The Bureau of Customs seized an estimated 145,000 kilograms (145 metric tons) of glutinous (“malagkit”) rice and an estimated 200,000 kilograms (200 metric tons) of garlic illegally imported through the…
In a move to combat the smuggling of tobacco products, the Department of Finance has approved the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s proposed revenue regulation mandating the affixture of internal revenue…
The Bureau of Customs-Manila International Container Port (BOC-MICP) will sell 200,193 sacks of rice through a public auction onThursday, September 11, 2014. The auction is expected to generate proceeds of…
The owner of a trading firm engaged in the importation of counterfeit goods and its customs broker face smuggling-related charges for the illegal entry of various fake products filed by…
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) filed charges before the Department of Justice against the owners and customs brokers of two firms for allegedly illegally importing steel products into the country.…
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”)…
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)…
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…
