business
January 11, 2018
Trade deficit widens 24.5pc to $17.963 billion in July-Dec
KARACHI: Trade deficit widened 24.5 percent to $17.963 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year of 2017/18 as growth in imports continued to outpace recovery in exports, official data showed on Wednesday.Trade deficit amounted to $14.428 billion in the July-December period of FY2017, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics .Exports increased 11.24 percent year-on-year to $11.007 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year, while imports surged 19.11 percent to...