Pakistan's exports to China showed an upward trend, registering an increase of about 39.2 percent last year, officials said. The exports amounted to $832 million from January to December, 2005 whereas these were $594 million in the previous year (January-December. 2004). The increase in Pakistan's exports to China in a period of one year amounted to about $238 million. There was a considerable jump in the export items like cotton yarn, cotton fabric, leather, chromium ore, copper and fishes, officials said. Growing Chinese market also provides wide opportunities to Pakistani traders to enhance their export in non-traditional items like sports and engineering goods, handicrafts, marble, onyx, jewelry and agro-based products. Pakistan's export to China is likely to get further boost, with the reduction of tariff on a number of trading items under the Early Harvest Programme (EHP) that came into effect from January, 2006. The margin of duty-reduction from the Chinese side is around 27 percent.
