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Sri Lanka will not qualify for some of the GSP-Plus preferences if and when they get such preferences when UK is out of EU, according to Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies Dr. Saman Kelegama. Sri Lankan’s 35 percent of exports to the EU goes to the UK market and 40 percent of textile and apparel exports to the EU goes to the UK market.
