KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (I&I) has impounded huge quantity of auto parts imported by M/s Best Deal Enterprises.
Sources said that information of mis-declaration was passed through Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Saquif Saeed to Additional Director Ghulam Nabi Kamboh that consignments of assorted auto parts i.e. clutch set, automatic transmission fluid, ball bearing. wiper blade, water pump, fuel pump, height control pump, electric water heater, anti-skid control, automotive cylinder head gasket, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter, transmission fluid, brake pad, injector cleaner, rubber belt, cylinder etc., imported by M/s. Best Deal Enterprises, were detained for detailed scrutiny.
In order to check the veracity of the information, Additional Director Ghulam Nabi Kamboh put the said consignments to scrutiny.
During detailed examination of the goods revealed that undeclared items including a gasoline generator, spark plugs, plastic film etc were also found in container.
Moreover, retail price and sales tax in terms of Sales Tax Act was also not found mentioned on the goods.
Online scrutiny of the WeBOC Declaration of the importer read against detail examination revealed that many items were clubbed and declared as lots/packages to avoid/conceal applicable codes and actual quantity.
Furthermore, the importer also declared lower values instead of actual Customs values applicable as per relevant Valuation Rulings of auto parts in vogue, thereby causing evasion of duty and taxes.
Importer has not declared retail price and sales tax as provided by the Sales Tax Act, 1990. The differential amount of duty and taxes in the instant 03 consignments has been worked out to the tune of Rs27.765 million.
Further, scrutiny has revealed that the importer filed GD without attaching thereby detailed documents i.e., invoice, packing list, etc.
However, the above mentioned documents were attached along with the GDs filed later presumably because the importer got a hint that I&I Karachi Directorate is monitoring and has taken cognizance of the matter after a complaint regarding evasion of duty and taxes in the subject 3 consignments.
Initial inquiry into the past clearances of the importer has revealed that the importer has filed a total of 53 Transshipment Permit (TP) GDs at Karachi and has not submitted the above mentioned requisite import documents in any of the said TP GDs filed at Karachi prima facie giving credence to the suspicion that the importer is a habitual evader of duty and taxes through mis-declaration by non-submission of requisite documents etc at Karachi.
