between the Customs, Ministry of Commerce and LC or contract issuing banks for end-to-end monitoring of imported arms and ammunition.”
At the Customs stage, importers get cleared the goods either through their representatives such as Customs clearing agents or through filing goods declaration direct to WeBOC by creating accounts.
Sources in the Customs said any irregularity at the import stage could identify an importer, if goods declaration was filed through a clearing agent, a licensed person.
However in self goods declaration filed by importer it was difficult to apprehend in post-clearance due to various reasons, including fake identity.
Last month, the Karachi Customs Agents Association (KCAA) wrote a letter to the Customs authorities to check the goods declaration filed on self-basis and urged the authorities to issue rules for such transactions.
To give legal shelter for clearing on self-basis Section 208 was inducted to the Customs Act, 1969, subject to registration with the licensing authority of Pakistan Customs.
Khurram Ijaz, general secretary of KCCA, in the letter said when the law amended only 0.5 percent goods were declared on self-basis. However, he said, at present, the ratio of filing of self goods declaration is approximately 30 percent.
No rules have so far been notified for declaration on self-basis, which is discrimination to the Customs clearing agents. The KCAA demanded the self clearance should be discontinued till the notification of rules.
Sources in the Customs and a few clearing agents are unanimous that most of the illegal trade was cleared through self declaration with the connivance of the Customs officials and clearing agents.
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