 The country's export earnings during the ten months of the current fiscal (July 08 to April 09) totalled to US dollar 1,282 crore against US dollar 1,137 crore of the same period of the last fiscal, marking a rise by US dollar 145 crore or 12.76 per cent.
The earnings from export of woven items in ten months of this fiscal totalled at US dollar 490.20 crore, against previous fiscal's US dollar 418.05 crore, according to data of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).
On the other hand, export earnings from knitwear garments in the period stood at US dollar 523.10 crore, against US dollar 439.20 crore during the same period last fiscal, marking a rise by 19.8 per cent.
Earnings from exports of woven garments, terry towels, handicrafts, computer services, chemical fertilizer, medicine, shoes, vegetable, melamine, tobacco, home textiles, textile fabrics marked rise during the period, while that for exports of raw jute, tea, jute goods, electronics, leather, frozen foods, ceramic products, petroleum by-product, bicycle, marked fall.
The export price index during July 08-April 09 marked a rise by 0.42 per cent and the export index in volume rose by 14.47 per cent.
President of Bangladesh Economic Association Dr Kholiquzzaman Ahmed said despite global recession, the export earnings of Bangladesh maintained upward trends as the low- earning people across the globe including USA wear garments of Bangladesh.
The number of low-earning people across the globe has increased and for that the sale of readymade garments from Bangladesh has not reduced, he added. |