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Customs, SON Partner To Decongest Seaports
Maritime activities ended on Saturday with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) saying it was ready to collect duties on all the dutiable containers of electronics congested at the seaports.
Mr Wale Adeniyi, the Service Public Relations Officer, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos that the service could not stop the clearance of such goods.
NAN reports that some of the containers had been at the ports since October, 2010.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and Consumers Protection Council (CPC) had on Thursday granted electronics importers up to August 15 to clear all the backlog of containers.
This was the outcome of the agencies’ meeting with the importers at the Alaba International Market in Lagos.