🇱🇰 3 Months, No Policy — E-Commerce Still in Limbo

⭕ It has been over 3 months since the government supposedly began working on a new framework for taxing and releasing e-commerce goods.

⭕ As usual with the Department of Trade and Investment policies & Dept of Customs, nothing has materialized.

⭕ Meanwhile, 🇨🇳 AliExpress continues to impose arbitrary taxes on goods electronic parts, circuit components, and educational items that cannot be sourced elsewhere.

⭕ The worst part is that there is no cross-check mechanism between what customers pay as “taxes” and what intermediaries declare to customs — meaning much of the changed fees as "taxes" never reaches government coffers.

#SriLanka #Ecommerce