The country's bedwear export touched $1.124 billion mark in July-December 2017, higher by 6.22 percent, official figures say. Increase in bed-wear export now stands at $65.787 million in July-December 2017 from $1.058 million in July-December 2016, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics indicates. Bed wear export volume grew by 2.41 percent or 4295 metric tons to 182,374 metric tons in July-December 2017 from 178,079 metric tons in July-December 2016.

In December 2016, bedwear export scaled up to $178.987 million from $170.064 million in December 2015, up by 4.07 percent or $8.923 million. In term of volume, bed-wear export surged by 7 percent or 1836 metric tons to 28,711 metric tons in December 2016 from 26,875 metric tons in December 2015.

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