Trade

For Sri Lanka to benefit from the planned free trade deal with China, it needs to reduce barriers for its small number of key exportable products, a new study has said. This is because a limited number of products contribute...

Sri Lanka – China FTA would result in higher gains for Sri Lankan exports compared to products imported from China which are already entering Sri Lanka duty free, a recent study showed. The study carried out by the Economics Research...

Sri Lanka has put the proposal made to establish an EXIM Bank on the back burner despite a pressing need of export finance for the acceleration of the country’s exports, a study conducted by an independent think tank revealed. The...

Exporters urge the Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samrawickrama to fast-track the implementation of the budget proposal to set up a development bank with an EXIM (export-import) window, which is crucial to address the current hardships faced by...

Among the conclusions of the New Thinkers’ Symposium were that economic reforms are urgent; that institutional misalignment, misidentified reforms, and data deficiencies are key structural and institutional bottlenecks hampering the successful implementation of Vision 2025; and that the most severe...

The conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement between Sri Lanka and Singapore is an indication of a positive signal that Sri Lanka was ready to open up to the outside world and engage with them, said Chief Negotiator of the...