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Amir KhanSep 17, 2026

Pakistan machinery imports July 2026: $1.31 billion, up 41% in PBS's own table, with electrical machinery up 88% and steel landing at $604 a tonne, 15% cheaper than last year

PBS's July commodity table, read line by line: machinery imports $1,310.9m (+41%), electrical machinery $549.5m (+88%), construction machinery +158%, textile machinery −31%, steel at an implied $604/t (−15%), and $41m of engineering exports. What a buyer does with it and what August will show.

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Zohaib MasoodSep 16, 2026

China industrial output August 2026: the NBS release says factories made 5.2% more and robots 34.6% more while its own buyers invested 7.2% less, and that is why Chinese quotes into Pakistan keep falling

What the 15 September NBS release actually says, paragraph by paragraph: output +5.2%, robots +34.6%, manufacturing investment -2.3%, private investment -10.1%, exports +18.6%. The supply is going abroad, the quotes will stay keen, and the deposit is the thing to protect.

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Uzair bin HaroonSep 14, 2026

Hydraulic oil price in Pakistan: PSO's HYGROL AW 68 went from Rs 771 to Rs 943 a litre in twelve weeks, and the next circular will pass Rs 1,000

PSO re-priced its industrial oils four times between 19 March and 10 June: hydraulic, spindle and way oil up 22 to 25 per cent. The base-oil shortage behind it is not over. What a machine shop does about the drum, the leak and the batch, and a dated call on the next price.

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Zohaib MasoodSep 12, 2026

Diesel, not crude, is the line on a Taxila quote: what the IEA's September report and Rs 403.32 HSD do to a delivery price, and two calls with dates on them

The IEA's September Oil Market Report has Gulf diesel exports at a quarter of pre-war levels and US diesel 94% above. In Pakistan that is HSD at Rs 403.32, Rs 106.87 of it fixed. What goes on a quote from Taxila this week, and two dated predictions.

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Sadaf MasoodSep 11, 2026

Brent at $104, diesel at Rs 403 and a freight index that did not move: index the fuel clause to Rs 296 and sea freight to the carrier's surcharge, with two dated calls

Brent up 8.7% to $104.61, diesel up 6.7% to Rs 403.32, Drewry flat at $4,476. Why a Taxila quotation indexes fuel to Rs 296 and sea freight to the carrier's surcharge, not the index, and two dated calls on the index and the surcharge.

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Uzair bin HaroonSep 10, 2026

China exports August 2026: 6.4 points between the dollar and yuan numbers, and the 2% to 3% it puts on your next Chinese quote by January

China's August customs release gives exports +25.0% in dollars and +18.6% in yuan. The gap is the currency, and it reaches a Chinese dollar quote in Karachi as a 2-3% rise by the first order of 2027, or a quieter part. Four lines for the next PO, and two dated calls.

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Amir KhanSep 9, 2026

China's factory-gate prices rose 3.8% in August, but metal products rose 1.6% and copper inputs 19.8%: which of your Chinese quotes should move, and my call for September

China's August PPI beat consensus at 3.8%, but the NBS table says metal products rose 1.6% at the gate while nonferrous inputs rose 19.8% and steel 0.3%. A welder quote can move; a socket-set quote should not. Plus my call for the September print.

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Zohaib MasoodSep 8, 2026

US hot-rolled coil at $1,205 and Karachi plate at Rs 195,000: what the 50% Section 232 tariff does to a Pakistani fabricator's steel price, and two numbers for 31 December

US HRC is $1,205 a short ton, Karachi 6 mm plate Rs 195,000 a ton, and Baosteel has just added $30 for October. Pakistan imports every ton of hot-rolled coil, so the chain is short. Two dated calls for 31 December, both the author's.

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Sadaf MasoodSep 7, 2026

Honda gave Tata Technologies a whole platform, and Honda Atlas runs at 7.8% gross: what that does to anyone quoting parts in Pakistan

Honda has handed Tata Technologies an end-to-end platform; Honda Atlas Pakistan runs at 7.8% gross. Everything under the platform is now purchasable, price alone will not win it, and the supplier's edge is the first-article date. Two dated calls.

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Uzair bin HaroonSep 6, 2026

Why reshoring stalls: at 11.5%, eight months of stock costs 7.7% of the part, and that is the number a supplier who quotes in weeks is selling

Guardian Bikes left China over a six-to-eight-month lead time, not the $35-versus-$4 wage. At the State Bank's 11.5% that lead time costs up to 7.7% of a part's value in interest alone. What the nearer supplier has to show, and why the rate is not coming down before March.

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Amir KhanSep 6, 2026

Machine Tool Makers Are Building in India: What DN Solutions' Bengaluru Plant Changes for Buyers

DN Solutions opened a ₹600 crore plant in Bengaluru building SVM machining centres at 80% local content. What an India-built VMC does to spares, delivery dates and the quotes a buyer compares, with dated calls for IMTEX 2027 and IMTMA's FY27 figures.

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