ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s textile exports down by 7.3 per cent in August 2025 to $1.52 billion compared with $1.68 billion a year earlier, official data showed Tuesday.
Similarly, over the previous month of July 2025 exports of $1.64 billion, its sales abroad declined by 9.29 per cent.
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said knitwear exports declined 3.72 percent to $445.7 million, readymade garments down by 9.6 percent to $328 million. Bedwear shipments declined by 7.3pc to $269 million, towels declined by 15.3pc to $85.2 million cotton cloth reduced by 13.7pc to $157.5 million. However, cotton yarn exports increased by 15.1 per cent to $63 million in August 2025 over the same moth of last year.
Similarly, food sector exports drastically shrank 35.2pc to $347.6 million. Rice — one of the country’s top foreign exchange earners — dropped 43.5pc to $146.3 million, with basmati plunging 48.5pc to $51.5 million. Meat exports down by 5.1pc to $36.4 million, however fruits exports increased by 4.5pc to $31.5 million, and fish and seafood increased by 47.8pc to $23.9 million.
Sports goods exports rose 11.4pc to $36.3 million, led by a 9.7pc spike in football shipments that stood at $22.96 million.
Surgical instruments exports down 6.04pc to $36.3 million, while cement exports up by 70.1pc to $37.8 million.
On import side, petroleum group imports down by 14.6pc to $1.19 billion. Of this, crude oil imports down by 16.3pc to $488.7 million, LPG down by 19.8pc to $72 million and LNG imports also declined by 27.4pc to $276.8 million. However, petroleum products imports increased 3.77pc to $355 million.
The machinery group imports increased by 15.3pc to $780.5 million in August 2025. Of this, textile machinery imports up by 59.8pc to $52 million and a 107pc increase in construction and mining machinery reaching to $17 million. Agricultural machinery imports increased 33.8pc to $15 million, however 2.4pc decline was seen in power generation equipment to $50.6 million.
Telecom machinery imports up by 71.2pc to $204.3 million, with mobile phone imports jumped 95.7pc to $155 million. While in contrast, electrical machinery imports dipped 13.1pc to $234.2 million.
In food segment, palm oil imports increased 32pc to $337.5 million, pulses 10.9pc to $183 million, while tea imports down 9.7pc to $55 million.
Transport sector imports, however, jumped 58pc to $318.8 million. Under the complete knockdown/ semi-knockdown (CKD/SKD) motor vehicle category, imports increased by 58.3pc to $305 million. The import of complete built units of cars increased by 5.8pc to $25.8 million, while the CKD/SKD cars imports was 73.8pc high to $170.8 million.