Car importers rap Customs

SMALL IMPORTERS OF vehicles are incensed that the Customs Department now requires them to produce a document which they say is not available to them.
Crying “sabotage”, they have sent a letter to the Comptroller of Customs, complaining that the export declaration form, known as the C5010, was not customarily used in Barbados and was an internal document usually held by vehicle suppliers.
The consortium of vehicle importers’ representative, Judy Forde, told the DAILY NATION yesterday that Customs had requested submission of the C5010 form in a February 8 circular.
“We did the research and the C5010 stays in Japan,” she said. “We don’t know how to get that form, and if the small importers are being mandated to produce it, then it has to be for all importers.”