Category: Trade

Oct 20, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka can increase exports and incomes by creating conditions to allow producers to move in to more complex products based on knowledge and research, a top economist said. By moving to complex products through innovation, a country could stop worrying about competition from Bangladesh or Vietnam, he said. Sri […]

Oct 15, 2012 (LBO) – Slovakia’s envoy to India Marian Tomasik will make a presentation on opportunities in his country to Sri Lankan business at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on October 17, the trade chamber said. Slovakia is a landlocked nation in Central Europe with a population of over five million and a gross […]

Oct 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and India is appointing a joint task force with representatives from the private and state sectors to boost trade and investment, information minister Keheliya Rambukwelle said. Sri Lanka has appointed Kulatunga Rajapaksa from Samson International, Susantha Ratnayake from John Keells Holdings and Ashrof Omar from Brandix as representative […]

Oct 10, 2012 (LBO) – An Asia-Pacific trade forum to be held in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo will have sessions focusing on small and medium enterprises and member of regional chambers in the island will take part, the island’s largest business chamber said. Local SME’s will have a special session to interact with speakers from […]

Sept 30, 2012 (LBO) – The European Union has protested to Sri Lanka over the re-export of Chinese-made bicycles which have been slapped with protective ‘anti-dumping’ taxes when exported direct, a media report said. Sri Lanka’s The Sunday Times newspaper said a protest was lodged with Sri Lanka’s embassy in Brussels by EU’s Director General […]

Sept 29, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lankan visitors traveling to India would face tighter baggage checks following the detection of several ‘mules’ who were smuggling gold into India, a media report said. At least 10 out of 13 gold smugglers caught at India’s Chennai airport over the past month are from Sri Lanka, the Times […]

Sept 20, 2012 (LBO) – India will increase a garment import quota by three million pieces a year to eight million without a sourcing requirement being imposed on Sri Lanka, the island’s industry ministry said citing a statement by a visiting Indian official. India and Sri Lanka has a free trade agreement through which nationalist […]

Sept 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s exports fell 17. 4 percent to 794.4 million US dollars in July 2012 from a year earlier, imports fell 24. 9 percent to 1,329.1 million US dollars and the trade gap fell 33.88 percent to 534.6 million US dollars, the Central Bank said. Sri Lanka’s exports were contracting […]

Sept 07, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and South Africa has potential to further increase trade links, deputy economic development ministry Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene told a business forum attended by a visiting business delegation. He said South Africa belonged to the so-called BRICS group of countries with Brazil, India and China which together now accounted […]

Sept 07, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s largest trading partner, the United States is keen to boost investment in the island and attract more Sri Lankan exports, the American chamber of commerce in Sri Lanka (AMCHAM) said. “The US has expressed its desire to increase more FDI (foreign direct investment) flows to Sri Lanka and […]

Sept 06, 2012 (LBO) – Two way trade between Sri Lanka and Vietnam reached 64 million US dollars in the first six months of the year, up 51 percent from a year earlier, Hanoi’s envoy to Colombo Ton Sinh Thanh said. “It is estimated that in the first nine months, the total trade between the […]

Sep 04, 2012 (LBO) – BPL Teas (Pvt) Ltd, a tea marketing unit of Sri Lanka’s Metropolitan group Bogawantalawa Estates Plc, has started making profits, chairman D J Ambani told shareholders. The tea growing parent firm said it lost money in tea with a 365 million rupee loss for the year partly due a steep […]