The Finance Ministry has suspended the importing of several items, including chocolate and yogurt.

Finance Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has enforced the suspension of over 300 items through a special circular.

Accordingly, importing liquid coconut milk, perfumes, makeup and shampoo have also been suspended.

Also suspended from import are trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling bags, insulated food or beverages bags,toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags,shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette cases, tobacco-pouches, toolbags, sports bags, bottle cases, jewellery boxes, powder boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics,of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper, pantyhose, shawls, scarves, mufflers, mantillas, veils and the like and shoes. (Colombo Gazette)

Let them eat cake ! That brass statue that was placed on Ranil’s head when blessings were invoked must have done some serious damage.