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Organic Fertilizer Import: China misleads Sri Lanka
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Organic Fertilizer Import: China misleads Sri Lanka

| @indiablooms | 14 Oct 2022, 06:22 pm

Colombo: The issue of importing organic fertilizer has dented the relationship between China and Sri Lanka and now the matter has taken a completely new turn.

"According to the latest developments, the Chinese company, Qingdao Seawin Biotec Group Company Limited has obtained a civil ruling unilaterally from Shandong Qingdao Intermediate People’s Court of China on Dec 7th, 2021 barring to charge its performance security," Colombo Gazette reported.

"The document was received by the State fertilizer companies in Sri Lanka by late June 2022. Despite an agreement reached between both parties, the Chinese company decided to secure an order and send it 6 months later to a crisis laden country," the newspaper reported.

The Attorney General has instructed the Secretary Ministry of Agriculture to take necessary action with regard to the complete deviation to the already reached agreement with the Qingdao Seawin Biotec Group Co Ltd.

According to Cabinet paper dated Aug 19, 2022 presented by Minister of Agriculture, Mahinda Amaraweera, the Chinese company had acted based on a presumption that they will receive a disadvantageous decision though the court enjoining order obtained by the two state fertilizer companies in respect of the Chinese fertilizer consignment shipped in contrary to the international law without a Plant Importation Permit, the newspaper reported.

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