As per Ansar’s request, here is a breakdown of our imports for December 2008. All figures in ‘000 US$.
|
Food Groups |
|
236,176 |
|
|
Machinery |
486,280 |
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Mobile phones |
|
10,149 |
|
|
Transport |
107,040 |
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|
Petrochemicals |
403,592 |
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|
Textiles |
132,305 |
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All others |
|
761,520 |
|
|
2,126,913 |
If numbers like these excite you, you should take a look at the Federal Bureau of Statistics website. They have done and carry on doing a great job on the data collection and distribution front. Ten years ago when I had just started at Columbia and was looking for information on the Pakistani economy, there was nothing available. Today FSB collates and tracks trends on a month to month and year on year basis.