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Chemical sector plays a vital role in the economic development of any country. Pakistan has not yet utilized potential of chemical sector. At the time of independence, chemical industry in Pakistan was practically non-existent. Over the years, some traditional sectors have developed, however the Chemical Industry in Pakistan is still at a very nascent stage. The chemical industry in Pakistan has by and large developed on a fragmented and ad hoc basis motivated by a combination of the existence of small local market and attracted by traditionally high tariffs. As a result it suffers from the lack of scales, national integration and consequent non-competitiveness. However, there are sectors where some scale and integration has been achieved on the basis of growing local market. These include fertilizers, pesticides and to some extent dyestuffs and other inputs for the textile industries. Even in the domains of pesticides and dyestuffs, the production is primarily based on imported base materials and the domestic value addition is confined to formulations and packaging. Pakistan is an agricultural economy; therefore, major part of the chemical industry provides agricultural inputs, i.e. fertilizer and pesticides.
