Pakistan’s trade deficit expanded by 31.4% in August 2025 on a year-on-year (YoY) basis to $2.89 billion compared to deficit of $2.2 billion reported in the same month of the previous fiscal year.
In a month-on-month basis, the trade deficit was down by 7.9% compared to deficit of $3.15 billion reported in July 2025.
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During 2MFY26, the trade deficit was up 29.6% to $11.144 billion compared to $9.73 billion reported in 2MFY24.
Exports during August were down -12.5 YoY and -10.0% MoM during August 2025 and stood at $2.417 billion.
Imports saw an increase of 7% YoY and -8.8 percent on a MoM basis during August 2025 and stood at 5.315 billion in August 2025.
