Viscose Yarn exports which showed significant improvement in June saw a reversal this month. In July 2009, 2.83 million kgs of viscose yarn was exported valued at US$9.00 million. Compared to a year ago, the volumes were down 0.8% while earnings declined 4%. Unit price realization was also down 4% during July 2009 compared to its year ago level. Thus, cumulative export during the first four months of 2009-10 was 11.4 million kgs worth US$33.9 million.


In July 2009, 21 varieties of counts were exported as against 24 last year. Of these, only 9 counts formed the Elite group with total exports worth over US$6.84 million, thus accounting for 76% of total exports. They were 30/1, 40/1, 24/2, 24/1, 40/2, 20/1, 30/2, 36/1 and 20/2. The single largest was 30/1 earning US$4.77 million during the month with volumes at 1.58 million kgs.