Ia mengemukakan hal itu ketika dimintai tanggapannya tentang pernyataan Dirjen Bea Cukai Departemen Keuangan Anwar Suprijadi di Jakarta baru-baru ini bahwa penerapan NSW ditunda hingga Desember mendatang dari jadwal semula sekitar bulan Maret 2007.
Amiruddin was responding to a statement made recently by director general of customs and excise of the Finance Ministry, Anwar Suprijadi, that the implementation of NSW had been postponed until December from March as originally planned.