Spread over 28 acres, located about 20 kilometers east of Peshawar on the main GT Road
ISLAMABAD:
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has made it mandatory for industrial units in erstwhile tribal areas to clear their imports on concessional terms through Azakhel dry port to ensure safe and tracked movement of goods.
Azakhel Dry Port is situated in Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Spread over 28 acres and located about 20 kilometers east of Peshawar on the GT main road, the dry port was inaugurated during the PTI government in January 2020.
The former tribal areas include the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata), which were merged into the KP in 2018.
The FBR has introduced a new mechanism for safe and traceable movement of imports on favorable terms for these units, restoring the regulatory framework. For this purpose, the FBR has issued Customs General Order (CGO) No. 08.
Under Entry 89 of the Eighth Schedule of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, a new General Customs Order 08/2025 has been issued to ensure the safe transportation of industrial plants, machinery, equipment and inputs benefiting from preferential sales tax rates for industrial units located in former Fata and Pata.
This order continues the mechanism previously notified through General Customs Order 01/2021. Initially, through SROs 1212 and 1213 in 2018, the federal government extended sales tax and income tax concessions to industrial units in former Fata and Pata.
These concessions were later incorporated into the Sixth Schedule of the Sales Tax Act (Entry 151) and Section 159 of the Income Tax Ordinance through the Finance Act, 2019.
