Except for crude oil, garments and textiles, and footwear were the first two sectors to surpass the US$1-billion mark in terms of export value. Garments and textiles attained nearly US$1.75 billion, a 38-percent increase over 2005, with half of the earnings coming from exports to the US market. Even though an anti-dumping duty has been applied to footwear exports to the EU market, footwear export revenues increased by 20 percent to US$1.1 billion. 

Of the nine industrial staples, only bicycles and bicycle parts exports only earned US$62 million over the past four months, with a year-on-year decrease of about 5-percent.

Rice exports in the same period dropped sharply in terms of both volume and value. More than 1.7 million tonnes of rice was shipped abroad, earning US$466 million or a decrease of 8 percent. Exports of other farm products, including pepper, tea, coffee and rubber, continued to rise.