In its bid to collect additional lawful revenues through post clearance audit, the Bureau of Customs through the Post Clearance Audit Group (PCAG) reports its 1st quarter accomplishment on additional revenue collections for the period January to March 2022.

To fulfill one of the requirements of the Performance Governance System (PGS) Framework, which is Governance Sharing, the Bureau of Customs – Port of Surigao conferred with the Philippine National Police – Province of Surigao del Norte on March 29, 2022, at the Bureau of Customs office, Surigao City.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Management Information Systems and Technology Group (MISTG) launches the Liquidation and Billing System (LBS) and is preparing for its implementation in all ports nationwide on 13 April 2022.

Aligned with the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) mandate to strengthen border security measures and trade facilitation, the X-ray Inspection Project (XIP) successfully scanned a total of 209,030 containers from January to March 2022, improving its scanning performance efficiency by 14% as compared to the same timeline in 2021.

As part of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) commitment to strengthen border security, the Intelligence Group (IG) and Enforcement Group (EG) reported their anti-smuggling efforts for the first quarter of 2022.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) reiterated that only meat and food products with import clearances issued by the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Health (DOH) will be released from the BOC ports.

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.