Business Desk :
Bangladesh has recorded the highest ever single month export earnings of $4.16 billion in September thanks to the strong rebound of garment shipment.
The amount is 37.99 per cent higher than last year September’s $3.01 billion and 39.17 per cent higher than the monthly target of $2.99 billion, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).
In the first three months of the current fiscal year, Bangladesh earned from exports $11.02 billion, which is 11.37 per cent higher than the same period last year’s $9.89 billion and 5.65 per cent higher than the periodic target of $10.43 billion.
In these July-September period in 2021, some $9.05 billion came from garment items, which registered 11.48 per cent year-on-year growth.
Some $5.16 billion came from knitwear shipment, which posted a 15.69 per cent year-on-year growth.
Woven export also registered a strong positive growth after nearly one and a half years with the reopening of the economies especially in the western world.
Woven garment fetched $3.89 billion in the three months to September this year, a 6.35 per cent year-on-year rise, according to EPB data.
