KARACHI: Directorate General, Customs Valuation, Director General Surriya Ahmed Butt, has decided to revise the Valuation Rulings No 737/2015 on October 16, it is learnt here.
According to the details, Surriya Butt has said that the department is reviewing suggestions from importers to set new prices. She said that some valuations, which were issued in 2015, were being reviewed from the beginning.
Moreover, the valuations will be set in view of rising prices in international markets. Sources told reporters that a petition was submitted by the importers to Customs Valuation in which change in prices of toilet soaps was requested. Sources said that Valuation Ruling No. 737/2015 was issued on 27th May 2015.
A meeting was held with the stakeholders on 26 September, 2017. Importers were told to furnish the import invoices of the last three months showing factual values as well as websites, names and e-mail addresses of known foreign manufacturers of the item in question through which the actual current value could be ascertained.
