{"id":3236,"date":"2025-10-17T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:10:49","slug":"make-exports-competitive-only-way-to-curb-soaring-trade-deficit-gohar-ejaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/make-exports-competitive-only-way-to-curb-soaring-trade-deficit-gohar-ejaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Exports Competitive \u2014 Only Way to Curb Soaring Trade Deficit: Gohar Ejaz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chairman Economic Policy and Business Development (EPBD) Gohar Ejaz has voiced deep concern over Pakistan\u2019s widening trade deficit, warning that the growing imbalance poses a serious threat to the country\u2019s external account stability.<\/p>\n

He said the trade deficit surged by 33.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of FY26, reaching $9.43 billion, as exports fell 3.9 percent to $7.6 billion while imports jumped 13.9 percent to $17.03 billion.<\/p>\n

Gohar Ejaz noted that the decline in exports was mainly driven by a 27 percent fall in the food group, while imports in transport and textile groups skyrocketed by 142 percent and 44 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis widening trade gap underscores deep structural flaws in our economy,\u201d he remarked, adding that Pakistan\u2019s export base remains narrow, low-value, and undiversified, while imports are largely consumption-driven and inelastic.<\/p>\n

He stressed that export-led growth anchored in competitiveness, productivity, innovation, and market diversification is the only sustainable solution to the persistent external imbalances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout making our exports competitive and expanding our product and market base, Pakistan will continue to face recurring balance-of-payments crises and fall back into boom-and-bust cycles,\u201d Gohar warned.<\/p>\n

He urged urgent policy measures to enhance industrial productivity, encourage innovation, and support export diversification, emphasizing that only a competitive export sector can secure long-term economic stability for the country.<\/p>\n

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Chairman Economic Policy and Business Development (EPBD) Gohar Ejaz has voiced deep concern over Pakistan\u2019s widening trade deficit, warning that the growing imbalance poses a serious threat to the country\u2019s external account stability. He said the trade deficit surged by 33.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of FY26, reaching $9.43 billion, as exports fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dr-gohar-ejaz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinpk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}