PARSA : Goods worth Rs 694.5 billion were imported in the first nine months of the current fiscal year.

The imports of the first nine months in the current fiscal year increased by 13 per cent compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, according to the Birgunj Customs Office. The total imports during the same period in the last fiscal year stood at Rs 613.61 billion.

During the nine months, the country imported goods and commodities of Rs 80.44 billion more compared to the same period of last year from Birgunj customs point.

Information Officer of the Birgunj Customs Office, Udaya Singh Bista, said that there has been growth in the imports of goods through this point.

Petroleum products worth Rs 148.16 billion, iron and iron products of Rs 62.26 billion, soybean oil of Rs 50.4 billion and other goods were imported during the period.

The other major imports include machinery parts and electrical goods, it is said.

Bista shared that machinery goods of Rs 49.13 billion and electric machinery goods and appliances worth Rs 34.19 billion were imported till the Nepali month of Chaitra, the first nine months of the current fiscal year 2082/83 BS.

According to the Office, revenue collection of the Birgunj Customs Office stood at Rs 177.66 billion during the period of nine months.