20000104

Import, export

Customs software

working smoothly

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Customs software in both import as well as export areas is working smoothly in the new year 2000 at the Customs House, Karachi, and all upcountry collectorates such as Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.

The Pakistan Revenue Automation Ltd (Pral) announced that the task force constituted on Y2K compliance in Customs House had made a contingency plan for testing the system. All computer programmes comprising about one million instruction codes were tested and found to be Year-2000 (Y2K) compliant.

Pral said that as a result of these arrangements all clearing agents, importers and exporters were able to process their import and export related documents smoothly with the start of the new year without facing any problem.