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# Intelligence: Food & Beverage Import in Pakistan

## Industry Context

- **Payment pressure:** Perishability creates urgency; Demurrage extremely costly for fresh goods

- **Operational control:** container tracking for demurrage avoidance; Fast EUR payments via SEPA

## Country Context

- **Use case:** Pay Pakistani suppliers for textiles, leather, surgical instruments, rice

- **Settlement:** T+0 (2.3s avg within Unicorn network)

- **Banking:** **IBAN** (24-character IBAN (Pakistan PK format))

- **Regulatory:** State Bank of Pakistan FX regulations; Pakistan Customs documentation

## Key Industries in Country

- Textiles

- Leather

- Surgical Instruments

- Agriculture

- Cement