Bangladesh's July-January trade deficit shrinks over 65 pct

DHAKA, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's trade deficit in the first seven months of the 2023-24 fiscal year from July 2023 to June 2024 narrowed by 65.45 percent to 4.63 billion U.S. dollars, showed the latest data of the Bangladesh Bank.

The central bank data showed that the country's import payment was 36.03 billion dollars, down 18.17 percent in the July-January period of the current fiscal year, while earnin