ISLAMABAD: In continuation of the ongoing drive for digitisation, the FBR’s Customs wing has developed an automated facility in the WeBOC System in a bid to enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dealing with exports to acquire imported input goods from a Common Export House for subsequent exports under the Export Facilitation Scheme, 2021.
The facility is a warehouse authorised by the Collector of Customs for importing warehouse and supply of input goods without the payment of customs duty, sales tax, federal excise duty (FED) and withholding tax, by the small and medium export enterprises, direct or indirect exporters and commercial exporters.
Public warehouses already operating under Customs warehousing rules can also apply to operate as a Common Export House, simultaneously.
The newly introduced automated facility in WeBOC includes features of online application filing for the authorisation to operate as the new facility, authorisation of common export warehouse by the regulatory collectorate and filing of import Goods Declarations (GDs) of input goods by the authorised user of the facility as an importer.
The automated system will also facilitate supply of input goods to the SMEs and other authorised buyers within a period of two years from the date of import.
