Pakistan’s textile exports hit $18 billion in FY2025-26 as overall exports fall

Pakistan’s textile and apparel exports reached a four-year high of $18 billion in FY2025-26, rising 0.3% even as the country’s overall exports contracted by 5.9%, according to PTC’s first Annual Export Performance Report.

Covering July 2025 to June 2026, the report was shared with government decision-makers. PTC put Pakistan’s total exports at $30.14 billion, down from $32.04 billion, while textile and apparel earnings increased from $17.95 billion to $18 billion. The sector consequently accounted for approximately 60% of national export earnings.

The assessment examines Pakistan’s export performance across product categories and markets, using HS-6 data from the Pakistan Single Window and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Its textile and apparel analysis also breaks down performance by individual HS chapter, providing a detailed view of changes within the sector.

PTC identified a continuing shift towards value-added textiles, with finished products taking a larger share of the country’s textile export earnings. Raw materials and intermediate products, by contrast, continued to lose ground, revealing a widening difference in performance between the two parts of the industry.

Apparel and made-up textile articles covered by HS Chapters 61-63 earned $14.98 billion, an increase of 1.1% from a year earlier. Their share of textile exports reached 83.2%, compared with 77% in FY2021-22, underlining the growing contribution of these products to the sector’s earnings.

Woven apparel, classified under Chapter 62, delivered the strongest performance. Exports in that category rose 3.9% to a record $4.295 billion, making it the leading growth performer among the finished-product categories detailed in the assessment.

Other made-up articles under Chapter 63 generated $5.705 billion, a rise of 0.6%. Knitwear under Chapter 61 moved in the opposite direction, with export earnings slipping 0.7% to $4.979 billion.

Exports of raw materials and intermediate products covered by HS Chapters 50-60 dropped 3.4% to $3.03 billion, their lowest level in five years. That compares with $4.50 billion in FY2021-22, a decline that PTC’s assessment linked to persistent weaknesses in the upstream portion of Pakistan’s textile value chain.