Pakistan is pursuing the policy of export led economic growth. Present study is an attempt to assess the future prospects of raw cotton export from Pakistan up to the year 20 IO. The data used in this study were collected from secondarv sources like Pakistan Cotton Committee. Karachi Cotton Association, Export Promotion Bureau, etc. Autoregressive integrated moving. average IARIMA) model was applied to the collected data. Various diagnostic checks were used for analvsix of data which revealed that ARIMA 2.1,2 is an appropriate model for time series data on cotton export from 1947 to 1995~ The future forecasts exhibited that export of cotton up to the year 20 I0 will either decline or remain stagnanl. Key words: cotton export, Pakistan, prospects. year 2010
