Pakistan's trade with Sri Lanka

What Pakistan sells to Sri Lanka and buys from it, product by product, each fiscal year from 1990-91 to 2024-25.

Exports to Sri Lanka, FY2024-25: $371 mn (Rs 104 bn) — 1.2% of all exports

Imports from Sri Lanka, FY2024-25: $54.7 mn (Rs 15.3 bn) — 0.1% of all imports

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · US$ at each year's average exchange rate

What Pakistan sells to Sri Lanka, FY2024-25

ProductUS$
Cereals; maize (corn), other than seed 10059000$42.4 mn
Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) 25231000$40.6 mn
Cotton woven fabrics denim>200g/sq m 52094200$28.5 mn
Vegetables; potatoes (other than seed), fresh or chilled 07019000$28.4 mn
Vegetables, alliaceous; onions and shallots, fresh or chilled 07031000$24.7 mn
Cotton woven fabrics dyed 3-4 thread 52093200$16.0 mn
Other medicament containing vitamins 30049099$15.3 mn
White crystaline cane sugar 17019910$12.6 mn
Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics, other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04, of cotton, dyed 60062200$8.4 mn
Other medicimentharmone not ant 30043900$7.3 mn
Multiple/cabled c/y ulf.232.56-714.29d 52053200$6.4 mn
Rice basmati 10063010$6.2 mn
Cement; portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured 25232900$6.0 mn
Other cotton woven fabrics dyed>200g/sq m 52093900$5.7 mn
With-fabrics cotton denm, mixed mfw>200g/sq m 52114200$4.9 mn
Cotton woven fabrics 3/4thread with>200g/sq m 52092200$4.7 mn
Other, non-wired glass 70052900$4.7 mn
Fruit, edible; mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas), fresh or dried 08052100$4.1 mn
Ensembles; men's or boys', of cotton (not knitted or crocheted) 62032200$4.0 mn
Cotton woven fabrics mixed-man-made fibres200g/sq m dye 52103100$3.8 mn
Carbonates; disodium carbonate 28362000$3.8 mn
With-f poly staple fibres 3/4thread dyed 55142200$3.7 mn
Other tube pipe hw-profilr i/steel 73069000$3.6 mn
Other cotton woven fabrics<2000/sq m dye 52083900$3.4 mn
Fabrics, woven; of cotton, dyed, weighing more than 200g/m2, n.e.c. in chapter 52 52122300$3.3 mn

What Pakistan buys from Sri Lanka, FY2024-25

ProductUS$
Betal leaves 14049020$13.5 mn
Other vegetables mate used for brooms 14049049$4.4 mn
Nuts, edible; coconuts, in the inner shell (endocarp) 08011200$3.4 mn
Rubber; natural (excluding latex), in smoked sheets 40012100$3.4 mn
Cellulose fibre-cement; articles or the like; corrugated sheets, not containing asbestos 68118100$2.9 mn
Other sht, panel, tiles, not con asbe 68118200$2.8 mn
Other round cans of all sizes 76129040$2.1 mn
Filaments yarn of polyesters 54023300$1.5 mn
Other enameled copper wire 85441190$1.4 mn
Spices; nutmeg, neither crushed nor ground 09081100$1.3 mn
Other natural rubber 40012900$1.3 mn
Nuts, edible; coconuts, desiccated 08011100$1.2 mn
Glove for medical/surgical/dental, vet 40151200$1.1 mn
Extact, essence etc. of tea mate 21012000$883 k
Lead oxides; n.e.c. in heading no. 2824 28249000$839 k
Other carboys bott, flask, jar, pot 70109000$689 k
Cereal grains; rolled or flaked, of oats 11041200$636 k
Lead; lead monoxide (litharge, massicot) 28241000$634 k
Pens; ball point 96081000$609 k
Other tow, noils and waste of vegetables fibres 53050090$569 k
Dog or cat food; (not put up for retail sale), used in animal feeding 23099000$523 k
Palm fatty acid distillate 38231910$516 k
Zinc; oxide and peroxide 28170000$432 k
Tendu leaves (bidi leaves) 14049010$419 k
Other lubricating prepared petrolum oil 34031990$408 k

