Clearing agents operating in the nation’s maritime sector have threatened to embark on a fresh strike if the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) fails to review its price charts for imported vehicles.
According to the agents, the Customs’ current price charts for duty payments on imported vehicles are old and overvalued.
This is coming three weeks after the NCS suspended for one month its Vehicle Identification Number/e-valuation policy for imported vehicles, asking freight forwarders to clear their backlog of vehicles trapped in the ports.
In an exclusive interview with the Tin-Can Island chapter’s Chairman of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, Abayomi Duyile, the agents said although the NCS had reverted to the manual system for duty assessment, the duties were still about 40 per cent higher than “current market realities.”
