Pakistan’s Mobile Imports Down 74% to $473 Million in 10 Months of FY23

Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $473.287 million during the first ten months (July-April) of the current fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23), registering a negative growth of 73.84 percent compared to imports of $1.809 billion during the same period of last year. Pakistan’s mobile phone imports declined by 28.69 percent on a month-on-month (MoM) basis in April 2023 and stood at $10.587 million to imports of $14.846 million in March 2023, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). Mobile phone imports registered 95.03 percent negative growth on a year-on-year (YoY) basis in April 2023 compared to $212.881 million in April 2022. The overall telecom imports into the country stood at $779.413 million during July-April FY23 and registered 67.71 percent negative growth compared to $2.413 billion during the same period of last fiscal year. On a YoY basis, the overall telecom imports registered a negative growth of 87.53 percent and stood at $34.504 million in April 2023 compared to $276.652 million in April 2022. On a MoM basis, the overall telecom imports registered 4.52 percent negative growth in April 2023 compared to $36.112 million during March 2023. Other apparatus imports stood at $306.126 million in July-April FY23 and registered 49.36 percent negative growth compared to $604.549 million during the same period of the last fiscal year. On a year-on-year basis, other apparatus imports stood at $23.917 million in April 2023 and registered 62.50 percent negative growth compared to $63.772 million in April 2022 and registered 12.47 percent growth on MoM basis compared to $21.266 million in March 2023.