Belt and Road Initiative & Bangladesh
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6.1 Top export partners of Bangladesh
Over the past ten years,
exports to the USA have
grown slower than exports
to Germany.
• As
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1,400
1,200
to
1,000
800
result, exports
a
Germany in Q1 of 2019 was
almost as high as exports to
the USA.
China had not been one of
the traditional markets for
Bangladeshi exports.
China was in the tenth
position in
Bangladesh's
destination.
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case
of
export
600
400
200
Figure: Bangladesh's exports (FOB) to partner
countries, in million USD
2008Q1
2008Q3
2009Q1
2009Q3
2010Q1
201003
2011Q1
2011Q3
2012Q1
2012 Q3
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2013Q1
2013Q3
2014Q1
2014Q3
2015Q1
2015Q3
2016Q1
2016Q3
2017Q1
2017Q3
2018Q1
2018Q3
2019Q1
-United States
-United Kingdom
-China, P.R.: Hong Kong
-Germany
China, P.R.: Mainland
-Taiwan Province of China
Source: Authors' illustration based on data from Direction of Trade Statistics
(DOTS). Available at:
https://data.imf.org/?sk=9D6028D4-F14A-464C-A2F2-59B2CD424B85
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