SIALKOT: Collector of Customs Sialkot Qurban Ali Khan while talking to Customs Today said that exports from Sialkot region has increased about 17.1 percent during FY 2013-14 due to provision of advance facilities and rapid clearance of consignments by Model Customs Collectorate.
He said that volume of exports from Sialkot Dry Port Trust (SDPT) and Sialkot International Airport has increased to Rs.11.17 billion during above mentioned period.
Moreover, he told that exports of leather from MCC Sialkot increased by 16.3 percent, sports goods by 7.1 percent, surgical instruments by 17.9 percent, textile by 28.8 percent, cutlery by 7.8 percent and other goods by 5.5 percent.
“New steps taken by MCC Sialkot were encouraging exporters of city to increase their volume of exports as clearance issue were being solve via one window operation to facilitate the exporters, who were contributing to national economy” he added.
He also confirmed that the MCC Sialkot has started to pay a large number of pending refund claims to the Sialkot exporters on priority and has already distributed Rs 330 million among them.“We are working on to make MCC Sialkot a Center of Excellence with cooperation of the Sialkot based industrialists, exporters and importers” he claimed.
Collector Customs lauded the role of exporters in making the country proud and named them as “Roaming Ambassadors of Pakistan”, who travel all around the world to bring business with their personal efforts. He said that the export earnings of Sialkot stand at US $ 1.6 billion annually, which is six percent of the total exports of Pakistan.
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