Chai craze! Pakistanis consume over $336 million worth of tea in 6 months

 Tea brings into Pakistan encountered a 5.53% leap during the initial a half year of the ongoing financial year, demonstrating a proceeded with relationship with the brew, information from the Pakistan Department of Measurements (PBS) showed.

The tea brings into the nation expanded up to $336.423 million during July-December (2023-24) contrasted with the imports of $318.798 million in July-December (2022-23), as per PBS information.

As far as amount, the imports flooded by 9.12% as the nation imported 139,751 metric lots of tea during the period under audit contrasted with the imports of 128,068 metric tons.

In the interim, on a year-on-year premise, the tea imports during December 2023 diminished by 16.80% to $58.869 million from last December's $70.759 million.

The imports of the ware; be that as it may, saw an increment of 9.81% in December 2023 when contrasted with the imports of $53.608 million in November 2023, as per PBS information.

The general nutrition class brings into the country during the principal half of the ongoing financial year saw a diminishing of 19.48%.

The food imports during July-December (2023-24) were recorded at $3,957.188 billion as against the imports of $4,914.278 billion during the year before.

It is relevant to make reference to here that the country's general product import/export imbalance shrunk by 34.29% during the principal half of the ongoing monetary year contrasted with the relating time of the year before.

The Import/export imbalance from July-December (2023-24) was recorded at $11.148 billion as against the shortfall of $16.965 billion in July-December (2022-23), showing negative development of 34.29%.

During the period under survey, the commodities expanded by 5.17% to $14.981 billion contrasted with the products of $14.244 billion during the relating time of last year, as indicated by the most recent PBS information.

Then again, the imports limited by 16.28% and were recorded at $26.129 billion contrasted with $31.209 billion last year.