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Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa issued a gazette notification restricting the import of 367 non-essential items with no valid import license.The gazette came into effect from Thursday midnight, Xinhua news agency quoted the ...

Sri Lanka restricts import of 367 non-essential items-

COLOMBO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa on Wednesday issued a gazette notification restricting the import of 367 non-essential

Minister of Industries, Wimal Weerawansha recently appointed the chairman and members of the Advisory Council of the Automobile Assembling and Automobile Components Manufacturing Industries in Sri Lanka. The appointments were made as part of the programme to focus greater attention on the twenty ind

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed to completely ban the importation of Palm Oil with immediate effect. The Controller General of Department of Imports and Exports Control has been advised to issue the relevant gazette order to give effect to this instruction, by the Secretary to the President P.B Jayasundera today itself. Additionally, the Director-General of Customs has been informed of this decision and advised to refrain from clearing palm oil cargos at the Department of Customs....