Sri Lanka, July 6 -- E-commerce websites such as AliExpress, Amazon or Temu have not stopped shipping products to Sri Lankan customers as claimed by certain factions, according to Deputy Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Chathuranga Abeysingha.

Deputy Minister Abeysingha however acknowledged that an issue persists since Sri Lanka Customs changed its practice of imposing taxes on imported goods in April.

He said Sri Lanka has no policy on cross border e-commerce transactions and therefore the leniency of the authorities on such transactions were misused since 2017.

According to Deputy Minister Chaturanga Abeysingha, provisions are in place only for Business-to-Business transactions and not for Business-to-Consumer sa...