Pakistan was the fourth largest fibre/filament producers in the world in 2008, by virtue of it being a major cotton grower. It produced about 8% of global cotton and 1.4% of manmade fibre/filament during the year. It was the fourth largest producers of cotton and sixth largest in case of polyester staple fibre. Area under cotton in Pakistan accounts for 9% of world’s cotton acreage. During 2008, it produced a total of 2.50 million tons of fibres/filaments including 1.96 million tons of cotton and 540,000 tons of manmade fibres. During the year, it was the third largest consumer of fibre/filament with total at 3.28 million tons, following China and India. In 2008, it consumed 2.50 million tons of cotton accounting for 10.3% of global con-sumption and 772,000 tons of manmade fibre/filament. It was the fourth largest con-sumer of polyester staple fibre, sixth largest viscose filament and ninth in viscose staple fibre consumption in the world. Manmade fibre/filament production in Pakistan was impressive during the 1990s posting an annual growth rate of 21.4%. However, the growth lulled to 1.2% per annum during the period 2000-2007 and in 2008 production declined 1.1%. While nylon and polyester managed to remain in positive territory that of acrylic staple and polyester filament yarn declined sharply. Cotton acreage was down 3.3% but higher yield rate (output per hectare) saw production rise 1.1%.