{"id":46,"date":"2026-05-07T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nation.com.pk\/07-May-2026\/scci-chief-expresses-concern-widening-trade-deficit"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:41:04","slug":"9e087f159d2e66b3f6c5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"SCCI chief expresses concern over widening trade deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar  &#8211;  The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has expressed grave concern over the widening trade deficit, which increased by approximately 20 percent to around $32 billion during the first ten months of FY2025-26, posing serious risk to the country&rsquo;s external account stability and foreign exchange reserves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.com.pk\/07-May-2026\/scci-chief-expresses-concern-widening-trade-deficit\">Read original at The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar  &#8211;  The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has expressed grave concern over the widening trade deficit, which increased by approximately 20 percent to around $32 billion during th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}