LAHORE: The Customs Central Region has posted a growth of 43 percent in collection of customs duty during the first seven months of the financial year 2017-18 by collecting over Rs 33,877 million.
As per details, the Customs Appraisement Lahore collected Rs 19,220 million customs duty while the Customs Preventive Lahore collected Rs 6,647 million during the period under review.
On the other hand, the Collectorate of Multan collected Rs 5,759 million customs duty during first seven months of financial year 2017-18.
In the same way, the Collectorate of Customs Faisalabad collected Rs 2,250 million customs duty during the period under review.
According to the documents overall the Central Region collected customs duty from all the four Collectrates worth Rs 33,877 million posting a growth of 43 percent during the first seven months of current .
Sources said that the Collectorate of the Central Region have started putting all out efforts to achieve the financial year targets.