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by Sanath Nanayakkare Sri Lankan importers and exporters are blamed for the mismatch in cash flows into the country even though the problem is due to successive governments having borrowed heavily from international lenders beyond their means without any sustainable strategy to repay those loans, says an expert. At a virtual press briefing held by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka yesterday, Deputy Governor Dhammika Nanayakkara responding to a question on the shortage of foreign currency liquidity in the market said: “On the one hand, importers are looking to frontload their imports assuming the rupee will depreciate and their import costs will go up. They borrow rupees and purchase dollars from the market and try to hoard goods. On the other hand, exporters are holding on to their dollar balances without converting them into rupees thinking they can sell them at a higher value and make a gain when the dollar appreciates. But the export proceed conversion rule which came into effect

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