Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez has commended the men and women of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) for a job well done amid pandemic challenges during the agency’s 119th anniversary celebration on Tuesday (Feb 9) in its main office in Manila.
Secretary Dominguez said the BOC has performed “extremely well” in 2020 by continuing to raise better-than-expected revenues, ensuring the free flow of goods, and redoubling its campaign against smuggling even with logistical restrictions and other difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before the main event, the BOC destroyed 10 smuggled luxury vehicles worth a combined P45.2 million, an act that aims to prevent smugglers from circumventing the law by attempting to acquire these vehicles through auction.
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