manufactures on Friday held meetings with visiting foreign buyers and Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) were signed.

These meetings are being held on the sidelines of the 7th Expo Pakistan.

Meanwhile, Chief Executive TDAP Tahir Raza Naqvi held separate meetings with various trade groups and delegations especially from South Africa, Egypt, Australia, Russia, Afghanistan and others on Friday.

Business to business meetings and interactions were also separately organised by members of FPCCI and KCCI.

The businessmen were freely having interactions with each other while various foreign groups held meetings with CE TDAP to discuss technical issues, matters related to policy level and facilitation.

Talking to media, Naqvi said that all possible facilities are being provided to importers/foreign buyers and local businessmen to avail business opportunities at the annual event.

According to Naqvi, the final data of import orders and total outcome of the event would be shared with media by end of the mega event. However he expressed his satisfaction over the two days’ event specially arranged for the foreign visitors.

He added that foreign buyers, who met the concerned Pakistani companies’ representatives during the exhibitions, informed him that majority of them had good deals with the country’s exporters and placed orders worth millions of dollars.

He further said the expo center would be open for public from Saturday to Sunday.

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