Lacing exports with GI tags
Products with GI tag fetch much higher price than those without such identity
KARACHI:
Do you know what is common among Pakistan’s Basmati rice, Hunza/ Ziarat apples, Multan’s Chaunsa mango, Kashmiri Pashmina, Khewra pink salt, Sialkot sports and surgical goods and Sahiwal cattle?
These are goods produced in certain areas of Pakistan and are unique. They are not produced anywhere in the world. But does the world recognise their status?
That’s important to know because unless the world recognises them as such, Pakistan cannot market them in global markets, claiming they are produced only in this country.
Published May 21, 2021 at 5:16 PM CDT Missouri Historical Society Garment workers inside a Starr Company factory look toward the camera in this image from the early 1900s.
Valerie Battle Kienzle & Reedy Press Valerie Battle Kienzle (at left) spent about five years completing her new book on St. Louis fashion history.
Valerie Battle Kienzle has researched and written all sorts of things over the course of her career, penning everything from newspaper articles to corporate communications to books.
But at heart, the Weldon Spring, Missouri, resident admits, she’s “a history nerd.”
“Anything that’s history, I will go down a rabbit hole,” Kienzle told