The country's export earnings from apparel products registered an upward growth during the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2014-15, helping reverse a negative growth in overall export receipts till the previous month.
The country fetched $4.99 billion from knit products during this July-November period, showing a two per cent growth. The earnings witnessed a 0.90 per cent growth during July-October period, according to official data released on Monday.
Earnings from woven products stood at $4.69 billion during July-November, registering a 1.26 per cent negative growth.
However, both the items failed to achieve their respective target set for the period by 1.41 per cent and 10.57 per cent respectively.
In the meantime, the single-month earnings in November 2014, amounting to $2.41 billion, witnessed a 9.27 per cent growth. The receipts also surpassed the target by 5.53 per cent for the month, the data revealed.
In October 2014, the earnings witnessed a negative growth of 7.63 per cent with $1.95 billion.
The overall export earnings during the July-November period stood at $12.07 billion, which was $11.95 billion in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
However, the overall earnings fell short of target by 5.23 per cent.
Earnings from jute and jute goods stood at $348.64 million in July-November, showing a 4.89 per cent growth. It surpassed the target by 8.80 per cent.
Frozen food exports recorded 7.40 per cent negative growth in the period under review, but surpassed the target by 7.25 per cent. Leather and leather products fetched $463.12 million, but fell short of the target by 13.60 per cent.
Besides, agricultural products and handicrafts exports witnessed 23.11 per cent and 21.25 per cent growth respectively in July-November period of the current fiscal.
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Apparel items\\\' export earnings rise 2pc in July-November
FE Report | Published: December 09, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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