Proposing solutions for the emergent challenges and effective exports coordination, Minister Bathiudeen said: “Given the magnitude of the above challenges, firstly it is clear that Sri Lanka needs to firmly focus on a collaborative approach to overcome these emergent challenges so that our export growth momentum continues. In that, inter-departmental coordination of all concerned government departments and Ministries such as the customs, Environment Ministry, etc is essential.
“To this end, we need to promote a Cross Functional Team styled mechanism that involves the vital stakeholders in our exports. Secondly, promptly activating a well-integrated and a well-functioning, streamlined single electronic documentation window system that also takes in the stakeholder feedback, should be initiated in parallel to this inter departmental cross functional mechanism.
“Of course, it is imperative that the coordination mechanism and the electronic single window system be linked and tightly integrated. Such a two pronged course of action, I believe can help us enormously to address not only the above mentioned challenges but even the emergent issues in competitive advantage, cross border logistics and electronic documentation.”
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Ministry of Industry & Commerce