According to Sri Lanka’s Export Development Board (EDB), the country’s merchandise exports grew in 2014 by 6.7 per cent to be valued at US $ 11.079 billion. For the month of December last year, EDB reported that the exports of provisional merchandise rose by 9 per cent. Earnings from Textiles and Apparels increased 9.26 per cent in 2014 from the previous year and amounted to US $ 4.9 billion, while earnings from industrial products rose 6.1 per cent to US $ 8 billion in 2014. Apparel exports in the month rose by 7.3 per cent to US $ 450 million.
