FBR imposes 10% processing duty on Afghan transit trade goods

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has slapped a 10 percent processing duty on Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) goods. This step has been taken to curtail smuggling of goods back to Pakistan.

The ATT has been misused massively over many years and the measure aims at curtailed selling of goods within the country, which are being imported in guise of transit trade. According to the Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) issued by the FBR, the government imposed processing fee of 10% ad valorem on certain Afghan transit commercial goods imported into Afghanistan via Pakistan.