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By Chiazo Ogbolu
Lagos, May 6, 2021 The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Apapa Area Command on Thursday said it generated N65, 463, 398, 355.85 in April.
The Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Ibrahim Yusuf, at a media briefing, noted that the record showed an increase of N25, 585, 561, 139.92 compared to the collection of the same month in the year 2020.
“This indicates a 64 percentage increase in collection, and an unprecedented record that has never been achieved in the history of Apapa Area Command,” he said.
Yusuf said as regards anti-smuggling, the command intercepted tramadol and unprocessed wood and scrap copper wire with a Duty Paid Value of N1, 760, 506 363 in the month under review.
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Advancing with the Brazilian proposal would be wasting an opportunity, said Kestelboim
Argentina s Ambassador to Mercosur Mariano Kestelboim Sunday said he favoured “a new common external tariff that promotes productive development.”
Kestelboim, an economist by profession and also Ambassador to the Latin American Integration Association (Aladi), an entity made up of the countries of South America (except Guyana and Suriname) plus Mexico, Cuba and Panama, explained in an interview with the newsagency
Télam that the regional bloc ”needs a new Common External Tariff (CET) that adjusts to the current productive characteristics and in turn, promotes the development of regional capacities.
Mercosur: What next? | Art by Joaquín Temes
The Mercosur bloc could be on the verge of historic changes, after member nations agreed this week to debate a potential liberalisation of its trade rules at a key meeting next month Talks over a reduction in the common external tariff could also be on the table.
The news was announced by the Foreign Ministries of Argentina and Uruguay jointly last Monday following a virtual extraordinary meeting to broach these two issues presented by the government in Montevideo. The Uruguayan proposal will be studied by the Common Market Group co-ordinators with the aim of producing the inputs for decision-making at the next meeting of the Common Market Council, reported the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry via Twitter.