Pakistan yet to award MFN status to India: Govt

Pakistan is yet to award the most favoured nation (MFN) status to India and it maintains a negative list of 1,209 items which are not permitted to be imported from India, Parliament was informed today.

Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply that the government has not taken any decision to review the MFN status accorded to Pakistan, so far.

As per a World Trade Organisation (WTO) rule, every member of WTO requires to accord this status to other member countries.
 

India has already granted this status to all WTO members including Pakistan.

Under MFN, a WTO member country