Pakistan witnessed growth in towel exports worth $70.354m in March

Pakistan witnessed growth in towel exports by 15.78 percent during month of March, 2017 as compared the exports of the corresponding month of the last year. However, during first three quarters of current financial year exports of the towel from the country decreased by 3.18 percent as was recorded at 132,723 metric tons.

According the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, about 15,325 metric tons of towels worth US$ 70.354 million exported in month of March. During the period from July-March, 2016-17 towels worth of US$ 578.24 million were exported.

However, in last 9 months exports of bed wear grew by 5.11 percent and about 263,814 metric tons of the bedwear worth US$ 1.585 billion exported.

On month on month basis, exports of bed wear increased by 5.43 percent and was recorded at 29,259 metric tons valuing US$ 180 million. It may be recalled that textile group exports from the country during month of March grew by 6.16 percent and reached at US$ 1.64 billion.

While textile goods worth US$ 9.278 billion were exported during the last nine months.

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