ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s mobile phone imports declined by 66 percent in the first half of the current fiscal year 2022-2023, compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, according to figures from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
Mobile phone imports were recorded at 362.86 million U.S. dollars in Jul-Dec of the ongoing fiscal year, as against the imports of 1,090.64 million dollars, during the same months of fiscal year 2021-22, showing a decline of 66.73 percent, the PBS figures showed, yesterday.
Meanwhile, on the year-to-year basis, the import of mobile phones also dipped by 69.1 percent during Dec, 2022, when compared to the same month of last year, the PBS said.
However, on the month-on-month basis, the imports of mobile phones witnessed an increase of 12.04 percent during Dec, 2022, as compared to the imports of 64.52 million U.S. dollars, during Nov, 2022, according to the PBS data.– NNN-APP
