Customs values of gypsum, cement boards
KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Valuation Karachi has revised the customs values of gypsum board, gypsum tile and fiber cement board vide Valuation Ruling No.951/2016. Customs values of gypsum board, gypsum…
Point to ponder: Recovery of NATO’s arms
A huge cache of arms and ammunition containing significant amount of goods stolen from NATO containers was recovered in Karachi posing a question mark on the claims of US Embassy…
DG Customs Valuation re-initiates development of database values
KARACHI: Directorate General of Customs Valuation is re-initiating the development of database values of importable items, a process which was temporarily stopped after some reservations expressed by Chief Collector Appraisement…
PMSA recovers hashish worth Rs600 million
KARACHI: Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) and Customs Preventive MCC Gwadar have apprehended over one ton of hashish worth Rs 600 million in a joint action along Pakistan-Iran border, said…
Regional Director CBSA to visit Customs House on October 19, 2016
KARACHI: A delegation of Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) led by its Regional director to Asia Claude St-Denis will visit Customs House Karachi on October 19, 2016. Collector Appraisement East…
Aluminum Composite Panels to be assessed under PCT 7610.9000
KARACHI: The Customs Classification Committee has determined that Aluminum Composite Panels are correctly classifiable under PCT 7610.9000. MCC Islamabad forwarded the matter of classification of Aluminum Composite Panels (ACP) which…
Fruit juice importer penalized
KARACHI: Collector Customs Adjudication chaudry Mohammad Jawaid has penalized fruit juice importer and clearing agent for claiming inadmissible benefits under concessionary SRO to evade government’s legitimate revenue. According to the…
FBR notifies large-scale transfers and postings in Pakistan Customs Service
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified large-scale reshuffling in Pakistan Customs Service (PCS). The BS-18 officers transferred include Mohammd Saeed Watto posted as Deputy Director, Directorate of…
FBR notifies transfers of BS-16 Customs officers
KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified transfers and postings of BS-16 officers of Pakistan Customs with immediate effect. Mohammad Arif and Mohammad Khalid have been moved from MCC…
Customs Quetta launches second phase of operation against showrooms housing smuggled vehicles
KARACHI: On the directives of Collector of Customs Quetta, Saeed Jadoon, Customs Quetta has initiated the second phase of operation against showrooms of NCP vehicles. Raids were conducted by Customs…
Chief Collector Appraisement South temporarily shuffles appraising officers
KARACHI: Chief Collector Appraisement South Abdul Rasheed Shaikh has ordered three appraising officers to join back their previous place of postings. These officials were temporarily on the disposal of Directorate…
Diaper importer booked for mis-declaration
KARACHI: MCC Appraisement West has lodged an FIR against M/s Faisal Trading, Karachi for attempting to evade duty and taxes through mis-declaration. According to details of the case M/s Faisal…
FBR taking policy measures to deal with challenges post-IMF program
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is taking several policy measures from the platform of both Customs and Inland Revenue to deal with challenges in the wake of changing…
Tons of coal: SHC orders provisional release
KARACHI: A division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Syed Saeed-uddin Nasir on Friday allowed provisional release of coal brought in by a…
SHC allows time to Custom for procuring documents from FBR
KARACHI: Allowing a request made by Principal Appraiser, Law, Pakistan Customs, Ilyas Ahsan for time to procure some material documents from Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), a division bench of…
Mobile accessories: SHC fixed Oct 14 for hearing dozens of identical cases
KARACHI: An appellate bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprisinf Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Syed Saeed-uddin Nasir on Friday put of hearing of half a dozen cases including…
Ceramics, tiles case: SHC issue notices to DG Valuation, others
KARACHI: A division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Syed Saeed-uddin Nasir on Friday issued notice to the custom officials including Director General…
DG I&I Imtiaz Ahmed given farewell
KARACHI: The outgoing Director General Customs Intelligence & Investigation – FBR, Imtiaz Ahmed has said that Customs is a versatile organization, which deals with clearance of cargo, vigilance, secretariat procedures,…
Large-scale reshuffling of BS-16 Customs officials planned
KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has advised all Customs formations to submit disposition list of officials working in the field formations. In a letter signed by Qasim Khan Khattak,…
PCA detects revenue evasion of Rs434.35 million
KARACHI: Directorate of Post Clearance Audit Karachi has detected duty/tax evasion and short payment of Rs434.35 million in the month of September 2016 by various companies and traders. The Directorate…