{"id":103529,"date":"2020-06-15T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103529"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:51:27","slug":"importing-hand-loom-and-batik-textiles-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/15\/importing-hand-loom-and-batik-textiles-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing hand-loom and batik textiles stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202006\/1592235852_4904407_hirunews_Gotabaya-rajapaksha-123.jpg\" alt=\"Importing+hand-loom+and+batik+textiles+stopped\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has decided to halt importing handloom and batik textiles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The President has taken this decision with the intention of strengthening the existing local producers and &nbsp;attracting more producers to the industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThis decision was taken at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon regarding the problems faced by those who are engaged in the textile and garment industry.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has decided to halt importing handloom and batik textiles. The President has taken this decision with the intention of strengthening the existing local producers and &nbsp;attracting more producers to the industry. This decision was taken at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon regarding the problems faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}