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Export earnings up by 41 percent
Wed, Jan 5th, 2011 9:07 pm
Dhaka, Jan 5 (bdnews24.com)Export revenue has exceeded $10 billion in the first six months (July Dec) of the current fiscal, according to the Export Promotion Bureau.
The revenue is 41 percent higher than that of the last year during the same period.
Export earnings stood at $7.27 billion in the first six months of the last year and it rose to $1.26 billion within the same timeframe of the current fiscal.
Export target for the first half of current fiscal was $8.76 billion, which exceeded by 17 percent.
Export revenue rose to 67.76 percent in December last year.
Commodities that saw an increase in export revenue were knitwear (43.39 percent), woven garment (40.79 percent), golden fiber and its products (58.33 percent), home textile (77.75 percent), frozen food (52.92 percent), leather (31.27 percent), leather goods (171.31 percent) and agro products (11.48 percent).
At the same time, there was an increase in tobacco (63.36 percent), plastic products (36.17 percent), handicrafts (22.83 percent), Caps (73.32 percent), watch and clock accessories (145.03 percent), shoes (49.29 percent), water transport (1924.72 percent), ceramics (6.61 percent) and electronics (106.92 percent).
But some other items saw a drop in earning tea (68.41 percent), medicine (2 percent), cement, salt and stone (44 percent), chemicals (19.64 percent), wood and furniture ( 40.91 percent), bicycle (10.21 percent), pulp (100 percent) and press materials (12.24 percent)
Export target for the current fiscal has been set at $18.50 billion, which is 14.16 percent higher than last year's export revenue.
Export growth in 2009-10 fiscal was 4.11 percent.
Export earnings up by 41 percent
Wed, Jan 5th, 2011 9:07 pm
Dhaka, Jan 5 (bdnews24.com)Export revenue has exceeded $10 billion in the first six months (July Dec) of the current fiscal, according to the Export Promotion Bureau.
The revenue is 41 percent higher than that of the last year during the same period.
Export earnings stood at $7.27 billion in the first six months of the last year and it rose to $1.26 billion within the same timeframe of the current fiscal.
Export target for the first half of current fiscal was $8.76 billion, which exceeded by 17 percent.
Export revenue rose to 67.76 percent in December last year.
Commodities that saw an increase in export revenue were knitwear (43.39 percent), woven garment (40.79 percent), golden fiber and its products (58.33 percent), home textile (77.75 percent), frozen food (52.92 percent), leather (31.27 percent), leather goods (171.31 percent) and agro products (11.48 percent).
At the same time, there was an increase in tobacco (63.36 percent), plastic products (36.17 percent), handicrafts (22.83 percent), Caps (73.32 percent), watch and clock accessories (145.03 percent), shoes (49.29 percent), water transport (1924.72 percent), ceramics (6.61 percent) and electronics (106.92 percent).
But some other items saw a drop in earning tea (68.41 percent), medicine (2 percent), cement, salt and stone (44 percent), chemicals (19.64 percent), wood and furniture ( 40.91 percent), bicycle (10.21 percent), pulp (100 percent) and press materials (12.24 percent)
Export target for the current fiscal has been set at $18.50 billion, which is 14.16 percent higher than last year's export revenue.
Export growth in 2009-10 fiscal was 4.11 percent.
