Export of cotton cloth registered an increase by 12.98 percent in February 2018 and reached $176.295 million over $156.037 million for the same month a year before while export of yarn other than cotton yarn increased by 52.44 percent, soaring to $2.282 million from $1.497 million. Export of knitwear increased by 13.43 percent in February 2018 to $200.807 million from $177.037 million for the same month of the last fiscal year while export of readymade garments increased by 7.79 percent to $212.968 million from $197.578 million during the period under review.
Growth of 20.89 percent was recorded by export of art, silk & synthetic textile with export increasing to $24.712 million in February 2018 from $20.442 million in February 2017, export of made-up articles, (excl. towels & bed wear) increased by 11.33 percent to $55.834 million from US $50.154 million and export of other textile increased by 0.61 percent to $33.34 million in February 2018 from $33.140 million for the same month of last fiscal year.
However, export of raw cotton decreased by 82.18 percent to $589,000 in February 2018 from $3.3 million in February 2017, export of bed wear went down by 3.27 percent to $171.65 million from $177.449 million and export of towel decreased by 9.26 percent to $64.364 million in February 2018 from $70.930 million as well as export of tents, canvas and tarpauline decreased by 77.85 percent to $3.015 million in February 2018 from $13.610 million in February 2017.
A growth of 7.17 percent was also recorded by export of textile group during the July-February 2018 over the same period of the last fiscal year with export increasing to $8.793 billion from $8.205 billion.
Export of raw cotton posted a growth of 38 percent to $55.551 million from $40.255 million during the period under review, cotton yarn export increased by 1.87 percent to $859.716 million from $843.953 million and cotton cloth export with 0.4 percent growth reached $1.425 billion from $1.424 billion in the last fiscal year.
Export of bed wear posted a growth of 4.51 percent during the aforementioned period with total export increasing to $1.477 billion in the current fiscal year from $1.413 billion for the same period of last fiscal year. Export of readymade garments posted a growth of 13.08 percent to $1.695 billion from $1.499 billion for the last fiscal year.