ISLAMABAD: The Dry Port Islamabad surpassed its assigned target of Rs1685million under head of customs duty during 28 days of January, Financial Year (FY) 2016-17.
According to details, Assistant Collector Islamabad Customs Dry Port Amanat Khan said the performance has been tremendous during 28 days of January FY2016-17. He added that during said period, the dry port collected revenue of Rs1853million against the assigned target of Rs1685 for the whole month of January FY16-17.
The assistant collector said the dry port exceeded the target before the end of January with more revenue collection of Rs168million, adding Collector Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Islamabad Dr. Arslan held a meeting with him at collector office on Monday and asked him to formulate a strategy regarding the recovery of maximum collection to achieve the upcoming target of 3rd half of Financial Year 2016-17 and release the withheld government revenue through recovery.
Amanat Khan said the dry port administration has tightened the checking of consignments of old auto-parts as there were some complaints by customs officers that some of auto-part dealers showed wrong entries of spare-parts.
He said the Collector MCC asked the dry port staff during the meeting to clear importers’ consignments speedily and promote the legitimate trade. He further said the dry port administration believes in providing best facilitation to business community so as to develop a friendly at Islamabad Dry Port.
He reminded that during January FY16-17, curbing of foreign origin fabric smuggling, heavy machinery and registration of imported vehicle business had been in full swing.
