Imports, Exports
& Who Benefits
Sri Lanka's trade flows cross-referenced against every duty change, gazette and import ban, so a tariff cut and the import surge that follows it sit on the same page.
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Where this data comes from
Trade flows: UN Comtrade
Sri Lanka Customs publishes no open API and no bulk downloads, so flow data comes from UN Comtrade, which Sri Lanka reports into. Figures are in US dollars, cover HS chapters plus a watchlist of politically sensitive commodities, and typically lag 6 to 12 months. Comtrade revises its figures; revisions overwrite in place rather than accumulating.
Tariff changes: customs.gov.lk
Duty changes, Special Commodity Levy revisions, CESS and PAL rates, Revenue Protection Orders and import-control regulations are scraped from the Sri Lanka Customs tariff archive and Extraordinary Gazettes. Change types are classified by rule, not by a language model; anything unclear is labelled “Unclassified” rather than guessed at.
Flagged surges are generated by comparing average monthly imports in the three months after a relaxation against the twelve months before it, excluding the month the change took effect. At least three prior months and two subsequent months are required. This surfaces leads for journalists to verify. It does not establish wrongdoing.