Exports fell to $17.190 billion in July-March, from $17.727 billion in the same period the previous year. - Reuters photo

KARACHI: Pakistan's trade deficit for the first nine months of the fiscal year 2011/12 (July-June) widened to $16.095 billion, compared with a deficit of $11.289 billion for the same period in the previous year, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

Exports fell to $17.190 billion in July-March, from $17.727 billion in the same period the previous year, according to the bureau.

Imports totalled $33.285 billion, up from $29.016 billion previously.

The trade deficit was $1.496 billion in March and $1.428 billion in February.

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