Importing goods worth more than 100 rupees from the Indian border , has to pay customs duty

 

The government of Nepal is going to impose customs duties on the goods imported into Nepal after shopping from the border Indian market. Along with the revised new customs passenger relations facility rules, now when Nepalis shop in the Indian market, customs will be levied on goods worth more than 100 rupees.

Earlier, customs was not mandatory for shopping in Indian markets in border areas. The customs department claims that this rule will provide relief to the Nepali market in the border area. 

According to the Customs Department, such a rule has come under the passenger customs facilities published by the Ministry of Finance in a revised form on 15 May.

Punya Vikram Khadka, the spokesman of the department, said that after the complaints of Nepali industrialists/businessmen and the market, despite the fact that there were rules of a similar nature in the past, strict arrangements were made in a refined manner.

"As soon as the new rule came out in the gazette, we informed the subordinate offices about it, now the implementation has started," he said, "If the shopping done in the market towards India on the Nepal-India border exceeds 100 rupees, it can be brought to Nepal only after declaring it to customs."

This provision has been made in point 5 of the amendment regarding the cargo check pass that passengers can bring and take with them. In which air passengers are allowed to bring passenger convenience items, there is no facility for common people on the ground route. However, military officers working in the Indian Army, students going to study in India and China are given the facility to bring computers and laptops.

 

According to the department, according to the rules, it is mentioned that even when bringing goods worth up to 100 rupees for personal purposes, the customs must be checked. However, the subordinate offices within the department have issued a notification saying that they will allow bringing in items worth up to 100 rupees, but customs will be levied on items over that amount.

Following the department's instructions, the Bhairahawa Customs Office has issued a notice clarifying the goods that passengers coming to Nepal from India can bring. According to Maniram Poudel, the chief customs administrator of the office, now, when shopping in the Indian market, goods worth more than 100 rupees must be declared at the mandatory customs duty.

Paudel said that such regulation was started to reduce the impact on Nepal due to Nepalese tendency to shop towards India at the border of the two countries. "People from all over the hills come to the Indian market to shop for weddings, weddings, Dashain, and Tihar," said Paudel.

 He explained that this arrangement was implemented after discussions between the local level, district administration and businessmen.

 

The Customs Department has also said that this rule has been strictly implemented to discourage transactions in Nepalese currency by going to tax-free markets. Even now, when the Nepalese rupee is strong, the business in the Indian market has affected the country on the contrary, the department claims.

Biratnagar, the big customs point of the east, has also started to tighten the business done by passengers by land. Gyanendra Raj Dhakal, head of Biratnagar Customs Office Rani, said that the customs have been tightened. Dhakal said that money is paid to those who bring goods worth more than 100 rupees and every day they are reminding them not to engage in such transactions.