KARACHI: The Collectorate of Customs Adjudication has returned all 50 contravention reports (CRs) made by the Model Customs Collectorate of Appraisement-West on misdeclaration of imported fabric consignments and asked to review them as they possibly missing legal formalities.
Reliable sources in FBR, on condition of anonymity, informed Customs Today that the Collectorate of Customs Adjudication has returned all the CRs to MCC-Appraisement-West due to procedural errors.
It further informed that the contravention reports made by MCC-Appraisement-West have lack of legal formalities, legal sections and sub-sections under Customs Act, 1969.
“Clauses which were not appropriate in misdeclaration of the imported consignments have been inducted in the contravention reports, adding that the legal format was also missing in the contravention reports”, it added.
The sources further claimed that the MCC Appraisement-West following the directives of Chief Collector Appraisement-South has made the contravention reports in a hurry and sent to the Collectorate of Customs Adjudication. However; the Collectorate sent those back to MCC Appraisement-West for correction.
It is pertinent to mention here that the MCC-Appraisement-West after confirming misdeclaration in import of fabric on the name of cotton blended have made more than 50 CRs by the end of June, 2014 against the importers who were involved in the said matter. However; the Collectorate of Customs Adjudication has sent back all the CRs for correction to the MCC Appraisement-West.
