{"id":127441,"date":"2022-07-29T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127441"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:40:24","slug":"june-export-earnings-up-20-to-us-1208-2-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/29\/june-export-earnings-up-20-to-us-1208-2-mn\/","title":{"rendered":"June export earnings up 20% to US$ 1,208.2 Mn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Earnings from the merchandise exports increased by 20 % y-o-y to US$ 1,208.2 Mn in June 2022 as&amp;nbsp;per the data released by the Sri Lanka Customs. This was mainly due to the increase in earnings from&amp;nbsp;export of Apparel &amp;amp; Textiles, Rubber based products, Coconut based products, Food &amp;amp; Beverages&amp;nbsp;and Seafood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major product sectors except Tea and Spices &amp;amp; Concentrates; Apparel &amp;amp; Textiles, Rubber-based&amp;nbsp;products, Coconut based products, Electrical &amp;amp; Electronic components and Food &amp;amp; Beverages,&amp;nbsp;Seafood and Ornamental fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seafood and Ornamental fish recorded increased exports in June 2022.&lt;br \/>&lt;br \/>Exports of Apparel &amp;amp; Textiles increased by 36.85% y-o-y to US$ 566.78 Mn in June 2022. &lt;br \/>&lt;br \/>The increase was driven by both Apparel and Textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Export earnings from Rubber and Rubber Finished products have increased by 7.18% y-o-y to $&amp;nbsp;102.36 million in June 2022, with good performance in exports of Pneumatic &amp;amp; Retreated Rubber&amp;nbsp;Tyres &amp;amp; Tubes (15.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On monthly analysis, export earnings of kernel products, fiber products and shell products categorized&amp;nbsp;under the Coconut based products increased by 30.15%, 1.63% and 21.3% respectively in June 2022&amp;nbsp;compared to June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Export earnings from Seafood increased by 130.75% to US$ 36.39 Mn in June 2022 compared to&amp;nbsp;June 2021. The expansion was contributed mainly by higher exports of Frozen fish (89.3%), Fresh&amp;nbsp;fish (219.18%) and Shrimps (219.25%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Earnings from the merchandise exports increased by 20 % y-o-y to US$ 1,208.2 Mn in June 2022 as&amp;nbsp;per the data released by the Sri Lanka Customs. This was mainly due to the increase in earnings from&amp;nbsp;export of Apparel &amp;amp; Textiles, Rubber based products, Coconut based products, Food &amp;amp; Beverages&amp;nbsp;and Seafood. Major product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127441","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=127441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}