Trade

Malaysia is one of Sri Lanka's principal trading partners and ranks among the country's leading sources of foreign investment. The total export value from Sri Lanka to Malaysia was USD 75.3 Mn in 2025, and total imports from Malaysia to Sri Lanka for the same period were USD 969 Mn. Malaysia is the 06th import origin for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s exports to Malaysia have rapidly decreased by 14.04% in 2025 compared to the year 2024. Imports from Malaysia have increased by 41.4% in 2025 when compared to the year 2024.

Sri Lanka’s main exports to Malaysia

Natural rubber & rubber based products (Tyres, gloves etc.), bran, sharps and other residues of milling, precious stones and semi-precious stones (e.g. Rubies, Sapphires and Emeralds), tea, bath preparations, shaving or after shave preparations, deodorants, fish, ladies underwear, wheat/ meslin flour, articles of jewellery, food preparations, unmanufactured tobacco, machinery parts, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, Rubber gloves, coconut fiber, vegetables (gherkins), brooms and brushes, aluminum plates, sheets and strips etc, natural sands (mineral), synthetic filament yarn.

Sri Lanka’s Main imports from Malaysia

Petroleum, palm oil, cement, Aluminum, Newsprint, wood products, electrical items, cement linkers, polymers of ethylene, vegetable fats, chemicals, urea, plastics articles, iron & steel articles, paper etc.