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Importers of goods advised to enquire
about duties before shipment
Accra, Sept. 14, Ghanadot/GNA – An official of the Customs
Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) has advised importers
of goods to enquire about duties and taxes before shipping
them.
They should also educate themselves on the appropriate steps
to take to acquire permits on their goods.
Mr Joseph Eric Owusu, Principal Collector of CEPS at the
Kotoka International Airport, said this in Accra on Thursday
when they destroyed 12 tons of imported goods which included
expired drugs, brochures, packaging material and labels.
The items, which had been in storage for well over a year
had been abandoned by their owners and had expired.
Mr Owusu said usually, importers of such items were ignorant
of the duties they had to pay, adding that others were also
not aware of the kind of permits they needed to clear their
goods.
He said some importers, on realising that what was required
to clear their goods was beyond their means, simply
abandoned them.
Mr Owusu said such exercises were often carried out to
destroy goods that had expired, adding that it was important
for importers of goods to educate themselves adequately on
rules and regulations that governed the importation of such
items.
He said by doing that they would save themselves the trauma
of abandoning their goods and seeing them destroyed.
GNA
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