Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing, Inc. (PMPM) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) lauded the Bureau of Customs (BOC) after the agency seized ₱83.7 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in Bulacan. Last April 24, the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International...
Tatsuya Shiga, who heads Japan Tobacco's (JT) Kansai factory in Kyoto, just a few weeks ago visited the cigarette giant's manufacturing plant in the Philippines. Speaking to Manila Bulletin after a media tour of the Kansai facility on Nov. 27, Tatsuya-san noted that the factory in Malvar, Batangas,...
The purchasing of illegal cigarettes has increasingly become a normal behavior among adult smokers in the Philippines and three other countries, according to a study by Japan Tobacco International (JTI). Based on its study titled “Fighting the Dark Underworld,” which also included France, the...
A tobacco company said that ratifying the anti-agricultural economic sabotage bill will minimize the losses from the government’s revenues and farmers. Japan Tobacco International (JTI) said that the increasing illicit cigarette trade in the Philippines poses a significant threat to the...
The local unit of international cigarette giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is urging the government to address the growing illicit trading activities in the country amid the coronavirus crisis. In a statement, John Freda, JTI Philippines general manager, said over the weekend...