Import restrictions on 300 more items to be lifted

Import restrictions on another 300 items will be relaxed soon, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya announced today.

The State Minister stated that the import restrictions will be relaxed by the first week of September.

The Government last lifted import restrictions on 328 items on July 20, 2023, following the relaxing of import restrictions on over 240 items earlier on June 10, 2023.

The government imposed a ban on several items as a part of its prolonged stringent import restrictions from March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The ban on imports continued due to the economic crisis until as recently as November last year after which the government took measures to relax import restrictions on several goods in batches.