Additional Director General, Customs Media Spokesman Sivali Arukgoda says that the period given for the import of rice has ended and there is a news that the government has some plan to extend the period.
The period given by the government for the import of rice has now ended. Accordingly, the total amount of rice received by the country is sixty seven thousand metric tons.Of this, twenty-eight thousand five hundred metric tons is raw rice and the remaining thirty-eight thousand five hundred metric tons of rice is Nadu rice. Currently, all this amount of rice is being cleared and released into the country.
It is said that the government has an intention to extend the rice import period even though it has ended. But the Sri Lankan Customs will be able to carry out the clearance work only after the issuance of that gazette.
For this rice, the Sri Lanka customs charged a tax of 65 rupees per kilogram. Accordingly, the Sri Lankan Customs collected a tax amount of approximately 4.3 billion rupees.