Every year

Fiscal yearExports, US$Exports, RsImports, US$Imports, RsBalance, US$
2024-25$371 mnRs 104 bn$54.7 mnRs 15.3 bn$316 mn
2023-24$386 mnRs 109 bn$54.8 mnRs 15.5 bn$331 mn
2022-23$293 mnRs 72.7 bn$66.6 mnRs 16.5 bn$226 mn
2021-22$387 mnRs 68.6 bn$76.7 mnRs 13.6 bn$310 mn
2020-21$276 mnRs 44.2 bn$83.4 mnRs 13.3 bn$193 mn
2019-20$299 mnRs 47.2 bn$59.4 mnRs 9.4 bn$239 mn
2018-19$314 mnRs 42.8 bn$75.7 mnRs 10.3 bn$239 mn
2017-18$321 mnRs 35.2 bn$103 mnRs 11.3 bn$218 mn
2016-17$252 mnRs 26.4 bn$103 mnRs 10.8 bn$150 mn
2015-16$247 mnRs 25.8 bn$74.6 mnRs 7.8 bn$173 mn
2014-15$267 mnRs 27 bn$57.8 mnRs 5.9 bn$209 mn
2013-14$260 mnRs 26.7 bn$62.0 mnRs 6.4 bn$198 mn
2012-13$332 mnRs 32.1 bn$76.5 mnRs 7.4 bn$255 mn
2011-12$306 mnRs 27.3 bn$69.0 mnRs 6.2 bn$237 mn
2010-11$332 mnRs 28.4 bn$57.3 mnRs 4.9 bn$274 mn
2009-10$284 mnRs 23.8 bn$54.7 mnRs 4.6 bn$229 mn
2008-09$189 mnRs 14.9 bn$65.1 mnRs 5.1 bn$124 mn
2007-08$214 mnRs 13.4 bn$61.6 mnRs 3.9 bn$153 mn
2006-07$201 mnRs 12.2 bn$63.4 mnRs 3.8 bn$137 mn
2005-06$159 mnRs 9.5 bn$71.3 mnRs 4.3 bn$87.9 mn
2004-05$156 mnRs 9.3 bn$44.9 mnRs 2.7 bn$111 mn
2003-04$97.8 mnRs 5.6 bn$48.4 mnRs 2.8 bn$49.4 mn
2002-03$76.0 mnRs 4.4 bn$38.2 mnRs 2.2 bn$37.8 mn
2001-02$72.0 mnRs 4.4 bn$28.5 mnRs 1.8 bn$43.5 mn
2000-01$75.2 mnRs 4.4 bn$35.2 mnRs 2.1 bn$40.0 mn
1999-00$96.6 mnRs 5 bn$34.6 mnRs 1.8 bn$62.0 mn
1998-99$98.4 mnRs 4.6 bn$34.0 mnRs 1.6 bn$64.4 mn
1997-98$102 mnRs 4.4 bn$37.9 mnRs 1.6 bn$63.6 mn
1996-97$82.6 mnRs 3.2 bn$41.8 mnRs 1.6 bn$40.8 mn
1995-96$66.2 mnRs 2.2 bn$45.7 mnRs 1.5 bn$20.5 mn
1994-95$60.6 mnRs 1.9 bn$49.6 mnRs 1.5 bn$11.0 mn
1993-94$65.9 mnRs 2 bn$38.5 mnRs 1.2 bn$27.5 mn
1992-93$61.7 mnRs 1.6 bn$36.9 mnRs 959.1 mn$24.7 mn
1991-92$81.2 mnRs 2 bn$34.2 mnRs 849.3 mn$47.0 mn
1990-91$76.3 mnRs 1.7 bn$34.9 mnRs 781.8 mn$41.4 mn

Questions

How much does Pakistan trade with Sri Lanka?

In FY2024-25 Pakistan exported US$371 million to Sri Lanka and imported US$54.7 million from it — a surplus of US$316 million. Sri Lanka ranked 17th of 215 export destinations and 54th of 218 suppliers.

What does Pakistan export to Sri Lanka?

The largest exports to Sri Lanka in FY2024-25 were cereals, maize (corn) (US$42.4 million); cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) (US$40.6 million); cotton woven fabrics denim>200g/sq m (US$28.5 million); vegetables, potatoes (other than seed) (US$28.4 million) and vegetables, alliaceous (US$24.7 million).

What does Pakistan import from Sri Lanka?

The largest imports from Sri Lanka in FY2024-25 were betal leaves (US$13.5 million); other vegetables mate used for brooms (US$4.4 million); nuts, edible (US$3.4 million); rubber, natural (excluding latex) (US$3.4 million) and cellulose fibre-cement, articles or the like (US$2.9 million).

Where do these figures come from?

From the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics' customs record of every shipment, by product code and partner country, for each fiscal year (July to June). Values are in rupees as published; the US-dollar figures use the year's average SBP exchange rate.

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