ISLAMABAD: Mobile phone
import into the country decreased by 18.25 per cent in first four months (July-October) of the fiscal year 2016-17 as compared to same period of last year.
Accordi
ng to latest dat
a released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the mobile phone
import declined to $198.198
million in July-October (2016-17) from $242.456
million in the same period of preceding fiscal year. On yearly and monthly basis, the
imports in October 2016 also decreased by 25.81 per cent and 4.12 per cent when compared to the
import of October 2015 and September 2016.
The
import in October went down to $51.636
million from $69.596
million in October 2015 and $53.855
million in 2016. The overall telecom
imports also declined by 14.93 per cent to $381.989
million in July-October (2016-17), from $449.018
million in the first four months of previous year. On month-on-month basis
the telecom
import rose to $104.295
million in October, 2016 from $103.224
million in September, 2016, thus showing an increase of 1.04 per cent.
While on yearly basis,
the telecom
import decreased by 23.44 per cent as the
import in October, 2015 was recorded at $136.229
million.
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