Good worth over Rs 66bn exported through Birgunj customs checkpoint in seven months

BIRGUNJ, PARSA: Goods worth Rs 66.48 billion have been exported through the Birgunj customs checkpoint in the first seven months of current fiscal year 2025/26.  

This is an increase of Rs 9.94 billion compared with the same period last fiscal year.

Uday Singh Bista, information officer at Birgunj Customs Office, said goods worth Rs 56.54 billion were exported to foreign countries in the first seven months of the last fiscal year and that exports through this customs checkpoint are improving in the current fiscal year.

In the first seven months of the current fiscal year, processed soya bean oil worth Rs 35.58 billion, fruit juice worth Rs 4.97 billion and processed sunflower oil worth Rs 4.58 billion have been exported through Birgunj.

Similarly, refined palm oil worth Rs 3.77 billion, various types of cloth worth Rs 2.33 billion and synthetic yarn worth Rs 1.58 billion have been exported.

Information officer Bista said that goods worth Rs 595.46 billion have been imported through Birgunj Customs in the first five months of the current fiscal year.

According to the Birgunj Customs Office, goods worth Rs 58.91 billion, that is 11% more, were imported in the same period of the current fiscal year compared with the first seven months of the previous fiscal year. In the first seven months of the previous fiscal year, goods worth Rs 5.3655 billion had been imported through this checkpoint.

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