KARACHI: A two-member bench of the Singh High Court (SHC), headed by Justice Shafi Muhammad Siddiqui directed counsel for the petitioner to submit rejoinder for next date of hearing on a constitutional petition filed by M/s Mahnoor Food Industries.
On 3 December 2021, during the hearing, Zain A Jatoi, senior counsel for the petitioner, Khalid Rajpar counsel for customs department, Kafeel Ahmed Abbasi Deputy Attorney General, Hussain Bohra Assistant Attorney General appeared before the court.
After the hearing, the court observes in its order that “since Jatoi received para wise comments recently, he seeks time to go through the same, adjourned for the second week of Jan 2022”.
Earlier, Amjad Aman, Deputy Collector of Customs Exports Port Muhammad Bin Qasim had filed comments and request the court for dismissal of constitutional petition filed by M/s Mahnoor Food Industries on exportation of frozen foods and vegetables.
Customs officer had submitted comments and states that there is no imbalance and infect through their mis-inter partition of the word “production value” as “declared invoice value”, the petitioner is trying to continue their mis-appropriation and mis-used the ratio of 80% exports of the manufacture goods (production)to the foreign continues and 20% exports to the tariff area in Pakistan, therefore, court may dismiss the petition.
Counsel for the petitioner argued that petitioner is engaged in the trade and exportation of frozen foods and vegetables. Petitioner is aggrieved through impugned circular dated Nov 13, 2020 for collection of impositions apropos 80.20 ratio as to exports aboard and removal of goods to tariff area on the basis of “customs assessed values” instead of “production value”.
Citing Chairman Federal Board of Revenue, Export Processing Zones Authority, Collector of Customs of Exports Port Muhammad Bin Qasim as respondents, petitioner pleaded the court to declare that act of the respondents is illegal, mala fide and arbitrary and set aside impugned circular.
