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What documents are needed to ship goods from India to Sri Lanka?
Short answer
To ship goods from India to Sri Lanka, an exporter needs an Importer-Exporter Code, a shipping bill filed on ICEGATE, a commercial invoice, a packing list and a transport document.
India has South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) in force with Sri Lanka, so a preferential certificate of origin may apply. Send the commodity and route to our desk and it will list what your shipment needs.
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The numbers behind this answer
- Capital
- Colombo
- Currency
- LKR
- Time zone in 2026
- UTC+05:30
- Land border with India
- No
- Trade agreement status
- South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) and India-Sri Lanka FTA, from 2006-01-01
- How SSL helps
- There is no land route. SSL moves your cargo by road to and from the Indian port. Ask us about the sea leg.
Sources
- DGFT: Importer-Exporter Code
- ICEGATE: shipping bill and bill of entry
- DGFT certificate of origin platform
- India free trade agreements, source cited in our dataset
Period: 2024. Data as of 29 Sep 2026.
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