Circular No. 09 of 2021, Islamabad, the March 1, 2021

SROS: Circular No. 09 of 2021, Islamabad, the March 1, 2021 Mechanism to be adopted for the release of Consignment of FATA/PATA Residents Stuck-up at the Karachi Ports Government of Pakistan Revenue Division Federal Board of Revenue Inland Revenue ***** Islamabad, the March 1, 2021 Circular No. 09 of 2021 - Operations (Inland Revenue/Customs) Subject: Mechanism to be adopted for the release of Consignment of FATA/PATA Residents Stuck-up at the Karachi Ports A meeting was held under the Chairmanship of the Chairman, FBR with Inland Revenue- Operations and Customs Operations Wings to sort out the issues of imported goods of FATA/PATA residents stuck-up at Karachi Ports, Consumption/Installation Certificates, Postdated Cheques and Exemption Certificates under Section 148 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2021. 2. After thorough deliberations between the Chairman, Member (IR-Operations) and Member (Customs-Operations) following mechanism was devised for the release of consignments of FATA/PATA residents stuck-up at the Karachi Ports:- (i) The stuck-up containers are to be released by Customs authorities against Postdated Cheques (PDCs) and sent to their destination (FATA/PATA) under standard tracker mechanism. (ii) The Collector Customs (Enforcement Compliance), Peshawar, will issue detention orders of the raw materials effective from day the consignment reaches the manufacturing premise of importers. (iii) The importer/manufacturer will be responsible to take the import documents alongwith detention order to the CIR Corporate Zone, RTO, Peshawar and make arrangements to have the manufacturing premises/raw material/machinery/goods imported verified. (iv) The CIR…