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Table  43B  (External trade, Balance)
Balance of Payments (Resouce Gap)a) (2000 - 2008)
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Category	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008b)	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008b)
	Million of US Dollars					Million of  Rupees
1.Foreign Receipt	9,005	9,890	10,980	12,366	13,026	912,817	994,750	1,142,516	1,368,959	1,411,334
Exports	5,757	6,347	6,883	7,640	8,137	583,967	638,276	716,579	845,683	881,321
Services	1,527	1,540	1,625	1,775	2,003	154,746	154,877	168,802	196,249	217,055
.Income	157	35	311	449	-32	15,813	3,629	32,457	50,213	-3,133
Current Private Transfers	1,564	1,968	2,161	2,502	2,918	158,291	197,968	224,678	276,814	316,091
2.Foreign Payments	11,740	12,292	14,102	16,266	20,674	1,199,131	1,233,271	1,474,619	1,800,775	2,244,382
Import	8,000	8,863	10,253	11,296	14,008	811,138	891,359	1,066,615	1,250,386	1,516,681
Services	1,106	1,202	1,368	1,472	1,601	112,001	120,833	142,142	162,892	173,375
.Income	360	335	700	807	940	36,501	33,678	72,881	89,267	101,899
Current Private Transfers	214	233	257	288	353	21,619	23,426	26,817	31,808	38,380
Private Capital Transfers	7	7	8	10	12	669	755	879	1,066	1,319
Capital Repayments	1,593	1,175	1,480	1,735	3,420	161,062	117,997	154,234	192,396	371,309
Investment Outflows	106	254	333	377	550	10,774	25,554	34,840	41,608	59,308
Commercial Banks	354	223	-297	281	-210	45,367	19,669	-23,789	31,352	-17,889
Progress Payments	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3.Exterrnal Resouce Gapc)　(1-2)	-2,735	-2,402	-3,122	-3,900	-7,648	-286,314	-238,521	-332,103	-431,816	-833,048
4.Financing of Resources Gap(a+ +d)	2,473	2,255	3,125	3,899	7,645	284,136	223,369	332,105	431,816	833,045
a.Central Government	855	1,083	1,314	2,115	1,949	86,980	108,940	137,506	234,978	210,828
Grants	85	335	382	356	381	8,681	33,631	39,816	39,272	41,222
Project Aid	714	631	703	660	604	72,596	63,423	73,268	73,121	65,500
Other Long-Term	56	117	229	630	455	5,703	11,886	24,422	71,025	49,158
Short-Term	-	-	-	469	509	-	-	-	51,560	54,948
b.Private Sector	1,746	1,840	1,959	2,457	3,595	183,751	182,764	212,797	270,170	396,796
Direct Investment	233	272	480	603	752	23,421	27,356	50,034	66,828	81,503
Portifolio Investment	111	276	355	423	548	11,289	27,806	37,168	46,798	59,101
Commercial Borrowings and Suppliers' Credits	169	197	139	199	264	17,503	19,739	14,469	22,033	28,693
Short-Term	1,031	772	692	868	2,216	104,034	77,571	71,839	95,765	239,357
Commercial Banks	202	323	293	364	-185	27,504	30,292	39,287	38,746	-11,858
c.Other	61	-596	-42	-508	1,324	17,603	-57,841	-16,368	-57,073	137,284
Private Capital Transfers	16	15	18	19	23	1,599	1,532	1,878	2,140	2,480
External Official Assets	-133	-539	-101	-672	947	-4,388	-49,598	-26,246	-75,872	91,672
Asian Cleaning Union	180	-85	35	134	360	20,455	-9,873	5,345	14,912	42,965
Other	-2	13	6	11	-6	-63	98	2,655	1,747	167
d.Balancing Items	-189	-72	-106	-165	777	-4,198	-10,494	-1,830	-16,259	88,137
Errors and Omissions	-189	-72	-106	-165	777	-4,198	-10,494	-1,830	-16,259	88,137
Pressure on Balanced) of Payment (%)
With Aid Imports （３／１）	30.4	24.3	28.4	31.5	58.7	31.4	24.0	29.1	31.5	59.0
Adjusted for Aid Imports　（3／２）	23.3	19.5	22.1	24.0	37.0	23.9	19.3	22.5	24.0	37.1
© ２０１１， KRI (Kusaka Research Institute)				Revised:  2011(y)/04(m)/25(d)
Source:				Chief Editor:
Central Bank of Sri Lanka.				Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Key:				The Former Head, Department of Management Studies
(a) The Presentation confirm as far as possible to the Balance of				University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Payment Manual, 5th Edition (1993) of the International Monetary
Fund. In addition , beginining 1994, Off-shore Banking Units (OBUs)
have been treated as a part of the domestic banking sysytem.
(b) Provisional
(c) External Resource Gap = All Foreign Earning - All Foreign Payment
(d) External Resources Gap / Foreign Receipts x 100