{"id":23821,"date":"2026-09-16T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:04:21","slug":"pakistans-trade-deficit-with-saudi-arabia-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23821","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Trade Deficit with Saudi Arabia Declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1426\"><strong data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1426\">Pakistan\u2019s trade deficit with Saudi Arabia fell by 18.37 percent during the first two months of the current fiscal year, reaching $471 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1583\">According to government data, the trade deficit between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia stood at $577 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1585\" data-end=\"1814\">Sources said that Pakistan\u2019s exports to Saudi Arabia amounted to $98 million during the first two months of the current fiscal year, July and August 2026. During the same period last year, Pakistani exports stood at $102 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"1917\">As a result, Pakistan\u2019s exports to Saudi Arabia declined by 3.92 percent during the first two months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1919\" data-end=\"2126\">Sources added that Pakistan\u2019s imports from Saudi Arabia also recorded a significant decline during the first two months of the current fiscal year, contributing to the reduction in the overall trade deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s trade deficit with Saudi Arabia fell by 18.37 percent during the first two months of the current fiscal year, reaching $471 million. According to government data, the trade deficit between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia stood at $577 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year. Sources said that Pakistan\u2019s exports to Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[7642,13646,13645,4926,4665,13644,7803,10685],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-bilateral-trade","tag-economic-news","tag-exports-to-saudi-arabia","tag-imports","tag-pakistan-economy","tag-pakistan-saudi-arabia-trade","tag-pakistani-exports","tag-trade-deficit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23823,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions\/23823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}