2017年1-2月，斯里兰卡服装出口下降11%

Sri Lanka's garment exports fall 11% in Jan-Feb '17

The exports of textiles and garments from Sri Lanka decreased by 11.3 per cent to $822.4 million in the first two months of the current year, compared to exports of $927.5 million in the corresponding period of the last year. Clothing exports alone accounted for $776.2 million in January-February 2017, showing a decrease of 11.6 per cent year-on-year.

Textiles and apparel accounted for about 61.95 per cent of all industrial exports made by the South Asian nation during the two-month period, according to the data released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

In fact, the fall in export value has been higher in February compared to January. “Export earnings from textiles and garments contracted by 14.5 per cent to $396 million in February 2017 reflecting a significant decline in garment exports to the EU and the US,” the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said in its report on ‘External Sector Performance – February 2017’.

Sri Lanka’s expenditure on imports of textiles and textile articles also decreased 7.6 per cent to $439.6 million in January-February 2017, as against imports valued at $475.9 million in the corresponding period of the previous year.

The fall in imports was higher in February. “Import of textiles and textile articles, declined by 17.1 per cent in February 2017 in line with the decline in textiles and garments exports,” the central bank said.

The island nation earned $4.884 billion in textiles and apparel exports in 2016, registering a growth of mere 1.3 per cent year-on-year. Of this, clothing exports alone accounted for $4.602 billion, up 1 per cent over previous year’s earnings of $4.555 billion.

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2017年1-2月，斯里兰卡服装出口下降11%

今年头两个月，斯里兰卡的纺织品和服装出口下降了11.3%至82240万美元，而去年同期的出口额为92750万美元。仅在2017年1月至2月，服装出口就占到7.762亿美元，同比下降了11.6个百分点。

根据斯里兰卡央行发布的数据，在这两个月期间，纺织品和服装占南亚国家所有工业出口产品的61.95%。

事实上，2月份出口值的下降比1月份要高。“2017年2月，纺织品和服装出口收入下降14.5%至3.96亿美元，反映出服装出口对欧盟和美国的大幅下降，”斯里兰卡央行在其关于“2017年2月”的对外部门业绩报告中表示。

2017年1月至2月期间，斯里兰卡在纺织品和纺织品进口方面的支出也下降了7.6%至3.496亿美元，而去年同期的进口额为4.759亿美元。

2月份进口的下降幅度更大。该国央行表示:“2017年2月，纺织品和纺织用品的进口额下降了17.1%，这与纺织品和服装出口的下降是一致的。”

2016年，这个岛国的纺织品和服装出口收入为4.884亿美元，同比仅增长1.3%。其中，服装出口仅占4602亿美元，较上年同期的45.5亿美元仅增长了1%。