Putting up an outstanding performance, Bangladesh’s Export Processing Zones-based (EPZs) manufacturing units have reportedly increased their export earnings by 9.62 per cent in the current financial year, raking in US $ 3.18 billion in foreign currency already even as Bangladesh’s overall export earnings in the H1 rose by 7.84 per cent to US $ 16.08 billion as compared US $ 14.91 billion in the previous year.
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According to the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA), peaceful working environment, higher productivity and one-stop service facilities are the main reasons behind the rise in the export earnings that goes to state that in the first half of the current financial year, manufacturing units at the EPZs exported several products to the global markets thereby earning US $ 3.18 billion as compared to US $ 2.9 billion in the same period last year, posting an increase of 9.62 per cent.
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At present, there are eight export-processing zones in the country operating under BEPZA producing wide range of products – apparels, textile and knitting products, leather products and footwear, bullet proof jackets, mask, optical goods, toys, jewellery, electronic and electrical products, motor car parts, mobile phone parts, camera lens and parts, bicycle, battery, golf shafts, etc.
According to figures provided by BEZA, Chittagong EPZ outshone the seven other EPZ, earning US $ 1.2 billion in the first six months of the current financial year. Chittagong EPZ was followed by the Dhaka EPZ which fetched US $ 1 billion in the same period and was trailed by Karnaphuli EPZ (US $ 390 million) followed by Adamjee EPZ (US $ 257 million), Comilla EPZ (US $ 145 million), Mongla EPZ (US $ 45.57 million), Ishwardi EPZ (US $ 55.41 million) and Uttara EPZ, which posted earnings of US $ 87.22 million.
