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(Eagle News)–Authorities have seized P8.8-million worth of smuggled items from the port of Manila, the Bureau of Customs said. In a statement, the bureau said the shipment, which arrived on June 20 from China, was intercepted on Aug. 26, following a tip. An alert order had been issued against it on July 7. The bureau said the shipment had been declared as a luggage trolly and a toothpaste holder, but a check showed it contained […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has intercepted P54.6 million worth of smuggled cigarettes. In a statement, the bureau said the 1092 cases were in a 40-foot container that arrived in the Port of Cebu on Aug. 16. The container, which was consigned to GRR Trading, had been declared as containing drawers, tables, cabinets and lockers. According to the bureau, based on a tip, Carlo A. Bautista, chief of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has seized over half a million pesos worth of smuggled rice from Myanmar. The bureau said the 495 bags of white rice were intercepted on Aug. 10 from the port of Cebu. This was made possible following a tip that a shipment that arrived from Kaohsiung, Taiwan on July 23 was loaded with imported rice. The Inward Foreign Manifest had declared the shipment contained personal effects of a […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has destroyed around P500 million worth of fake goods. In a statement, the bureau said personnel at the Port of Manila did the crushing and shredding at the RCU Waste Management Facility in Valenzuela City. The condemnation proceeding, it said, was done in accordance with Section 1146 of RA 10863 or the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act. The event was witnessed by Port of Manila District Collector Michael Angelo Vargas, […]
(Eagle News)–The Customs bureau said it has seized P186.9 million worth of misdeclared cigarettes from the Manila port. In a statement, the bureau said based on documents, the seven containers contained towels, school bags, bed sheets, non-woven bags and fabrics but were found to contain 6249 cigarette cases instead. The shipment had been declared as coming from China. According to the bureau, the haul marks the biggest seizure of cigarettes by the Manila International Container […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has exceeded its yearly P10-billion rice tariff target in seven months. The bureau said it collected the P10.728 billion in revenues from January to July 17 for remittance to the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund under the Rice Import Tariffication Law, an 8 percent increase from the P9.936 billion collected for the same period in 2019. According to the BOC, the P10.728 billion in revenues collected were despite a 24.6 percent […]
(Eagle News)–The government has seized P2.6 million worth of fake cigarettes from a warehouse in Isabela, the Bureau of Customs said. According to the bureau, the 86 cases were seized from an abandoned truck in the warehouse in Santiago during a raid on Friday, July 17. The raid was by virtue of a letter of authority signed by Customs Comissioner Rey Guerrero. An inventory is currently on-going to determine the exact volume of the seized […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has surpassed its June 2020 revenue collection target by P1.8 billion, with P42.539 billion collected that month. The Customs bureau said the amount, which it said it collected despite the effects of COVID-19 to the overall trading environment and the stringent community quarantine, represents an increase by 4.4 percent from its target of P40.739 billion. According to the BOC, based on the preliminary report from the BOC-Financial Service, eleven of […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has collected P487 million in additional revenues as a result of its post-clearance audits on importers. The BOC said in a statement on Saturday, June 20, that of this amount, P19,755,564.47 were the result of an audit on five companies/importers, while P160,027,224.51 were collected from 24 companies that applied for the Prior Disclosure Program and were covered by existing Audit Notification Letters issued against Customs bonded warehouse operators and their […]
