Senior Vice President (SVP), Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI), Zia-ul-Haq Sarhadi has expressed concern over the levy of heavy tax on the export bound goods carrying trucks by the government of Afghanistan.
Talking to this scribe, he said Afghan authorities had imposed a tax of 5,000 Afghani, which is more than 9,000 Pakistani rupees, on each truck carrying Pakistani goods to their country as compared to 2,500 Afghanis imposed on the trucks owned by Afghans.
Furthermore, he said Afghan authorities were also collecting an amount of Rs 5000/- from each truck returning to Pakistan after downloading the goods. In case of decline, the Afghan authorities are asking the drivers for parking their vehicles in the nearby stream, where hundreds of such trucks are stranded. The measures of Afghan authorities, he said, inflicted million of dollars detection charges on Pakistani traders. He said such unfriendly and anti-bilateral trade barriers had resulted in the shifting of the 70 percent trade from Pakistan to Bandar Abbas and Chah Bahar ports of Iran. The matter, he said, had already been brought into the notice of Peshawar and Karachi based Consul Generals of Afghanistan and Trade Commissioners, but it still faced by the local traders.
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