Pakistan’s petroleum import bill drops 29% YoY to $1bn in July

Mettis Global reported, citing data from the State Bank of Pakistan, that the petroleum group's import bill came to $1.09bn in July 2026. That amount is 28.71% lower than the $1.28bn recorded in July 2025. The year-on-year comparison is therefore drawn against the same month one year earlier.

Petroleum product imports dropped 29.39% month on month against the $1.55bn seen in June 2026, the release showed. Petroleum products made up 17.76% of the total import bill in July 2026, indicating how much of overall trade this category still represented. Taken together, the monthly and yearly figures point to a smaller petroleum import outlay during the month.

Total imports, by contrast, rose 0.03% month on month from $6.15bn in June 2026. Overall imports had risen 13.35% year on year to that $6.15bn level in June, according to the same report. The report therefore presents July's petroleum figures against a broadly stable headline import bill.