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Sri Lanka is the 81st largest export economy in the world. In 2016, Sri Lanka exported
$11.5B and imported $19.7B, resulting in a negative trade balance of $8.22B. In 2016
the GDP of Sri Lanka was $81.3B and its GDP per capita was $12.3k. Sri lanka was the
first South Asian Country to decisively move away from the protectionist import-
substitution trade policies for many years and has damaged the economic growth.
Sri Lanka has some trading partners that are important for their economy, like India is
Sri Lanka’s largest trading partner. There are some of the top exports of Sri Lanka like
Tea with an expenditure of ($1.19B). The main economic sectors of the country are
tourism, tea export, apparel, textile, rice production and other agricultural products. In
addition to these economic sectors, overseas employment contributes highly in foreign
exchange.
There are some export destinations for Sri Lanka some of them include India will
expenditure of ($800M), Germany with ($636M) and Italy with ($398M). The top import
are India ($4.36B), China ($4B), Singapore ($1.06B), the United Arab Emirates ($1.01B)
and Japan ($936M).

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