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Nepal Imports Laptops worth Rs 8 Billion in a Year

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Nepal Imports Laptops worth Rs 8 Billion in a Year
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August 25: In the last fiscal year laptops worth Rs 7.72 billion have been imported in Nepal. Consumption of laptops has increased in Nepal due to the new environment created by the lockdown.

The increasing trend of online classrooms and zoom conferences, remittance inflow, access to electricity in rural areas, increasing use of laptops in teaching methods, increasing practice of online version in government services and information technology friendly society have led to increase in imports of laptops in Nepal.

About 93 percent of Nepal's laptops are imported from China, while other major countries are Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Indonesia and Japan.

In the Fiscal Year 2077/78, the government collected revenue of Rs. 992.67 million from laptops import.

 Import Data of Laptop in Fiscal Year 2077/78:

Countries

Quantity in Numbers

Imported Amount in Thousand

Revenue amount in Thousand

Import Percentage

China

130,965

4,241,644

927,725

93.17

Malaysia

4,244

249,647

32,434

3.21

Singapore

1,058

69,403

8,723

0.89

USA

520

43,528

4,596

0.56

Indonesia

143

14,024

1,823

0.18

Japan

254

13,732

1,786

0.18

India

136

9,654

1,265

0.12

Vietnam

182

8,505

1,106

0.11

Thailand

134

7,711

1,026

0.10

Taiwan; China

108

6,751

878

0.09

South Korea

229

19,117

762

0.25

UAE

113

4,883

675

0.06

Hongkong; China

117

4,697

611

0.06

UK

43

3,975

328

0.05

Philippines

65

2,494

324

0.03

Australia

54

2,219

297

0.03

Egypt

38

1,547

201

0.02

Germany

25

1,405

136

0.02

Poland

54

5,357

44

0.07

Switzerland

7

1,274

10

0.02

Others

958

60,790

7,921

0.78

Total

139,447

7,772,358

992,670

100.00

Source: Customs Department

 

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