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Related Keywords: Central Asian states, conclude FTA. by May next year, Major import products from Thailand include fabrics, Pakistan and Thailand, Pakistan second largest trading partner, Pakistan to enhance access to ASEAN region, Textiles, Thailand to enhance trade with South Asian states

Pakistan and Thailand to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) by May next year, which will help Pakistan, enhance its access to ASEAN region and Thailand to enhance its trade with the South Asian states as well as with the Central Asian states. Pakistan is already its second largest trading partner after India in the region.

The two countries plan to use the FTA as a springboard for gaining access in the ASEAN and South and Central Asian regions respectively.

Related Keywords: explore areas to enhance trade relation, Export development Board of Sri Lanka, hosting first high level forum, organizing Pakistan Single Country Exhibition, Pak Lanka business interaction forum, Pakistan second largest trading partner, promote bilateral investment, showcase the whole range of Pakistan’s industrial sector to Sri Lankan consumers

The Export Development Board of Sri Lanka is hosting the first high level Pak-Lanka business interaction forum to explore areas for enhancing trade relations and promoting bilateral investment between the two countries. IT will be held in Colombo on Nov 11, 2015.

The Pak-Lanka trade and investment talks are taking place in furtherance to the understanding reached between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in April this year when the latter visited Pakistan.

The two sides had decided to take the bilateral trade and investment to new heights.