In this period, more than 1 million mobile handsets were imported through the commercial method while 62,000 of the cellphone handsets were imported by passengers, it reported.
According to IRICA, the mobile cellphones imported by passengers in this period registered a 37 percent and 42 percent reduction in volume and value respectively, IRNA reported.
Back on December 30, the president of IRICA said that more than 10 million cellphone handsets, valued at $2.2 billion, had been imported in the first nine months of that year, which started in March 2023.