National Chamber of Commerce to host Turkish Ambassador on Friday

Ambassador of Turkey to Sri Lanka R. Demet Sekercioglu will be the Special Guest Speaker at a Session on ‘Bilateral Trade between Sri Lanka and Turkey’ on Friday, 23 April from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the National Chamber Auditorium, No. 450, D.R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo 10. 

The participants will get an opportunity to have a close dialogue with the Ambassador of Turkey. Further, Turkish commercial counsellor Aysun Timur will be joining the meeting via zoom. The overall purpose of this meeting is to discuss the current trade environment, investment opportunities/services, policies and other important information with the view to promote and strengthen bilateral trade and investment between Sri Lanka and Turkey. 

Turkey was the 10th export market for Sri Lanka with a share of 2.11% in 2020. The main items exported from Sri Lanka to Turkey in 2020 were, tea, vegetable textile fibres, apparel, used pneumatic tyres, man-made staple fibres, activated carbon, new pneumatic tyre, apparel accessories, lead oxides, misc. articles of base metal, misc. edible preparations, desiccated coconut.

For further expansion of Sri Lanka’s exports to Turkey, identified potential items are apparel, articles of vulcanised rubber, gloves, mittens and mitts, impregnated, coated or covered with plastics or rubber, vessels for the transport of goods and vessels for the transport of both persons and goods, diamonds, worked, but not mounted or set (excl. industrial diamonds), preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale). 

Turkey was the 28th import partner of Sri Lanka with a share of 0.59% in 2020. The main items imported from Turkey to Sri Lanka in 2020 were, onions, nuclear reactors, knitted or crocheted fabrics, electrical transformers, man-made staple fibres, iron and steel, other imports, cotton, plastics, refrigerators, wheat, miscellaneous edible preparations. 

For reservation for the session, kindly contact Chamber on 011-4 741 788, Achini or email [email protected].