{"id":122377,"date":"2022-01-25T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T23:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122377"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T23:20:03","slug":"export-earnings-in-november-2021-hit-record-usd-1-211-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/25\/export-earnings-in-november-2021-hit-record-usd-1-211-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Export earnings in November 2021 hit record USD 1.211 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Earnings from exports in November 2021 have recorded the highest monthly export value in history, notching up a total of USD 1.211 billion, says the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsl.gov.lk\/sites\/default\/files\/cbslweb_documents\/press\/pr\/press_20220125_external_sector_performance-2021-november-e.pdf\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;issued by CBSL\u2019s Economic Research Department, this brings the cumulative export figures for the January to November period, to USD 11.345 billion, which is a 24.9% improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also marks the sixth consecutive month of above USD 1.0 billion of exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, import expenditure also increased at a higher rate in November 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting the favourable impact of increased exports, the merchandise trade deficit narrowed to US dollars 553 million in November 2021 compared to US dollars 600 million in November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourist arrivals continued to gather momentum with a notable increase over the previous month, showing strong signs of revival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A further moderation of workers\u2019 remittances was observed in November 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weighted average spot exchange rate in the interbank market continued to hover around Rs. 202 per US dollar during the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Earnings from exports in November 2021 have recorded the highest monthly export value in history, notching up a total of USD 1.211 billion, says the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). According to the&nbsp;press release&nbsp;issued by CBSL\u2019s Economic Research Department, this brings the cumulative export figures for the January to November period, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}