Sri Lanka - Taxes on international trade

Taxes on international trade (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on international trade (current LCU) in Sri Lanka was 333,382,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 371,336,000,000 in 2017 and a minimum value of 19,341,000,000 in 1990.

Definition: Taxes on international trade include import duties, export duties, profits of export or import monopolies, exchange profits, and exchange taxes.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 19,341,000,000
1991 19,754,000,000
1992 21,640,000,000
1993 20,672,000,000
1994 22,598,000,000
1995 24,373,000,000
1996 25,464,000,000
1997 26,743,000,000
1998 28,154,000,000
1999 27,720,000,000
2000 23,970,000,000
2001 26,156,000,000
2002 31,804,000,000
2003 39,667,000,000
2004 48,655,000,000
2005 56,359,000,000
2006 73,807,000,000
2007 84,406,000,000
2008 98,234,000,000
2009 137,260,000,000
2010 130,749,000,000
2011 158,080,000,000
2012 216,672,000,000
2013 191,815,000,000
2014 198,483,000,000
2015 244,231,000,000
2016 364,268,000,000
2017 371,336,000,000
2018 341,710,000,000
2019 333,382,000,000

Taxes on international trade (% of revenue)

Taxes on international trade (% of revenue) in Sri Lanka was 17.56 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 26.02 in 1990, while its lowest value was 10.91 in 2001.

Definition: Taxes on international trade include import duties, export duties, profits of export or import monopolies, exchange profits, and exchange taxes.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1990 26.02
1991 23.43
1992 23.01
1993 19.42
1994 19.10
1995 16.79
1996 16.54
1997 15.54
1998 15.46
1999 13.68
2000 11.08
2001 10.91
2002 11.91
2003 13.96
2004 15.20
2005 13.67
2006 14.56
2007 14.19
2008 14.31
2009 18.92
2010 15.67
2011 16.64
2012 20.31
2013 16.63
2014 16.72
2015 16.72
2016 21.51
2017 20.19
2018 17.68
2019 17.56

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance