Major e-commerce retailers like AliExpress and Temu have reduced their shipment frequency to Sri Lanka from daily deliveries to just three times a week, following changes to Customs duty regulations, Sri Lanka Customs officials revealed at a recent parliamentary hearing.
Speaking before the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) on Tuesday (29), Customs representatives said that the backlog of e-commerce shipments previously held up at Customs was cleared by mid-July.
Officials explained that Chinese-based e-commerce platforms altered their logistics strategies, cutting down shipments from daily volumes of 4–5 tonnes to less frequent consignments to mitigate increased costs imposed by the new duty structure.
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