Emergency Economic Plan: Import of at least 38 non-essential luxury items banned by Govt

The government has banned the import of non-essential luxury items under the emergency economic plan!

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a tweet announced the decision to impose the ban on certain nonessential items after the federal cabinet’s approval.

The ban on the import of at least 38  items has been imposed for two months to forestall a looming default. 

Luxury cars, mobile phones, cosmetics, cigarettes, food products, certain garments, and toiletries will fall in the banned import items category. 

PM Shehbaz Sharif vowed to overcome all the challenges with resolve and determination with the nation’s help.

“My decision to ban the import of luxury items will save the country precious foreign exchange. We will practice austerity & financially stronger people must lead in this effort so that the less privileged among us do not have to bear this burden inflicted on them by the PTI govt,” PM Shehbaz Sharif tweeted.

The non-essential luxury items banned by the government include:

1. Automobiles
2. Mobile phones
3. Home appliances
4. Fruits and dry fruits (except to be imported from Afghanistan)
5. Crockery
6. Private weapons and ammunition
7. Shoes
8. Chandeliers and lighting (except energy savers)
9. Headphones and loudspeakers
10. Sauces
11. Doors and window frames
12. Traveling bags and suitcases
13. Sanitary ware
14. Fish and frozen fish
15. Carpets (except Afghanistan)
16. Preserved fruits
17. Tissue paper
18. Furniture
19. Shampoos
20. Confectionary
21. Luxury mattresses and sleeping bags
22. Jams and jelly
23. Cornflakes
24. Toiletries
25. Heaters, blowers
26. Sunglasses
27. Kitchenware
28. Aerated water
29. Frozen meat
30. Juices
31. Pasta
32. Ice cream
33. Cigarettes
34. Shaving goods
35. Luxury leather apparel
36. Musical instruments
37. Salon items like hairdryers etc
38. Chocolates