Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 12 -- Country's import orders fell by 12.52 per cent in January due to supply chain disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China, bankers said.

Opening of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as import orders, came down to $4.63 billion in January from $5.29 billion a month ago, according to the central bank's latest data.

Talking to the BBN, a senior official of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) said the country's overall imports are maintaining a falling trend in the recent months mainly due to global economic slowdown and coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan of China.

The central banker also predicted that the falling import trend might continue until June this year.

"We've to wait another couple of months to...