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.

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.