{"id":36342,"date":"2026-08-21T04:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=36342"},"modified":"2026-08-21T04:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:42:01","slug":"chemical-pharma-exports-rise-24-yoy-to-127-million-in-july-cement-exports-also-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=36342","title":{"rendered":"Chemical, pharma exports rise 24% YoY to $127 million in July; cement exports also climb\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Other chemicals lead growth at nearly 47% annually; pharmaceutical exports fall despite monthly gain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exports of chemicals and pharmaceutical products, part of Pakistan’s broader “Other Manufactures” export group, rose to $127.19 million in July 2026, up 14.85% month-on-month from $110.75 million in June, and 24% higher than $102.58 million in July 2025, according to provisional Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In rupee terms, exports totalled Rs35,363 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other chemicals led the category, rising 27.03% month-on-month to $64.33 million, up 46.66% year-on-year. Plastic materials exports fell 7.82% month-on-month to $34.63 million but rose 38% year-on-year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pharmaceutical product exports increased 25.28% month-on-month to $28.24 million, though they remained down 16.02% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Separately, cement exports rose to $38.21 million in July, up 42.87% month-on-month and 9.58% higher year-on-year, with export quantity climbing 53.89% month-on-month to 985,180 metric tons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engineering goods exports fell 26.45% month-on-month to $41.43 million but were up 10.47% year-on-year. Surgical goods and medical instruments exports rose 29.59% month-on-month to $41.51 million, up 8.42% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unclassified “other items” imports rose 34.15% YoY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond eight formally classified import groups, a residual category labelled “All Other Items” in Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data rose to $490.68 million in July 2026, up 1.65% month-on-month from $482.70 million in June, and 34.15% higher than $365.77 million in July 2025. In rupee terms, this stood at Rs136,612 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the separately classified Miscellaneous Group, imports totalled $119.81 million in July, up 12.53% month-on-month and 5.58% year-on-year, with rupee-denominated imports at Rs33,350 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubber tyres and tubes led growth within the Miscellaneous Group, up 41.33% month-on-month and 43.36% year-on-year to $34.04 million. Wood and cork imports rose 19.18% month-on-month to $12.14 million, up 27.90% year-on-year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper and paperboard imports edged up 2.84% month-on-month to $40.66 million but fell 10.86% year-on-year. Jute imports, by contrast, fell to zero in July, down 100% both month-on-month and year-on-year from $1.86 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/profit.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2026\/08\/19\/chemical-pharma-exports-rise-24percent-yoy-to-dollar127-million-in-july-cement-exports-also-climb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Other chemicals lead growth at nearly 47% annually; pharmaceutical exports fall despite monthly gain Exports of chemicals and pharmaceutical products, part of Pakistan’s broader “Other Manufactures” export group, rose to $127.19 million in July 2026, up 14.85% month-on-month from $110.75 million in June, and 24% higher than $102.58 million in July 2025, according to provisional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[33831,32023,23831,2076,2769,483,2906],"class_list":["post-36342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-cement-2","tag-chemicals","tag-construction-2","tag-economy-2","tag-exports-2","tag-pakistan-2","tag-trade-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36343,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions\/36343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}