KARACHI: The Pakistan Customs has decided to weed out user IDs of the Afghan traders so that updated information of the traders of the neighboring countries could be maintained, it is learnt.
The sources told Customs Today that the Afghans traders were issued user IDs by the Ministry of Commerce, Afghanistan and the Directorate General of Transit Trade for transparent shipments of transit cargo from Pakistan’s ports.
“The data of all the WeBOC user IDs of Afghan traders issued by Directorate of Transit Trade and Ministry of Commerce, Government of Afghanistan to be examined with a view to weed out IDs issued by Directorate General of Transit Trade, Karachi in coordination with stakeholders”, sources added.
According to sources, Chief Collector Enforcement South Zahid Khokhar is onboard on all the issues and committed to plug the revenue leakages whatever had happened in the past.
Moreover, the Customs authorities deputed at the Exit Directorates of Transit Trade – Quetta and Peshawar to take up the issue of reconciliation/non-receipt of large number of T-I certificates with Afghan Customs
