Import restrictions on several items to be relaxed

 

The government has decided to remove import restrictions imposed on selected items, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. 

As the forex crisis exacerbated, the government published a special gazette notification on August 23, 2022, imposing restrictions on 1,465 items in total and subsequently, 708 items were removed from the said list of items after taking into consideration the appeals.