July-March Fiscal Year 2016: readymade garment exports up over four percent

The country's readymade garment exports reached $1.609 billion in the last nine months of the current fiscal year, up by over four percent, official figures say. According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the readymade garment exports witnessed an increase of $64.922 million in July-March period of FY16, which stood at $1.544 billion in the same period last fiscal year. The readymade garment exports volume grew by two percent or 361,000 dozens to 23.472 million dozens from 23.111 million dozens in July-March 2014-15.
In March 2016, the readymade garment exports went up by 6.15 percent or $9.981 million to $172.169 million from $162.188 million in March 2015. The volume of readymade garment exports in March 2016 increased by three percent or 70,000 dozens to 2.468 million dozens from 2.398 million dozens in March 2015.