A group of fashion brands and retailers including Gap and Wal Mart working to improve safety in Bangladeshi factories, are still committed to sourcing from the country despite a series of attacks claimed by "Islamist militants".

Exports accelerated 9.27 percent year-on-year to $2.83 billion in March on the back of higher shipments of garment, leather and leather goods, and jute and jute goods.

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The government will export raw jute to Nepal as jute millers of the Himalayan nation have urged Bangladesh to help save their local industry, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said yesterday.

Bangladesh is looking to export $2 billion worth of products to Japan over the next three years, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said

Exports grew 4.71 percent year-on-year to $2.75 billion in August, returning from a 12 percent fall in the previous month, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau.

Effective policy and its timely implementation are crucial for the garment sector in Bangladesh to tap the potential that exporters, the government and international organisations often discuss.

Garment exports to Japan rose 14.02 percent to $652.55 million in fiscal 2014-15 partly due to relaxed rules of origin for Bangladeshi knitwear.

Garment exports declined 11.96 percent year-on-year to $2.21 billion in July, as political crisis during January-March affected orders.

Exports of leather and leather goods crossed $1 billion for the second year in fiscal 2014-15, according to data from the Export

Exports fell 12 percent year-on-year to $2.62 billion in July, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau.

US congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney supports Bangladesh's persistent call for restoration of trade benefits for exports to the US market.

Bangladesh will begin exporting bandwidth -- 10 gigabits per second -- to India's northeastern state of Tripura within the first week of September, officials said.

India is likely to bring in rules to make it compulsory for sugar mills to export millions of tonnes of surplus supplies to support local

Bangladeshi businesses should export more to the Indian market of 1.2 billion people to narrow the huge bilateral trade gap between the countries, Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran said yesterday.

Export earnings from the country's eight export processing zones grew 10.69 percent year-on-year to $6.11 billion in the last fiscal year.

Garment owners yesterday completed the payments of salaries and bonuses to workers ahead of Eid.

Garment exports to the US, the country's single largest export destination, rose 7.09 percent year-on-year in the January-May period on the back of a rebound in the American economy.

Exports rose 3.35 percent year-on-year to $31.2 billion in fiscal 2014-15, a senior Bangladesh Bank official said.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday called for reducing tax at source on exports of garments to a tolerable level from the proposed 1 percent for the sake of the country's highest foreign currency earning sector.