Export earnings in March 2011 amounted to $4.350 billion, a 4.0 percent increment from $4.182 billion recorded in March of 2010. Similarly, month-on-month, it increased by 12.6 percent from $3.865 billion posted in February 2011. Meanwhile, aggregate merchandise exports for the first three months of 2011 showed an increase of 7.8 percent to $12.215 billion from $11.331 billion posted during the same three-month period in 2010.

Export earnings in May 2011 amounted to $4.104 billion, a 3.2 percent decline from $4.241 billion recorded during the same period of the previous year. Month-on-month, it fell by 4.6 percent from $4.302 billion in April 2011.

Total receipts from merchandise exports during January to May grew by 7.5 percent to $20.625 billion from $19.185 billion during the same period a year earlier.

Export earnings in July 2011 went down by 1.7 percent from $4.505 billion to $4.430 billion recorded during the same period of the previous year. Month-on-month, it increased by 7.3 percent from $4.128 billion in June 2011.

Total receipts from merchandise exports during January to July grew by 3.3 percent to $29.187 billion from $28.246 billion during the same period a year earlier.