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          Workforce
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          Double Taxation
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• Setting up in Sri Lanka
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Areas Totally Reserved for Sri Lanka

Foreign investment is not permitted in the following areas:

1. Money Lending
2. Pawn-broking
3. Retail trade investment with a capital of less than One Million US Dollars
4. Coastal Fishing