Tin Can Customs, FEPA To Partner On Wood Export

The Tin Can Island Com
mand of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it will partner the Federal Environment Protection Agency (FEPA) to assist in explaining the difference between treated and untreated wood products.
The area controller of the command, Yusu Bashar disclosed this in an interactive session with stakeholders including exporters in Lagos, recently.
Bashar, who expressed the need for the stakeholders to ensure that only exportable wood products are brought into the port, warned that anything short of that which the law permits would be confiscated and the culprits made to face the wrath of the law.
“It is an incentive to encourage export because it is assumed that money will come to government based on exportable products from Nigeria most especially now that Nigeria is having issue with crude oil.
“Price per barrel is going down, it is our major foreign exchange earner so Nigerians must be encouraged to export as much lawful products as possible.
“We took wood products as the first item amongst exportable products because it attracts a lot of attention”, the controller said.
Basher further noted that need for the campaign became imperative due to the seeming confusion coming from the export of wood products adding that every container is with wood export and is considered contraband by the uninformed people of the society.