Bangladesh’s merchandise export hit a new record of $23 billion in the just concluded fiscal year, 2010-11, representing a 41.5% growth over that of the 2009-10 fiscal.

Increasing export earnings from sectors including leather, footwear, garment, jute, frozen fish and shipbuilding contributed to a significant growth in the country’s overall exports receipts, official data showed on 11 July 2011.

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