November 1, 2001	Thursday	Shaba’an 14, 1422

ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The Central Board of Revenue has decided to establish three export facilitation centres (EFC) one each at Lahore, Gujranwala and Sambrial collectorates to facilitate the exporters.

The exporters will now get all facilities/assistance under one roof in a very congenial environment, which will start functioning by the end of December, an official source said here on Wednesday.

The EFC aimed at facilitating the exporters by speeding up the processing of export bills through one window operation.

The task has been assigned to Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) to establish the facilitation centres within a period of 60 days on the same pattern as was developed in Customs Export Collectorate, Karachi and Port Qasim, the source said.

Explaining the functioning of the centres, the source said that the entire document processing would be computerized to save the exporters/traders from unnecessary hassles of manual processing.