Sri Lanka’s apparel industries have complained that the removal of the SVAT system which allowed local producers to sell ...

Imported inputs are free of VAT in Sri Lanka like in other competing countries in East Asia. Apparel industry has warned that ...

Imported inputs are free of VAT in Sri Lanka like in other competing countries in East Asia. Apparel industry has warned that they will have to halt backward integration to compete with the rest of ...

Sri Lanka workers leaving for jobs in foreign countries like the Middle East have eased from February 2025, central bank data ...

Sri Lanka has unveiled a national strategy which will help the country tap climate financing from official donors and also ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Central Bank expects net interest margin of commercial banks to fall from the current 4 percent with ...

Macroeconomic headwinds will present a growing challenge to emerging market issuers across sectors in 2026 as the US tariff ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Ports & Civil Aviation Minister Anura Karunathilaka, will attend the Indian ...

Margin loans by Sri Lanaka's banks have risen 25 percent to 60 billion rupees, from January to August 2025, Director of the ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s rupee was quoted at 303.50/70 to the US dollar Friday, slightly recovering from 303.65/75 the ...

Sri Lankans are expected to spend around 1.5 billion US dollars in importing vehicles in 2025, which is higher than initially expected, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said.

Sri Lanka’s services exports rose 3.18 percent from a year ago to 306.09 million US dollars in September 2025, helped by ICT ...