Senator Imee Marcos on Tuesday, January 31, said smugglers and other criminals guilty of large-scale agricultural sabotage, after years of evasion and bribery, should be clapped in jail for life. Marcos emphasized this after saying she is distraught about hearing smuggling allegations "knowing only...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has surpassed its revenue collection target four days before the end of January this year. In a statement, BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the target revenue collection for January is P58.822 billion but on Jan. 27. he said the revenue collection was already at...
Overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) may enjoy tax- and duty-free balikbayan boxes if this House bill, authored by Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, is passed into law. Inspection of balikbayan boxes by Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz (Ali Vicoy/MANILA BULLETIN) House Bill (HB) No....
Agents of the Bureau of Customs seized P9.49 million of onions believed to have been smuggled into the country through the waters of Zamboanga City. In a statement, the BOC said the confiscation was based on two separate operations in Barangay Labuan on Jan. 22 and in Barangay Cawit the following...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is bent on digitalizing government processes and transactions particularly in the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in a bid to curb rampant smuggling in the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Marcos noted that more...
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Joey Salceda believes that digitalization is a simple solution to the Bureau of Customs' (BOC) perennial problems of undervaluation of goods and smuggling. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (MANILA BULLETIN) “Let’s revisit the BOC’s...
Officials and personnel of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Agriculture (DA)--including clerks and security guards--ought to be subjected to a thorough, top to bottom lifestyle check. Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes (Screenshot from Facebook) Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, will reveal information from “top-level intelligence” about agricultural smuggling in the country “at the proper time". The House Committee on Ways and Means, chaired by Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has intensified the implementation of its digital cargo monitoring system as part of its preventive measures against smuggling. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the Electronic Tracking of Containerized Cargo System (E-TRACC) enables the agency to conduct real-time...
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has foiled an alleged attempt to smuggle some P160 million worth of cigarettes during an operation at the Mindanao Container Terminal Port in Misamis Oriental. The cigarettes were loaded in two container vans that were declared as personal effects. photo: BOC...
The names of alleged big-time oil smugglers were revealed on Thursday, January 19 during a Senate consultation meeting called by Senator Raffy Tulfo with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) on the controversial fuel marking program. Tulfo, chairman of the Senate energy...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) have started meeting to facilitate the sharing of electronic Phytosanitary Certificate (e-Phyto) with other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The DA, through the Bureau of Plant Industry, said the move...
