On 5 January 2018, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet approved withdrawal of sales tax and customs duty on import of cotton effective from 8 January 2018.

The ECC also granted approval for issuance of GoP Sovereign Guarantee for Rs39,000 million for construction of two 660 MW coal power projects at Jamshoro. The approval has been granted after third party evaluation of the project and authentication of the projected demand and supply data submitted by NTDC.