ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has publicized that the government was allowing the imports of all items that have reached the ports by June 1 although a ban on import of luxury items, ARY News reported.
Captivating to his official Twitter handle, the finance minister said that even after the government banned convinced luxury goods briefly, many shipments of these items reached the ports.
“To avoid losses to importers, the government is allowing the imports of all items that have reached our ports by June 1 with a small surcharge,” Miftah Ismail wrote.
Even after the government banned certain luxury goods temporarily, many shipments of these items inadvertently came to our ports. To avoid losses to importers, the government is allowing the imports of all items that have reached our ports by June 1 with a small surcharge. 1/2
— Miftah Ismail (@MiftahIsmail) July 23, 2022
In another tweet, Miftah said he, along with MQM-P senior leader and Maritime Minister Faisal Subzwari were trying that the importers only have to pay “little or preferably no demurrage pr container detention charges.”
In May, the government revealed an emergency economic plan and banned the imports of dozens of non-essential luxury items.
Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb conducted a press conference in Islamabad today to publicize the economic plan of the PML-N government to handle with the financial challenges.