Bangladesh, Oct. 6 -- The revenue board is going to procure some 14 new scanners at an estimated cost of Tk 5.0 billion to check duty evasion through under-invoicing and misdeclaration.
Only four scanners are now in operation in Chittagong customs house while a minimum of 12 devices is required to scan export-import products in Chittagong port.
The Finance Bill-2019 has incorporated a provision of non-intrusive inspection to bring all consignments under mandatory electronic scanning.
As stipulated, all consignments, unless exempted by an official order, must go through e-scanning before releasing from customs ports.
On many occasions, finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal stressed the need for scanning all export and import products at por...