According to the Taliban Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Afghanistan exports to Pakistan, India, and Tajikistan brought in close to $1 billion over the previous seven months, Pakistan Observer reports.
Jawad Dabeer, the Taliban Ministry of Industry and Commerce’s Head of Information and Public Relations said that Afghanistan’s exports have brought in close to $1 billion over the past seven months.
According to Dabeer’s tweet dated Saturday, November 6, the Afghan exports to Pakistan, India, and Tajikistan had topped $743 million, $207 million, and $23 million, respectively. The increase in Afghan exports to Pakistan was earlier noted by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in a report on Friday, November 4.
The SIGAR report states that between 2021 and 2022, Afghanistan exported 796 million dollars to Pakistan.
Coal looks to be Afghanistan’s main export good, with a daily shipment of 10,000 tons, and its price has increased in reaction to the spike in energy costs brought on by the crisis in the Ukraine.
Coal now costs $280 a ton, up from $90 a year ago. Despite this, Afghanistan is currently paying $40 less per ton for coal than the rest of the world. As a result of international sanctions, SIGAR claims that Afghanistan has had the highest trade with Pakistan, putting Pakistan at the top of the list of Afghan export destinations.
