Pakistan's garment exports just hit a record. Its textile sector didn't move.

Pakistan just closed the fiscal year with its highest readymade garment exports on record: $4.18 billion, up 5.5% year-on-year, nearly doubling over the past decade (from $1.97 billion in FY16, a 7.8% average annual growth rate) — a figure now closing in on the country's IT services exports.

Here's the detail most buyers miss: that number is finished garments only. Pakistan's textile exports as a whole — yarn, greige fabric, home textiles — barely moved over the same period, up just 0.26%. Two segments of the same supply chain, two very different trajectories.

For anyone evaluating Pakistan as a sourcing base, the useful signal isn't "Pakistani textiles are growing" in general — it's that the segment closest to your finished product is the one actually performing, while the 10% US tariff in effect since July 24 remains the variable to watch on costing.

Sources: Momentum Pakistan, on FY26 RMG exports · Dawn, on stagnant textile exports