PESHAWAR: The Assistant Collector Headquarters Saiqa Abbas has streesed upon the need to Grow duties by faciliating Trade activities with neibor countries. The over all performance of MCC Peshawar was excellent and it always exceeded from the targeted figures due to guest importers and exporters from Afghanistan. She said this at her office in MCC Peshawar on Thursday in a short interview with Customs Today. She elaborated the function of collecting various duties on substantial goods. The Model Customs Collectorate Peshawar (MCC) has role to establish custom stations at dangrious localities to collect customs duties. As the region adjecent to Peshawar was famous for production and supply of various kinds of Drugs to the international world as will for the import and export of non custom paid goods and vechiles from Afghanistan. She further said that after the foundation of MCC Peshawar the situation has been revered as now there has no possibility whats so ever for the trafic of smuggling through the entry and exit points into Pakistan through the jurisdictions of MCC Peshawar from Afghansitan. She added that the situation at Pakistan- Afghanistan border is at worse due to which their was continious decline in the graph of collection and the statments of Feberury and March 2017,predicted the decline rate. when i was at Torkham station the performace was absolutly different as the rout has capicity to generate 2/3 revenue of the
collections made by the MCC Peshawar.The reason Torkham station generated more revenue was the borders never remain close for more than three days,she added. When she was asked about the tools to meet finance requirements at time of zero trade activity she praised the duty hours of Anti Smuggling Officers for providing revenue at time when their had been less cross border trade. Due to evil situations on borders the Cutoms have to servive on impounding of vehicles and sezier of goods to meet the effects caused by loss to achieve targets,she responded. The main sources to generate revenue for the Federal Board of revenue were always the entry and exit points at borders with Afghanistan at various location from Khyber Agency to Khurram Agency. She said that Dry Ports also hav