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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2018-05-30
Amendment to the Customs Ordinance to facilitate the 'Single Window' implementation to improve Ease of Doing Business Index
- It is essential to improve the efficiency and the simplicity of the trading process for the improvement of the Business Climate and the Investment Climate of the Economy of Sri Lanka and as such, it has been proposed to implement the pre‑arrival clearance and paperless customs process prior to the importing process. This will reduce the costs and time of the Traders during the clearance process and Ease of Doing Business Index will improve.

Therefore, a proposal has been made to amend the Customs Ordinance by incorporating provisions to that effect. Accordingly, the proposal made by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media, to instruct the Legal Draftsman to draft the proposed amendments to the Customs Ordinance to be included in the (Amendment) Bill, was approved by the Cabinet.