Customs Authority: Efforts to return all customs points on the roads leading to the ports of Kurdistan to service

Baghdad-INA
 
The General Authority of Customs confirmed today, Saturday, the work to return all customs points on the roads leading to the ports of Kurdistan, while revealing an increase in revenues of last year 2021 by 17% compared to 2020.
 
The director of legal and customs affairs at the Authority, Adel Suleiman, said in a statement to Al-Iraqiya news channel, which was followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "The authority achieved an increase in revenues compared to last year by 15 to 17%", noting that "the percentage that was achieved was mostly in the last quarter of last year 2021, as the effort that achieved more than half of what was achieved in the first months of last year was doubled."
 
Suleiman continued, "Several meetings were held with the Minister of Finance and the Director of Customs, where a new plan was prepared to be implemented in this year 2022 by reconsidering all customs duties, in addition to automating customs work, as an agreement was concluded with the World Trade Organization to automate the customs work, which will achieve more than 50% of the doubling the collected revenues".