{"id":20070,"date":"2026-08-22T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/afghanistan-pakistan-trade-routes-closure-pakistani-exports-losses\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:31:11","slug":"afghanistan-pakistan-trade-routes-closure-pakistani-exports-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/afghanistan-pakistan-trade-routes-closure-pakistani-exports-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Afghanistan-Pakistan Trade Routes Costs Pakistani Exports Billions of Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prolonged closure of trade routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan has led to a sharp decline in trade between the two countries and has left Pakistani exporters with losses of about $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics said bilateral trade volume between Afghanistan and Pakistan fell by about 28% in 2025 compared with the previous year, reaching $1.77 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the institute&#8217;s assessment, the closure of trade routes has caused Pakistan&#8217;s exports to lose nearly $177 million a month on average.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan and Pakistan conduct a significant portion of their trade through border crossings, and any disruption along these routes usually has a direct impact on exports, imports and the movement of commercial goods on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolonged closure of Afghanistan-Pakistan trade routes cuts bilateral trade and costs Pakistani exporters about $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}