{"id":86718,"date":"2025-09-24T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=86718"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:08:11","slug":"afghan-transit-trade-grows-13-in-august-despite-smuggling-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/afghan-transit-trade-grows-13-in-august-despite-smuggling-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan transit trade grows 13% in August despite smuggling curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (Rizwan Abbasi): Despite Pakistan\u2019s stringent measures to curb<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fake-football-busted-in-human-smuggling-attempt-to-japan-fia\/\"> smuggling<\/a>, Afghan transit trade continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>According to official and trade sources, Afghan transit trade recorded a 13% increase on an annual basis in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, on a monthly basis, the overall Afghan transit trade increased by 8% in August 2025, while Afghan exports via Pakistan saw a significant increase of 118%.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Afghan transit trade increased by 9% during July and August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In the first two months of the current fiscal year (July and August), the volume of Afghan transit trade stood at $209 million, compared to $191 million in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of Afghan transit trade in August 2025 was recorded at $108.6 million, which is higher than $104 million in July 2025 and $94.5 million in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, a major decline was recorded in Afghan transit trade during the last two fiscal years.<\/p>\n<p>In the fiscal year 2022-23, the volume of Afghan transit trade was $7.1 billion, which decreased to $2.89 billion in the fiscal year 2023-24. Similarly, in the fiscal year 2024-25, it further decreased to $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, Afghan transit trade recorded a decline of $4.21 billion in the fiscal year 2023-24 and $1.86 billion in the fiscal year 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that Afghanistan&#8217;s transit trade imports via Pakistan have declined by $6.7 billion in the last two years. Government sources say that Pakistan has taken concrete steps to stop smuggling under the guise of transit trade.<\/p>\n<p>The gradual increase in the volume of Afghan transit trade in recent months indicates that regional trade is moving towards a new trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (Rizwan Abbasi): Despite Pakistan\u2019s stringent measures to curb smuggling, Afghan transit trade continues to grow. According to official and trade sources, Afghan transit trade recorded a 13% increase on an annual basis in August 2025. According to the data, on a monthly basis, the overall Afghan transit trade increased by 8% in August 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30871],"class_list":["post-86718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-afghan-transit-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86719,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718\/revisions\/86719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}