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Colombo, July 5 -- The Sri Lankan economy could lose billons of rupees after the European Union (EU) officially announced on Thurday that it was withdrawing from August the preferential trade concessions given to the island nation as it failed to respond to a set of human rights-related conditions laid down by the Commission. Earlier, the EU had threatened to withdraw the Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP+) trade concessions saying Sri Lanka was not complying on several international covenants signed by the island. The EU expressed regret over Sri Lanka's decision to remain silent on the proposals by the EU for Sri Lanka to obtain a temporary extension of the GSP plus benefits by meeting some conditions.The Sunday Times newspaper quoted A Skukumaran, president of the Joint Apparel Exporters Association (JAAF) an industry body as saying that Sri Lanka faced the loss of about 12 per cent of the annual 3.3 billion US dollars in apparel exports.
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