Pakistan, July 17 -- Pakistan has emerged from the European Union's latest GSP+ assessment with its most important commercial advantage not only intact, but visibly strengthened: it remains the largest beneficiary of the preferential trade arrangement and one of its most effective users.

The figures tell their own story. In 2024, €7.482 billion worth of Pakistani exports were eligible for GSP+ preferences. Of this, goods worth €7.115 billion successfully entered the European market under the facility, producing a preference-utilisation rate of 95.1 per cent. Pakistan also secured an estimated €732 million in tariff exemptions, equivalent to roughly nine per cent of its export value to the EU.

For a country under persis...