Smugglers are finding it difficult to spirit their contraband out of the Bureau of Customs.
The Bureau of Customs did not meet its September cash collection goal of P23.358 B but the agency is surprisingly on target to surpass last year’s total cash collection of P198.2 B as early as mid-November this year.
Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez ordered today the seizure of 32 containers of white rice worth P20 million which were unloaded December 5 at the Cebu International Container Port.
Four container vans loaded with premium white rice but misdeclared as fishmeal by its importer have been impounded on orders of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez.
Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez presented today to Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, Senator Francis Pangilinan, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Alyansa ng Mga Magsasaka executive director Ernesto Ordonez what remains of 8×40 footer containers of onions that were seized by customs operatives September 3 this year.
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