Monthly goods imports (free-on-board value, balance-of-payments basis) — what Pakistan spends on goods bought from abroad, from crude oil to machinery to edible oil.
Source: SBP EasyData (BPM6 basis) / Pakistan Bureau of Statistics advance release, monthly.
Pakistan's import bill is dominated by energy (crude oil, petroleum products, and LNG), machinery and industrial equipment, and raw materials for the textile industry, alongside edible oil and other food staples.
This figure is reported on a free-on-board (FOB) and balance-of-payments (BPM6) basis, matching Pakistan's official current account methodology — the same basis Trade Balance and Exports on this dashboard use.
Because energy makes up such a large share of the bill, Pakistan's import spending is highly sensitive to global oil and gas prices — a global energy price spike raises the import bill even if the physical volume of oil imported doesn't change.
Pakistan's import bill, measured against export earnings and remittances, is the core arithmetic behind the trade deficit and current account deficit — a persistently large gap forces the country to draw down foreign reserves or borrow to make up the difference.
Because energy and industrial inputs dominate imports, the import bill is also a channel through which global commodity price swings and Rupee depreciation directly raise domestic costs — imported inflation is a real and recurring feature of Pakistan's price dynamics.