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Exports register 13pc growth in 8 months

Star Business Report
Exports in the first eight months of the current financial year amounted to US$5,415 million, posting a 13 percent growth over the correspond-ing period of the lastfinancialyear.
Exports in February 2005, especially, saw a mammoth boost fetching US$624 million, recording a tremendous 35 percent growth. Exports amounted to $-162 million in February 200-1, according jo EPB statistics.
Earlier, considering the poor performance in January and possible adverse effect of quota phaseout on readymade garments, the Export
Promotion Bureau (EPB) kept the strategic February export target low, which was $606 million. The target for the FY2004-05 was set at $8,565 million and the average monthly target at $714 million.
Knitwear maintained a strong 38 percent growth during July-February period of the FY20O4-05 than last Fiscal's same period. Knitwear export saw a big 82 percent boost in February2005 alone.
Exports felt the sting of the quota phaseout in January 2005, with earnings from woven products plummetingby21 percent compared to thesame month in2004.
Hie woven export also suffered a
major slump in a single month. Export growth in the July-December period of the current financial year was I5.19percentwhileftcamedown to 10.51 percent during July-January
period.
Apart from knitwear, export earnings from home textile, chemical and agricultural products, ceramic tableware, electronics, tea and handicrafts crossed their respective targets during the period.
However, earnings in woven garment. leather, footwear, bi-cycle and engineeringproducts fellshortoftheir respective targets but saw positive grmvih in the first eight months of the current financial year compared to the
last fiscal's same period.
Frozen food, jute goods, raw jute, petroleum byproducts and textile fabrics, however, faced setback during theperiod.
VMr.cn garment exports amounted to $2413 million during July-February period, marking a six percent growth than last fiscal's same period.
Jute goods export fetched $157 million in the first eight months of the current Fiscal, recording a seven percent negative growth than last fiscal's same period.
Frozen food exports amounted to $155 million during the period, showing a huge 38 percent decline than last fiscal's corresponding period.