Immediately after the turn-over ceremony on July 25, 2022, Yogi Filemon Ruiz, the newly appointed Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner, led the inspection of the Atlas Express Padala, Inc. hub in Gerona, Tarlac to facilitate the delivery of the Balikbayan Boxes of our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from the Middle East. Accompanying him was Mr. Joel P. Longares, the Door-to-Door Consolidators Association of the Philippines (DDCAP) President.

Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz formally assumed office as the Head of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) following the turnover ceremony at the Customs head office in Port Area, Manila on July 25, 2022.

The Bureau of Customs Port of Cagayan de Oro has foiled another agricultural smuggling attempt in its continuous anti-smuggling operations on July 22, 2022 at Mindanao Container Terminal Port, PHIVIDEC Compound, Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.

Bureau of Customs-Port of Cagayan de Oro busted four (4) containers of smuggled agricultural products anew at Mindanao Container Terminal Port, PHIVIDEC Compound, Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on July 19, 2022.

Bureau of Customs – Port of Legazpi on July 20, 2022, took over 52 bundles of misdeclared imported used clothes or “ukay-ukay”, which were seized by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)- Sorsogon at Matnog Port in Sorsogon on July 13.

Customs Commissioner Rey Leonard B. Guerrero attended the 29th Supply Link Conference and Exhibit held virtually on July 15, 2022 where he underscored the various transformation programs that were implemented in the Bureau of Customs (BOC) under his leadership.

BOC Port of NAIA in partnership with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as part of the NAIA-Inter-agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (IADITG), on July 18, 2022 conducted a controlled delivery operation in Cebu City.

Bureau of Customs-Sub-port of Iligan, together with the Criminal Investigation Detection Group Lanao Del Sur Provincial Field Unit, seized smuggled cigarettes on July 12, 2022 at Brgy. Matampay, Balagabagan, Lanao del sur.

The Port of Batangas turned over one (1) unit Husqvarna Chainsaw to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources CENRO Lipa on 11 July 2022.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) convenes stakeholders and media partners to present its 2016 to 2022 accomplishments under the Duterte Administration and to discuss current procedures in the Processing of Consolidated Shipments of Balikbayan Boxes, held on 12 July 2022 at the BOC Office of the Commissioner Conference Room and via Facebook Live Coverage.