Mechi Customs Office Collects Over Rs 12.93 Billion in Revenue as Exports Rise and Imports Decrease

The Mechi Customs Office in Kakadbhitta has reported a revenue collection exceeding Rs 12.93 billion over the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, achieving 77.57 percent of its target with one month remaining.

Despite a 3.61 percent decrease in imports compared to the same period last fiscal year, exports have increased by 10.76 percent, according to Ganapati Kandel, the Public Information Officer at the Mechi Customs Office. Kandel detailed that goods valued at Rs 40.79 billion were imported through the Kakadbhitta customs point, while exports totaled Rs 22.21 billion. Significant increases were noted in the export of chhurpi (65.29 percent), plywood (56.33 percent), ginger (35.45 percent), broom grass (amriso) (31.34 percent), and venous seats (12.57 percent). However, cardamom exports declined by 2.61 percent, and tea exports fell by 13.42 percent.

On the import side, there were notable decreases in diesel, aviation fuel, vegetables, jute, gypsum, clothing, and LPG. Key imports through the Kakadbhitta border included petrol, diesel, jute and jute products, cooking gas, various vegetables, gypsum, resins, clothes, and fruits (including juice). Meanwhile, exports comprised cardamom, iron sheets, plywood, tea, chhurpi, amriso, ginger, sweets, other metal residues, venous sheets, clinker, and other materials.