{"id":28390,"date":"2025-06-27T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28390"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:16:46","slug":"sri-lankas-exports-rise-7-1-percent-in-first-five-months-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28390","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Exports Rise 7.1 Percent in First Five Months of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka\u2019s export sector is showing strong momentum in 2025, with total earnings reaching\u00a0<strong>US$ 6.93 billion<\/strong>\u00a0in the first five months of the year marking a\u00a0<strong>7.14% increase<\/strong>\u00a0compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<strong>May alone<\/strong>, total export earnings from merchandise and services reached&nbsp;<strong>US$ 1.39 billion<\/strong>, reflecting a&nbsp;<strong>6.35% year-on-year growth<\/strong>. Merchandise exports for the month hit&nbsp;<strong>US$ 1.03 billion<\/strong>, while the service sector brought in&nbsp;<strong>US$ 358.14 million<\/strong>, driven largely by ICT, logistics, and financial services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-28390' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28390&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-28390' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28390' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28390' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-28390'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28390' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28390 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s export sector is showing strong momentum in 2025, with total earnings reaching\u00a0US$ 6.93 billion\u00a0in the first five months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28391,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions\/28391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}