As part of continuing efforts to reform the Bureau of Customs, Customs Commissioner Rozzano Rufino B. Biazon directed all personnel of the Bureau, regardless of rank, position, designation and current…
PhP 15 Million Smuggled Used Clothing Seized by BOC Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon today (July 12, 2013) led the inspection of four (4) forty-footer container vans of used clothing (“ukay-ukay”)…
Donated relief goods are exempted from import duties provided they are properly consigned to DSWD or to any DSWD-accredited organization. In addition, the exemption is granted through a documentation and…
Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima issued a department order on November 12 assigning several divisions of the agency to work on rotation to ensure 24-hour staffing for the Department of Finance…
The reinvigorated anti-smuggling program of the Bureau of Customs has yet caused another filing of smuggling charges against two (2) traders and two (2) customs brokers today (October 17, 2013)…
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon today (October 7, 2013) raised optimism on improving the Bureau of Customs (BOC) revenue collection performance with the assumption into office of the BOC’s five (5)…
Thousands of jobs and unsuspecting consumers may have been saved from the ill effects of piracy and smuggling by the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) condemnation of PhP 300 million worth…
In compliance with President Aquino’s order for the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to criminally charge suspected smugglers to keep them off the country’s ports, Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon today (August…
Three (3) twenty-footer container vans of “ukay-ukay” (used clothing) worth PhP 4.5 million and suspected to be illegally imported from the United States of America (USA) were seized recently by…
The Department of Finance (DOF) refuted reports that specific lifestyle checks and tax audits would be conducted on personnel of the Bureau of Customs, (BOC), specifically 27 officials who had…
