Pakistan’s trade deficit widened by 41 percent to $14.6 billion in the first eight months of the 2011/12 fiscal year, compared with $10.34 billion in the same period of the previous year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported.
Exports in the July-Feb period totalled $15.19 billion, and imports were $29.79 billion.
The trade deficit in February narrowed to $1.43 billion, compared with a $1.7 billion deficit in January.