Daily lifeThe NBR has asked the Tariff Commission to report whether duty and tax cuts on 18 products and product groups in the budget reached consumers; TCB data show dates up 17 percent and imported garlic up 21 percent in a year.
The government has granted a conditional duty and tax waiver on green chilli and tomato imports for 60 days to steady supply and prices.
Chattogram Custom House is destroying 3,268 tonnes of unauctionable, substandard and expired goods from 126 containers long stuck at Chattogram port.
The government has cut the supplementary duty on imported fresh fruit such as apples, grapes, pears, oranges and malta, which may bring prices down.
The government has halved the tax collected at source on imports of fresh fruit such as apples, grapes, pears, oranges and malta, from 10 percent to 5 percent.
Fruit traders in Chattogram formed a human chain demanding the withdrawal of increased VAT and extra duty on fresh fruit imports.
The commerce ministry has asked the National Board of Revenue to scrap the duty on onions and cut duties on crude edible oils and sugar.
