{"id":30887,"date":"2024-03-27T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=30887"},"modified":"2024-03-27T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:58:05","slug":"fbr-imposes-20-customs-duty-on-multivitamin-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/fbr-imposes-20-customs-duty-on-multivitamin-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"FBR imposes 20% customs duty on multivitamin imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Broad of Revenue (FBR) has implemented a 20% customs duty on the import of multivitamins, natural health products, and food supplements, as announced on Wednesday. This decision comes following a ruling issued by the Customs Classification Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the importer&#8217;s request for a reduced 11% duty rate based on the classification of the products as Natural Health Products by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP), the committee ruled in favor of imposing a higher 20% duty on these imports.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute arose when M\/s Base6 (Pvt) Ltd. imported consignments of Multivitamins\/Natural Health products\/food supplements, declaring them under HS code 3004.5090 instead of 2106.9090. The Customs Appraisement group argued that these multivitamins should be classified as food supplements under PCT heading 2106.9090, attracting a 20% duty rate.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/government-of-pakistan-urged-to-reevaluate-subsidies-in-light-of-health-concerns-during-ramazan\/\">Government of Pakistan Urged to Reevaluate Subsidies in Light of Health Concerns During Ramazan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After reviewing the arguments and relevant documents, the Classification Committee determined that the imported goods are not intended for therapeutic or prophylactic use but rather for general well-being and health enhancement. Therefore, they should be classified under PCT heading 2106 and subject to a 20% customs duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Broad of Revenue (FBR) has implemented a 20% customs duty on the import of multivitamins, natural health products, and food supplements, as announced on Wednesday. This decision comes following a ruling issued by the Customs Classification Committee. Despite the importer&#8217;s request for a reduced 11% duty rate based on the classification of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6833,2804,7689,9135,131,13948],"class_list":["post-30887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-drap","tag-drug-regulatory-authority-of-pakistan","tag-imports","tag-multivitamin","tag-fbr","tag-natural-health-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}