The government of Pakistan is a keen pursuer of bilateral trade and investment agreements. It has a full FTA with Sri Lanka, a PTA with Turkey, Early Harvest Schemes with China and Malaysia, and is part of both ECOTA and SAFTA. It is in various stages of FTA talks, or preparations for talks, with Indonesia, Jordan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Russia (among others). In July 2006 it signed a Framework Agreement on Trade with Mercosur.

Negotiations on a US-Pakistan bilateral investment treaty, as a step towards an FTA, have been quite problematic — and controversial — and are unconcluded.