After its restoration effort since last year, the Port of Cagayan de Oro finally welcomed its maiden voyage which commence the restoration of the international containerized shipment in Macabalan Port after 12 years.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the joint operations of the Manila International Container Port-Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (MICP-CIIS) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), seized an estimated P9 million worth of imported fake cigarettes from a warehouse located in Valenzuela City.
The Bureau of Customs – Port of Clark, in coordination with CAIDTF, ESS, CIIS, XIP and PDEA, seized 1.16 kilograms of Kush Marijuana with an estimated value of 1.5-million pesos found inside a shipment of “computer circuit board” last February 22, 2022.
The Bureau of Customs, through its Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Port of Manila Field Office (BOC-CIIS-POM), apprehended various goods and ukay-ukay items amounting to an estimated value of Php 500 million in Valenzuela City on March 07, 2022.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the joint operations of the Manila International Container Port-Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (MICP-CIIS) and the National Bureau of Investigation-Special Action Unit (NBI-SAU) implemented Letters of Authority (LOA) against warehouses of imported goods in Punturin, Valenzuela City, and Taytay, Rizal on March 11, 2022.
To implement pertinent provisions of RA 10863 or the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) 2016 related to the establishment and supervision of Customs Bonded Warehouse (CBW) and to consolidate all existing Customs Administrative Orders (CAOs) dealing on CBWs, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) issues CAO No. 01-2022 with subject “Customs Bonded Warehouses”.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) participated in the World Customs Organization – Gender Equality and Diversity Network Conference held last 8 March 2022 in celebration of the International Women’s Day 2022.
The Bureau of Customs – Port of Clark participated in the live integrated trials as part of the preparations on the forthcoming operations of the new terminal of the Clark International Airport.
The Bureau of Customs officially submitted the report on the “Readiness Assessment for Cross-Border Paperless Trade: The Philippines” on March 01, 2022, to fulfill its obligation as a member party to the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (CPTA). The report is co-published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC).
Through the combined efforts of the Bureau’s Action Team Against Smugglers (BATAS) under the Revenue Collection Monitoring Group (RCMG), the Port of Subic, and the Port of Cebu, the BOC successfully filed criminal complaints on 4 March 2022 before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against three (3) traders of alleged smuggled agricultural products amounting to over P25.8 million.
