DHAKA: Bangladesh’s exports in November rose 5.5 percent from a year earlier to nearly $2.9 billion, driven by stronger garment sales, official data showed on Tuesday.
Exports for July through November, the first five months of the country’s 2016-17 financial year, rose 6.3 percent from a year earlier to $13.69 billion, the Export Promotion Bureau said. Sales of garments, comprising knitwear and woven items, totalled $11.13 billion in July-November, up 6.4 percent from a year earlier.
Garments are the key foreign-exchange earner for the South Asian nation of 160 million, whose low wages and trade deals with Western markets have helped make it the world’s second-largest apparel exporter after China.
