Pakistan's Tea Import Bill Rises to $554.9 Million in the First Ten Months of FY2025-26
Pakistan, the world's largest tea importer by volume, spent $554.9 million on tea in the July-to-April stretch of its 2025-26 fiscal year, up about 5% on a year earlier, a demand read for the East African trade that supplies most of it.
Pakistan spent $554.9 million on tea imports in the first ten months of its 2025-26 fiscal year, up from $527.8 million a year earlier, according to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data.
Pakistan is the world's largest tea importer by volume, and buys most of it from Kenya and the wider East African trade sold through the Mombasa auction, so its import spending is a direct read on demand for that tea. The July-to-April figure is about 5% higher than the same stretch a year earlier.
The rise came inside a wider climb: Pakistan's total food import bill reached $7.85 billion over the same ten months, the bureau's data showed, with tea among its larger single food imports. The bill is counted in dollars, so higher world prices lift it for a fixed quantity, and it can grow without a single extra kilogram landing.
That caveat is the point. The figure measures money spent, not leaf shipped, and a higher bill can reflect price as much as volume. For the Kenyan and East African producers who supply most of Pakistan's tea, a larger import bill is a firmer demand signal read against a soft world market, no more than that. This publication reports the number, not a forecast past it.
Sources: Profit by Pakistan Today, "Pakistan's food import bill rises to $7.85 billion" (May 21, 2026), citing Pakistan Bureau of Statistics trade data.