The country's bed-wear export grew to $1.585 billion in July-Mar 2017, up by 5.11 percent, official statistics show. Rise in bed-wear export comes to $77.082 million in July-Mar 2017 from $1.508 billion in July-Mar 2016, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics says. Export volume of bed-wear also showed an increase of eight percent or 195,19 metric tons to 263,814 metric tons in July-Mar 2017 from 244,295 metric tons in July-Mar 2016.

In Mar 2017, bed-wear export went up to $180.482 million from $175.381 million in Mar 2016, depicting a growth of 5.43 percent or $5.101 million. Bed-wear export, in term of quantity, posted just one percent increase or 255 metric tons to 29250 metric tons in March 2017 from 28995 metric tons in March 2016.

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