Ambassador of Turkey to speak at National Chamber session

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 Wednesday, March 16, 2022, from 2.30 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 session. The overall purpose of this meeting is to discuss on 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 is the 10th largest export market for Sri Lanka with a share of 2.11 percent in 2020. Sri Lanka’s major export items to Turkey are tea, rubber articles, activated carbon, minerals, apparels (including gloves mittens and mitts),  yarns synthetic staple fibres and Sri Lanka’s imports from Turkey are auto spare parts, knitted fabrics, articles made of plastics, yeasts and baking powders, woven fabrics of cotton, electric equipments, electrical transformers, iron and steel products, food and dried vegetables. Turkey was the 28th import partner of Sri Lanka with a share of 0.59 percent in 2020.

Potential investment opportunities in Turkey 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) and agricultural machinery. 

For reservation for the session, kindly contact the chamber on 011-4 741 788/ 0762 555 707 (Nirmani/Nishanthi) or email [email protected]; [email protected].