Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Bali province earned US$152.1 million from industrial product exports in the nine months through September, up 11.5 percent from US$136.3 million in the same period last year.
The small scale industry contributed 39.29 percent of the province's overall exports valued at US$387.2 million in the January-September 2011 period, spokesman of the Bali provincial industry and trade office Putu Bagiada said here on Friday.
The industrial product exports consisted of canned fish, fabricated homes, footwear, bags, plastic products and garments, he said.
The garment exports alone contributed around US$100 million in the first nine months of 2011, he said.
The foreign exchange earnings from garment exports rose significantly compared to the same period last year when the figure was recorded at US$89.6 million. Bali's garment exports mostly went to the United States, Japan and Europe.
Garments were the biggest foreign earner among small scale industrial products, followed by handicraft made of plastics.(**)
