DHAKA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's total exports in the first half of the current 2022-23 fiscal year (July 2022-June 2023) reached over 27 billion U.S. dollars, up 10.58 percent year on year, the latest official data showed.
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data posted on its website showed that Bangladesh earned 27,311.26 million dollars from exports in July-December of 2022, compared to 24,698.55 million dollars a year earlier.
Of the total earnings, the EPB data showed the country's income from ready-made knitwear and woven garment items surged 15.56 percent to nearly 23 billion dollars during the cited period.
In the first half of the current 2022-23 year, the EPB data showed knitwear garment export growth increased 15.42 percent to 12.66 billion dollars while woven garments rose 18.29 percent to 10.34 billion dollars compared with the same period of last fiscal year.
With hefty growth in garment exports, Bangladesh shipped goods of a record high of 5.37 billion U.S. dollars last December, which was 9.33 percent higher than the same month a year ago.
Bangladesh saw exports soar more than 34 percent to 52.08 billion dollars in the 2021-22 fiscal year (July 2021-June 2022), official data showed.
