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Trade deficit increased 100.6 percent YoY, thanks to brilliant policies of finance minister Shaukat Tareen

Thats not an honest assessment. Please keep in mind the current global oil, LNG, Coal, cooking oil, wheat andSugar prices... All of these have skyrocketed. The comparison would have been better if the cost of these commodities was some what stable or the prices were standardized for the time period.

If at all, the PTI government has decreased the various levies, duties, and taxes on petroleum products and recently on the cooking oil aswell.
 
Yet another sensational thread void of any critical thinking and understanding of what is going on and where the world trade and prices are heading.

I get sick of respondinding to such nonsense posts where the poster doesn’t even bother to do basic research to understand the proper context and reasons behind the numbers .
Just brain dead waste of time .

However just to put some sense and context to this misguided post here is something for you to chew on:

reasons for imports increase :

Our biggest import bill is oil.
oil is at almost $82 today. There are some one brain cell members who question accepting Saudi oil facility. We should be very thankful to them for extending such facility in such difficult times . Their credit is applicable not just to their own crude but we are free to buy from where ever we want.

Second commodities prices are through the roof. No longer cheap wheat and sugar is available due to the supply chain disturbances and COVId related shortages .
Daddy Nawaj destroyed our food basket and the results are now showing up.

third Pakistan’s economy is picking up fast. Raw material and machinery is imported in record amount. This is bad and expensive in a short run but very good in a long run and for the exports.

lastly we are not the only one suffering from record trade deficits….. look in the neighbourhood and see how bad the situation is getting.

 
Agreed, the only way to reduce trade deficit is to reduce Imports, and impose some additional taxes, Pakistan should focus and improve more on domestic economy.
 
These are just Single Numbers of currencies

There are other measurement scales than Dollars.

Mention and compare them, Then you have the right to Cry
 

We managed to pull back imports MoM. The new curbs announced will begin from Oct, will decrease further.

With the global commodity prices it is not a bad number. Crude is at $82+, coal at $193/ton. LNG at record high. Palm oil at highest level ever. With the commodity decrease imports will come down automatically. Just hang in there for the winter.

Our exports in goods are set to cross $28b this year.

It is an improvement over previous month, expect CAD around $1b for this month.
 
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Not to mention we continue to have record remittances and exports always go up later in the year .
Also export numbers do not reflect IT and services exports.
If the trend continues we will easily achieve $31 B remittance target .

 
Trade deficit increased 100.6 percent YoY, thanks to brilliant policies of finance minister Shaukat Tareen


a vicious circle we are in -

thanks to constant de industrialization over the last 3 decades - zardari + nawaz destroyed any manufacturing and SMEs

loans after loans and now this incompetent PTI multiplying our debt .

will we enter into an economic collapse ?
 
a vicious circle we are in -

thanks to constant de industrialization over the last 3 decades - zardari + nawaz destroyed any manufacturing and SMEs

loans after loans and now this incompetent PTI multiplying our debt .

will we enter into an economic collapse ?


do you know that the debt ratio as percentage of GDP has gone down significantly ???
Probably not. Randi Rona is cheap.

this government saved your non tax paying corrupt *** from destroying Pakistan .
You should be thankful that they took long over due hard decisions and have managed to put economy on the right track.

You have confessed that you don’t pay taxes….
start paying taxes …. Every Rs that you eat is haram on you and your family.
a vicious circle we are in -

thanks to constant de industrialization over the last 3 decades - zardari + nawaz destroyed any manufacturing and SMEs

loans after loans and now this incompetent PTI multiplying our debt .

will we enter into an economic collapse ?

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a vicious circle we are in -

thanks to constant de industrialization over the last 3 decades - zardari + nawaz destroyed any manufacturing and SMEs

loans after loans and now this incompetent PTI multiplying our debt .

will we enter into an economic collapse ?

As long as we keep the currency market bound and REER value at 95%-99%, most of all continue IMF programme we will be fine. There are no short cuts in economics, the only long term solution is to promote exports and remittances.

TERF and other modes of cheap financing for capacity building should not be stopped at any cost.

Global commodity prices will not remain this high forever, the cycle normally lasts 6months to a year. Winter will be brutal. Our import figure is swelled by around $1.5b as compared to average commodity prices in the last 5 years and due to TERF etc. Need to ride out this phase.

Our remittances and export in goods stand at $5.1b monthly which is a very healthy sign in the long run.

Services deficit has started to grow as well due to flights opening up and exorbant freight and container charges, need to further facilitate IT exports ( will cross $2.5 easy this year)
 
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