Sri Lanka: Import levy increased on certain vegetable oils; import duty increased on coconut kernels (August 2018)

Announcement

24 Aug 2018

Sri Lanka has increased the import levy on certain vegetable oils and withdrawn the levy on coconut kernel imports, effectively increasing the import duty on such kernels.

Source

Number of interventions

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

25 Aug 2018

Revocation date:

24 Feb 2019

Updated: 24 Aug 2018

Import tariff

On 24 August 2018, Sri Lanka through Extraordinary Gazette No. 2085/36 increased the special commodity levy on various vegetable oils by Rs. 20 as follows: