ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has allowed repayment of customs duty at Rs5.42 per kilogram on import of raw material for manufacturing of plastic goods meant for export.
The FBR on Tuesday issued SRO 461(I)/2020 to amend SRO 212(I)/2009 to allow repayment of export duty on import of raw material.
Through the instant SRO the FBR allowed duty drawback on import of 10 different raw material for the manufacturing of plastic goods at the rate of Rs5.42 per kilogram.
The FBR allowed duty drawback on export of manufactured products from May 20, 2020. The FBR said that repayment of custom duty shall be paid on manufacturing of 100 percent goods including packaging materials used in the goods meant for export such as bottles, jars, vials, containers, droppers and the like.
The conditions for the facility prescribed in the actual SRO is that:
— the manufactured goods are exported out of Pakistan and an application for repayment of customs–duties is presented to the proper officer of Customs within two hundred and ten days of such exportation or within one hundred and eighty days from the date of realization of foreign exchange as shown on Bank Credit Advice issued in accordance with the current directive of the State Bank of
Pakistan; and
— the exporter makes a declaration on the goods declaration filed under section 131 of the Customs Act, 1969 (IV of 1969) and on other export documents for his claim for repayment of the customs–duties paid on the imported raw materials used in the production or manufacture of the goods being exported.
