ISLAMABAD, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's textile exports surged by over 10 percent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year from July 2024 to June 2025, compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, officials from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Monday.

The textile exports were recorded at 10.77 billion U.S. dollars in July to January of the ongoing fiscal year as against the exports of 9.74 billion dollars in July to January of the fiscal year 2023-24, showing growth of 10.6 percent, the PBS officials said.

On a year-on-year basis, textile exports went up by 15.9 percent in January 2025 to 1.69 billion dollars against exports of 1.46 billion dollars in January 2024, according to PBS.

Similarly, on a month-on-month basis, the textile exports witnessed an increase of 14.1 percent in January 2025 compared to the exports of 1.48 billion dollars in December 2024.

The PBS said that cotton cloth, knitwear, bedding, towels, readymade garments, tents, canvas, and tarpaulins were among the commodities that contributed to the trade growth in the textile sector. Enditem

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