Birgunj (Parsa), June 9: The Birgunj Customs Office has collected the largest volume of revenue amounting Rs 65.5 billion from the import of petro products during last 10 months in the current fiscal year.
As shared, the office has spent Rs 155 billion and 940 million for the import of five kinds of petro products in the reporting period.
On the total revenue received from the import, the petro products have the 46.26 percent contributions.
Chief Customs Administrator at Birgunj Office, Deepak Lamichhane said the main source of customs revenue here is the import of petroleum products and vehicles.
Likewise, the import of transport vehicles and their parts has drawn the second largest volume of revenue amounting to Rs 15.24 billion. Witht his, the import of vehicles and parts has a total share of 10.93 percent on the revenue received from the customs duty.
The office has gathered revenue of Rs 5.25 billion from the iron and iron-made products. Likewise, it has collected revenue of Rs 4.55 billion from the import of machinery and parts.
Lamichhane further informed that revenue amounting to Rs 3.37 billion was collected from the import of electric machinery, accessories and their parts.
The office has collected Rs 2.87 billion revenue from the import of all types of clothes in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year.
Other revenue sources include Rs 2.23 billion from the import of tobacco and tobacco products and Rs 2.22 billion from cosmetics items.
