{"id":119890,"date":"2021-11-02T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119890"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:06:33","slug":"control-price-on-sugar-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/02\/control-price-on-sugar-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Control price on sugar removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Internal sources have confirmed that the controlled price imposed on sugar will be removed, while a decision was also taken to import rice stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President of the Sugar Importers&#8217; Association, Nihal Seneviratne stated that the decision was taken following a discussion with Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing his views to Hiru News, Seneviratne stated that one kilogram of sugar will be priced at between Rs 135 to Rs 140 in wholesale and Rs 150 in retail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further stated that 976 essential item containers remain at the Colombo Port, while US$ 16 million are required to release the relevant containers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seneviratne further noted that the discussion with the Finance Minister was positive and they hope that relevant foreign reserves will be given to release the sugar containers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Internal sources have confirmed that the controlled price imposed on sugar will be removed, while a decision was also taken to import rice stocks. Vice President of the Sugar Importers&#8217; Association, Nihal Seneviratne stated that the decision was taken following a discussion with Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa. Expressing his views to Hiru [&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-119890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119890","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=119890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}