Pakistan’s trade deficit surged nearly 33% year-on-year to $2.86 billion in November 2025, driven by a sharp drop in exports and a rise in imports, according to data released Tuesday by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
The country’s trade gap stood at $2.15 billion in November 2024.
Exports in November 2025 fell 15.4% to $2.39 billion, compared to $2.83 billion a year earlier. Imports, meanwhile, climbed more than 5% to $5.25 billion from $4.98 billion in the same period last year.
On a month-on-month basis, the trade deficit narrowed by nearly 12% from $3.24 billion in October 2025, as both exports and imports declined compared to the previous month.
For the first five months of the fiscal year 2025-26, the trade deficit widened by over 37% to $15.47 billion, up from $11.28 billion in the same period last year.
Exports during July-November dropped more than 6% to $12.84 billion, while imports rose 13% to $28.3 billion.
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If our economy is doing so well, then why would exports be dropping? There is something really fake about the economy. I wonder if anyone else notices this…