BANIYANI, Dec 1: Goods worth over Rs 16 billion have been imported through the eastern border point of Kakarbhitta in the first four months of the current fiscal year. During the same period, exports amounted to Rs 8 billion.
According to Ishwar Kumar Humagain, Information Officer at the Mechi Customs Office, goods worth Rs 16.02 billion were imported from Shrawan to the end of Kartik (mid-July to mid-November) in FY 2025/26.
Compared to the same period last fiscal year, imports have increased by 12.12 percent, while exports have declined by 4.12 percent.
During the review period, the office recorded exports worth Rs 8.96 billion. In the corresponding period last fiscal year, exports had totalled Rs 8.30 billion.
In the four-month period, the office collected Rs 5.46 billion in revenue from imports and exports combined. Of this, Rs 5.33 billion came from imports and Rs 123.4 million from exports.
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Revenue collection increased by 15.66 percent, equivalent to Rs 739.4 million, compared to the same period last fiscal year.
Among the top 10 export items from Kakarbhitta, exports of cardamom, veneer sheets, dog and cat food, dried ginger, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli, and lentils (masoor) increased. Meanwhile, exports of tea, plywood, broom grass (amriso), and iron sheets declined.
Cardamom exports more than doubled, reaching Rs 3.97 billion—an increase of 109.2 percent or Rs 2.07 billion compared to the same period last year. Tea exports, however, fell sharply by nearly one-third. In the first four months of this fiscal year, tea worth Rs 1.37 billion was exported—a 37 percent year-on-year decline.
Plywood exports declined by 52.7 percent. Until the end of Kartik last fiscal year, plywood worth Rs 1.25 billion had been exported, while this year’s figure stood at only Rs 595 million—a reduction of Rs 662 million.
Meanwhile, veneer sheet exports rose by 135.8 percent. Last fiscal year, exports amounted to Rs 164.5 million, which increased to Rs 386.2 million this year—an increment of Rs 221.7 million.
Exports of dog and cat food rose by 33 percent, amounting to Rs 379.9 million in the first four months of this fiscal year, according to the Mechi Customs Office.
Exports of broom grass (amriso) fell by 23.9 percent to Rs 262.5 million. Ginger exports increased by 3.2 percent to Rs 242.4 million. Exports of cauliflower, cabbage, and broccoli increased by 36.1 percent, reaching Rs 113.1 million.
Masoor lentil exports surged significantly—by 481 percent. Lentils worth Rs 91.2 million were exported through this checkpoint, compared to Rs 15.7 million in the same period last year.
Exports of iron sheets amounted to Rs 37.8 million, a 97.3 percent decline from last fiscal year, the office reported.
