Mobile Phone Imports Reach $ 136.917 Mln During First Two Months
Fakhir Rizvi Published September 19, 2018 | 04:40 PM
Mobile phone imports in the country have cost US $ 136.917 million to national exchequer in current fiscal year (July-August) 2018-19 as compared to US $ 129.093 million during same period last year, registering a 6.06 per cent growth.
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Sep, 2018 ) :mobile phone imports in the country have cost US $ 136.917 million to national exchequer in current fiscal year (July-August) 2018-19 as compared to US $ 129.093 million during same period last year, registering a 6.06 per cent growth.
Mobile phone imports in August 2018 which stood at US $ 67.67 million, registered a 11 per cent growth as compared to US $ 60.8257 million imports in August 2017.
Last month's figure was lower by 2.27 per cent when compared to US $ 69.24 million in July 2018. These figures were revealed in the latest data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
Overall telecom imports saw a decline of 6.49 per cent during July-August 2018 when compared to same period of last year.
Total imports were recorded at US $ 215.73 million during this period when compared to US $ 230.692 million in July-August 2017, registering a 7.06 per cent growth in August 2018.
This figure stood at US $ 111.544 million in August as compared to US $ 104.187 million during July 2018.
Other telecom apparatus imports witnessed a phenomenal decline of over 22 per cent in July-August 2018 as it stood at US $ 78.81 million against US $ 101.599 million during same period of last year.
When compared to July 2018, other telecom apparatusimports registered 25.56 per cent growth as it was US $ 34.94million compared to US $ 43.87 million in August 2018.
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