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Import Side
• Nearly 80% of Pakistan’s imports related to only four
commodity-groups;
• 40% to POL products, 16% food products, 21% raw material
and only 4% machinery;
• Within food-group edible-oil is the main import item
followed by sugar, pulses, and tea. Last year wheat was also
a big ticket item;
• Within raw material, fertilizer , iron and steel scrap and
chemicals have the largest weight;
• The sudden rise in international prices of imported products
resulted into additional import bill of nearly US $ 4 b in first
ten months of 2007-08 but with the collapse of these prices
the burden on national exchequer has reduced. 88