Investor Presentaiton
Independent Review of
RBD
Bangladesh's Development
Volume-driven Export Earnings
Table: Bangladesh exports to US: Value, Price & Volume effects
FY21 (Jul-Mar)
Percentage increase
FY 22 (Jul-Mar)
HTS Code
Volume
(in
Value
(in
million
millions)
Per Unit Volume
price (in
(in USD) millions)
Value (in
million
Per Unit price
(in USD)
Per unit
Value
Volume
price
dollars)
dollars)
61 (Knit)
814.6
1456.4
1.8
1,141.7
2,377.3
2.1
63.2%
40.2%
16.7%
62 (Woven)
569.3
2802.4
4.9
747.0
3900.1
5.2
39.2% 31.2%
6.1%
Overall
1383.9
4258.8
3.1
1,888.7
6,277.4
3.3
47.4% 36.5%
6.5%
Source: Estimations based on USITC, n.d.
□ Also to note, Bangladesh export growth has been mostly volume-driven.
Buyers and brands have been able to pass on the rise in the price of the
key inputs going into apparels export (cotton, yarn and fabrics, with price
of cotton rising by more than 50.0% in April 2022 compared to
corresponding period of 2021.
This is true both for the US and the EU markets (more for woven-RMG).
CPD (2022): State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2021-22 (Third Reading)
83View entire presentation