Report by Engineering Post
Import of machinery by Pakistan increased by 10.3 percent to US $ 7.9 billion during the first three quarters of July-March 2026, equivalent to 15.5 percent of total imports.
This increase was recorded on the back of a 27.3 percent increase in telecommunication (telecom) machinery, valued at US $ 2.0 billion. Although it was mainly concentrated in mobile phone imports, a 26.0 percent increase was also recorded in telecom apparatus, consistent with the federal government’s increasing focus on the digitization of the national economy.
Power-generating machinery import increased by 16.2 %.to US $ 632 million, strategically aligned with the national infrastructure goals and e enhancing domestic capacity in the power sector.
Office machinery, including data processing equipment, imports increased to US $ 521 million , and imports also increased to US $ 450 million as industrial, especially in the export-oriented textile sector, picked up .Agriculture machinery also increased by 18.7 percent, duly supported by mechanization incentives, while consumer durables, mainly electronics, declined by 20.6 percent during the period under report based on information available from the official sources.
