{"id":18047,"date":"2026-10-06T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=18047"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:05:26","slug":"sri-lanka-apparel-export-earnings-drop-by-7-4-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=18047","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka apparel export earnings drop by 7.4% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earnings from Sri Lankan apparel exports declined by 7.4% in August 2026 compared to the corresponding month in the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Central Bank of Sri Lanka export figures revealed that earnings fell to 434.8 million US dollars in August 2026, down from 469.6 million US dollars recorded in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cumulative apparel export earnings for the first eight months of 2026 amounted to 3,108.3 million US dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This reflects a 6.3% contraction compared to the 3,318.1 million US dollars generated during the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall textile and apparel exports experienced an 8.4% drop in August, alongside a 6.7% decline across the January-August period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The performance underscores ongoing challenges confronting the island\u2019s primary foreign exchange-earning sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : Hiru News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earnings from Sri Lankan apparel exports declined by 7.4% in August 2026 compared to the corresponding month in the previous year. Central Bank of Sri Lanka export figures revealed that earnings fell to 434.8 million US dollars in August 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sinhala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18049,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions\/18049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}