Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry -FPCCI

The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) (www.fpcci.com.pk ) was originally formed in 1949 by Mr. G Allana, with headquarters in Karachi but its membership then was confined to a limited number of bodies. The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) is the supreme among all trade and industrial bodies in the country. It enfolds all chambers and all country-wide associations representing specific trades and/or industries. Indeed, it is compulsory for all chambers and associations of commerce and industry to become members of the federation.
Being federal in its constitution, the federation takes up only such issues and matters as concern the country's trade and industry as a whole; in other words, the interests of all chambers and associations put together, e.g. economic planning, investment schedules, tax policy, money and credit transport and communication, export promotion, organization of general trade missions to foreign countries, receiving general trade missions form abroad etc. Matters concerning specific trades and/or industries (e.g. cotton or steel) or individual firms and companies are left to associations and local and regional chambers.
The head office of FPCCI is based in its own building, the Federation House, spread over an area of 11,666 sq. yards in a posh locality of Karachi, Clifton, over-looking the Arabian Sea. FPCCI has zonal offices in Lahore and Peshawar, which mainly deal with the provincial governments. FPCCI has a branch office in Islamabad to liaise with the federal government.

FPCCI offers the following services:

· Trade promotion

· Cooperation agreements

· Bilateral trade committees

· Standing committees

· Exhibitions

· Export trophy awards

· Arbitration

· Pakistan Shippers’ Council (PSC)

· Pakistan International Freight Forwarders’ Council (PIFFC)

· Trade delegations

· Pakistan's trade missions abroad

· International symposia/seminars/workshops