The Bureau of Customs (BOC) announced that it has joined the Philippine Trade Facilitation Committee (PTFC) to come up with interventions to improve the movement of goods in the country. Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero (Photo courtesy of the BOC) The bureau will serve as...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) welcomed the creation of the Philippine Trade Facilitation Committee (PTFC), saying this will further enhance the streamlining efforts in the Bureau of Customs. Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) Director-General Jeremiah Belgica (Photo from ARTA) ARTA...
Authorities discovered P70 million worth of alleged fake and smuggled face shields from China in a raid in Parañaque City on Thursday, May 20, as the government tightens its monitoring of counterfeit coronavirus disease (COVID-19) safety equipment that are flooding the market. Personnel of the...
The Bureau of Customs - Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA), in coordination with the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) has successfully processed the release of the latest batch of CoronaVac brand vaccines to arrive in the country. (Photo from BOC) Arriving aboard Cebu Pacific flight no.5J671 at 7:30...
Bureau of Customs-Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) agents have uncovered over P3 million worth of ķetamine "party drugs" from a package declared as "snacks". (Photo from BOC) Records show that the package arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) last May 10, 2021 from Malaysia. Customs...
Various seized goods such as counterfeit cigarettes and smuggled cars worth P763 million were destroyed by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) via backhoe-thrashing. CRUSHED--Seized smuggled and counterfeit items amounting to P763 million were disposed off by the Bureau of Customs. (Photo courtesy of the...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the government’s tax collections from cellular phone shipments increased by more than quarter in the first four-months of the year despite lower volumes. Preliminary data submitted by the Bureau of Customs to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III revealed...
Bureau of Customs (BOC) agents from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) helped in the arrest of two claimants of three packages that turned out to contain P15.7 million worth of the "party drug" known as Ecstasy. (Photo from BOC) The claimants, identified as Rowena Canapit and Michael De...
Bales of used clothing or "ukay-ukay" worth P7 million were prevented from being distributed to local markets after Bureau of Customs (BOC) agents from the Port of Iloilo discovered the contraband at a warehouse in Bacolod City. P7-M 'UKAY-UKAY' SEIZED -- Bales of used clothing were seized from a...
Some P16 million worth of smuggled meat ended up in the hands of Bureau of Customs (BOC) operatives over the weekend, the agency said in a statement Sunday, May 9. Yielding the contraband during an operation on Friday, May 7 was a storage facility located in Navotas City. Seized were frozen peking...
Instead of paper products, boxes of cigarettes amounting to P20.37 million was found in a shipment from China which was transported to the country through the Port of Manila, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Saturday, May 8. SMUGGLED CIGARETTES FOILED -- A shipment only declared as papers but...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is now transitioning into an "enhanced" customer assistance system through the help of a third-party service provider. Enhanced customer service -- The Bureau of Customs (BOC) transitions into a new and 'enhanced' customer assistance system through the help of a...
