Pharmaceutical goods' export increase 7.21% in 8 months.

ISLAMABAD -- The export of pharmaceutical goods from the country witness an increase of 7.21 percent during the first eight months of current financial year (2019-20) as compared to the export of corresponding period of last year. The pharmaceutical exports were recorded at US $149.540 million during July-February (2019-20) as against the export of US $139.487 million during July-February (2018-19), showing growth of 7.21 percent, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). In term of quantity, the export of pharmaceutical products also increased by 11.08 percent by going up from 8,568 metric ton to 9,517 metric ton, according to the data. Meanwhile, year- on- year basis the pharmaceutical export also grew by 27.44 percent during the month of February 2020 as compared to the samemonth oflast year.

The pharmaceutical exportsin February 2020 were recorded at US $ 20.303 million against the export of $15.932 million in February 2019, the PBS data revealed. On month- on- month basis, the exports of pharmaceutical product increase by 19.44 percent in February 2020 when compared to...