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# Exports aren't keeping up with the competition
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/exports-arent-keeping-up-with-the-competitino/
- Published: 2025-09-26T08:04:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-26T08:13:39.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: maintag-Chart, chart, Week-03-2025

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Source: Prema-chandra Athukorala, [Australian National University](https://crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/2025-02/acde%5Ftd%5Fathukorala%5F2021%5F14.pdf?ref=examiner.media)

Over the last twenty years, Sri Lanka's share of exports from developing countries to the rest of the world fell by half. How much of the decline was the result our own policies, such as high tarriff rates, and how much was external changes, like China joining the WTO?