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Amir KhanSep 21, 2026

Pakistan imports August 2026: PBS's table puts machinery at $889 million, down 32%, crude at $666 a tonne, and the electrical-machinery call I made on Thursday was wrong

PBS's August import table is up: machinery fell 32% to $889m, electrical machinery to $309m, and the money went to crude at $666 a tonne. July was a bulge, not a wave. What a Q4 buyer locks and what floats.

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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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