In fulfillment of its mandate to protect the country’s borders and the public from goods that are harmful and unfit for consumption, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Port of Subic destroyed a total of 14×40’ containers of assorted agricultural products such as Onions, Carrots and Fish and other Seafood.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the joint efforts of the Manila International Container Port-Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (MICP-CIIS), Enforcement and Security Service (ESS), Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Trade and Industry, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, National Intelligence and Coordinating Agency, and the Economic Intelligence Sub Task Group on Food Security, busts smuggled agricultural products in an enforcement operation in C.M. Recto Ave., Divisoria, and Tondo, Manila on April 5, 2022.

Further strengthening its anti-corruption campaign, the Bureau of Customs (BOC), continues to intensify its management prerogatives against errant employees. As of January to March 2022 alone, 32 show-cause orders were already issued, which led to the dismissal, suspension, relief, and reshuffling of erring BOC personnel.

The World Customs Organization (WCO) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) held the Leadership and Management Development (LMD) Workshop for the BOC Top Executives from 30 March to 02 April 2022. The Workshop was conducted under the framework of the WCO-BOC Mercator Programme.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) continues taking the lead in advancing trade facilitation initiatives, in line with its aspirations to be at par with the most advanced nations and best practices through the conduct of the National Workshop with the theme “Strengthening the Trade Facilitation Capacity of the Philippines” on April 4-6, 2022, at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati City, Philippines.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on March 2022, records its highest monthly collection in history with P70.727 billion actual collection against its P57.69 billion March 2022 target collection.

The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) held the third (3rd) Capacity Building Workshop for the National Customs Trade Facilitation Champions (TF Champions) from 21 to 25 March 2022 in Manila, Philippines.

The Bureau of Customs continues to intensify its border protection efforts against the smuggling of agricultural products through enhanced intelligence and enforcement operations and strengthened cooperation with the Department of Agriculture (DA).

As the war on drugs of the Duterte administration rages on, the Bureau of Customs-NAIA and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as part of the NAIA Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-DITG) on March 30, 2022 seized shabu concealed in a pressure cooker.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC), through its Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Intellectual Property Rights Division (CIIS-IPRD) and BOC-Port of Manila (POM), seized smuggled counterfeit goods with an estimated value of Php 100,000,000.00 in Valenzuela City on 25 March 2022.