Cambodia has exported garment and textile products in equivalent to 3.54 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of 2012, a 11 percent rise from 3.19 billion U.S. dollars at the same period last year, a report from the Commerce Ministry showed Friday.
The United States and European countries are the main buyers, and other customers are Canada, Japan, South Korea, China and some other Asian countries.
According to the report, during the same period, the country has imported garment and textile raw materials in equivalent to 2. 04 billion U.S. dollars, a 24 percent rise from 1.65 billion U.S. dollars at the same period last year.
Those materials had been mainly imported from Chinese mainland, China's Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and South Korea.
Garment industry is the country's largest income maker. The sector consists of more than 300 factories, employing some 335,400 workers -- 91 percent of them are female, according to the Commerce Ministry.
Last year, the sector exported products in equivalent to 4.24 billion U.S. dollars, up 25 percent year-on-year./.