Goods worth Rs 20.14 billion were imported from the Mechi Customs Office in Jhapa in the first five months of the current fiscal year.

Information Officer and Customs Officer of the Mechi Customs Office, Ishwar Kumar Humagain, said that the total import of this year's review period was 7.57 percent more compared to the same period of the last fiscal year. In the first five months of the last fiscal year, the Mechi Customs Office imported goods worth Rs 18.72 billion.

However, the total export of goods from the Mechi Customs Office has decreased in this period. The total exports stood at Rs 10.71 billion in the review period, which was Rs 11.47 billion in the same period last year.

Cardamom, tea, plywood, veneer sheet, broom grass, ginger and iron sheet are the major exportable goods from the Mechi Customs Office, while petroleum goods, readymade garments, vegetables, auto parts, cement clinker, cosmetics goods, coffee, plastic goods, shoes and some others are the major imported goods.

Likewise, the Office collected slightly more than Rs 6.82 billion in revenue from the exports and imports of goods during the first five months starting from the month of Shrawan, officials shared.