PESHAWAR: The mutual trade with Afghanistan through Ghulam Khan border once again halted due to imposition of WeBOC service.
Assistant Collector Kohat Customs Station Tahir Iqbal informed Customs Today that for mutual trade the importers must have to fill EIF form without which no passage will be given to import and export vehicles loaded with goods.
Customs department has termed it necessary to clear goods through WeBOC service and no import & export will be done without computerized feeding of data.
Assistant Collector Tahir said that main export to Afghanistan through Pakistan via Ghulam Khan border are cement, cooking oil, iron rods along with other goods.
According to importers, after customs authority made it necessary to clear goods through WeBOC service, trade between two neighboring countries has been reduced as only one-sided trade is still underway.
The importers further said that trade through Ghulam Khan border started after four years of closure but all of a sudden the customs authorities applied clearance of goods through WeBOC service which complicated the process of import & export.
The importers threatened to launch protest against Customs authorities if the manual system of clearance was not imposed.
The importers demanded of the FBR high-ups to consider their demands as it will be very difficult for them to sustain trade with Afghanistan.
