Export – Import Bank of Pakistan
Last updated on 23 Feb 2024
Key facts
Pakistan’s official export-import bank and development finance institution supporting export credit, guarantees and trade development.
PUBLIC
2023
Credit rating (sovereign) (Fitch)
CCC
Foreign currency
Country trade data
2024 top export sectors
Textiles and clothing
53%
Food products
18%
Vegetable products
10%
Chemicals
5%
Leather products
4%
2024 export destinations
Products
- Insures export receivables against non-payment caused by specified commercial and political risks
- Commercial-risk cover up to 85%; political-risk cover up to 95% where applicable
- Protects a confirming bank against non-payment by an issuing bank
- Designed to increase bank risk appetite for exporter trade-finance transactions
- Official site describes lending products alongside credit insurance products; details to be confirmed from product circulars
Policies
- EXIM Bank of Pakistan is Pakistan’s official ECA and provides credit insurance and lending products.
- Trade credit insurance may insure export receivables up to 85% against specified commercial risks and up to 95% for certain political events.
- Documentary Credit Insurance Policy protects confirming banks against non-payment by issuing banks.
News
- 2026: EXIM Bank of Pakistan increases cooperation with multilateral institutions to mobilize trade-finance capacity for exporters.
- 2025: Pakistan and Saudi EXIM Bank sign cooperation arrangements to expand trade-finance and export-credit opportunities.
- 2025: EXIM Bank of Pakistan launches enhanced export-finance and guarantee products for SMEs and non-traditional exporters.
- 2025: Pakistan advances reforms to strengthen the operational capacity and capitalization of EXIM Bank of Pakistan.
- 2023: Pakistan's Export-Import Bank formally launched
