India tea exports drop as Pakistan cuts purchases

E-Paper | April 30, 2026

MUMBAI: India’s tea exports in April to September fell 5 per cent from a year ago to 101.04 million kg as key buyer Pakistan trimmed purchases, the state-run Tea Board said in a statement on Monday.

Exports to Pakistan fell 48pc during the period to 4.34 million kg, while exports to Iran rose 31.3pc to 10.90 million kg, the board said.

India, the world’s second-biggest tea producer, exports CTC (crush-tear-curl) grade mainly to Egypt, Pakistan and the UK, and the orthodox variety to Iraq, Iran and Russia.

Published in Dawn November 15th, 2016

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Karachiite

Nov 15, 2016 08:32am

No more Indian tea. Stop all tea imports from India. My nation will not sip at tea while our soldiers lay down their lives for us

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time to rise

Nov 15, 2016 08:46am

Stop tea imports from India completely immediately

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Aurora

Nov 15, 2016 09:10am

Pakistani imports were always more than what it could export. Not a good news for average Pakistani will hv to pay more for tea.

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Pehchankaun

Nov 15, 2016 10:31am

Indian tea is the best

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Ahmad

Nov 15, 2016 10:34am

How can only Pakistan imports can affect Indian exports after seeing this? Exports to Pakistan fell 48pc during the period to 4.34 million kg, while exports to Iran rose 31.3pc to 10.90 million kg, the board said. It means there are other countries also who are not importing much Tea(may be people are drinking much more coffee now :) )

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Syed Ahmed

Nov 15, 2016 10:37am

Stop selling onion& tomato will see how long modi sarkar run

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citizen

Nov 15, 2016 10:38am

Good move...Indian economy will be doomed....We can buy tea fron Srilanka, Brazil, Argentina etc..

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BNJ

Nov 15, 2016 10:49am

@Syed Ahmed India is the 2nd largest producer of Onion & Tomato in the world after China !

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sindhi

Nov 15, 2016 10:54am

There will no real long term or even short term impact on them even if true

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Wasif

Nov 15, 2016 10:58am

This is the way forward, if Indian don't change their tone, such economic jolts are the best way for the Pakistan to show their metal. SAY NO TO INDIAN PRODUCTS

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seeker

Nov 15, 2016 12:13pm

@Ahmad My thoughts exactly buddy.

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M. Emad

Nov 15, 2016 03:36pm

South Asian Tea Production (2016-17 estimate): India-1240 million kg, Sri Lanka-340 million kg, Bangladesh-80 million kg.

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Yaqoot

Nov 15, 2016 03:46pm

We should not be importing tea from India

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OMG

Nov 15, 2016 04:07pm

Indian tea routed to Pakistan through Iran it costs more to Pakistan.

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Shiraj

Nov 15, 2016 08:25pm

Borders must be sealed completely.

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ZULFIKAR

Nov 15, 2016 09:49pm

@Pehchankaun You Better export to other Countries

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Tariq, Lahore

Nov 15, 2016 11:19pm

@Pehchankaun - Disagree! For our style 'dhood-patti' Kenya tea is much more suited!

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sana-1

Nov 15, 2016 11:27pm

Pakistan should ban all the products from India, we dont need anything from this country..

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GREAT

Nov 16, 2016 01:41am

@time to rise I am with u so do it asap.

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Khan

Nov 16, 2016 06:45am

Why buy from India at all when Sri Lankan tea is better and Kenyan tea is comparable? We weren't buying top quality Indian tea anyway, so replacing it will be easy.

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Samrat

Nov 16, 2016 08:02am

@ZULFIKAR Oh, we're already doing that.

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