Enhancement of exports from Pakistan is highly essential for its economic growth. Present study is an attempt leading to empirical modeling and forecasting of cotton yi;lrn export from Pakistan to assess its future prospects up to the year 2010. The data used in this study \'Vere collected from secondary sources such as Pakistan Central Cotton Committee, Export Promotion Bureau, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association, etc. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model wCisapplied on the collected data. Various diagnostic checks were carried out for analysis of data which showedtty:tt ARIMA 1,2,1 is an appropriate model for time series data of cotton yarn export from the year 1971 to 1995:Tpe forecasts exhibited that up to the year 2010 there will be a significant improvement in the exports of cottcnvarn.
