KATHMANDU, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Nepal continued to report year-on-year growth in foreign trade in the first nine months of the current 2025-26 fiscal year amid a rise in both exports and imports, a government report said on Monday.

Photo taken on July 23, 2019 shows the Swayambhunath Stupa, also known as the Monkey temple, on the hill of Halchowk in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. (Photo: Xinhua)

In its nine-month report, the Department of Customs said the total trade volume increased by 14.40 percent to 1.71 trillion Nepali rupees (11.50 billion U.S. dollars) from mid-July 2025 to mid-April 2026, compared to 1.49 trillion rupees during the same period in the previous fiscal year.

Exports increased to 222.93 billion rupees, registering an 18.46 percent growth compared to 188.19 billion rupees in the previous fiscal year. Imports grew by 13.82 percent to 1.49 trillion rupees in the first nine months, compared to 1.30 trillion rupees in the same period in fiscal year 2024-25, according to the report. (1 Nepali rupee = 0.0067 U.S. dollars)