PHMA, FBR hold awareness session: Textile exporters briefed, trained on EFS-2021

KARACHI: Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PHMA) in collaboration with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Customs Wing has organized an awareness and training session on the Export Facilitation Scheme (EFS) 2021.

The event was held online at PHMA House Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Sialkot simultaneously.

Farrukh Sajjad, Collector, Model Collectorate of Customs (Exports) and Nawabzadi Aliya Khanji, Additional Collector, Customs-Exports, Syed Riffat Ali, Principal Appraiser Customs-Export, Nayab Azhar, Assistant Collector Customs and Muhammad Saud, Senior Business Analyst, EFS Module Incharge, FBR briefed and trained the textile exporters on the salient features and registration process of EFS 2021.

The EFS-2021 is currently running parallel and will replace the export-oriented unit, manufacturing bond and DTRE schemes from Aug 14, 2023 as a single unified scheme.

Muhammad Jawed Bilwani Chief Coordinator and Former Central Chairman PHMA welcomed the Customs Officials at PHMA for this awareness, training seminar to enlighten the exporters about the main features of EFS and to answer questions asked by exporters for their enlistment.

He appreciated that PHMA and FBR jointly believe in facilitation the exporters in order to contribute in the economic prosperity of Pakistan. He said both are working closer like hands in gloves in order to facilitate the taxpayers and exporters.

With the best efforts and productive proposals of PHMA, the FBR’s FASTER and WEBOC Systems have been improved and working efficiently and exporters are getting their refunds online smoothly and all credit goes to the Chairman and Members of the Board and their team who are working to eliminate human intervention and brought automation and reforms in the FBR System to facilitate the exporters, he said.

He also appreciated the government’s initiative of “Pakistan Single Window (PSW)” portal is to provide single electronic platform for facilitating compliance with regulatory regime for cross border trade in Pakistan. He assured that PHMA shall also extend complete support to Customs with regards to implementation of EFS 2021.

He said that PHMA has also introduced EFS Help Desk at its RDA Cell to support member exporters. He recalled that EFS-2021 was launched last year whereby many exporters have registered to EFS who were previously registered in other three schemes.

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