The Run After The Smugglers (RATS) Program of the Bureau of Customs netted one of the country’s major importers of steel and stainless products, three companies engaged in onion smuggling and an importer of general merchandise as the agency continues to wage an unrelenting campaign to make smuggling unprofitable.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) filed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) various charges involving violations of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines against the proprietors of two companies found to have brought in assorted products with an estimated value of over P300 million during the last six months alone.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) scored another hit in its campaign against technical smuggling when it seized and confiscated ten (10) 20-footer container vans of angle bars with total value of P7 million.
It used to be that the influx of counterfeit goods from neighboring sources was unabated. Cheap branded items from designer apparel, toys and light tools and machinery flooded the market until recently when the Bureau of Customs, thru the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service’s Intellectual Property Division flexed its muscles and stood form in its drive to weed out fake goods.
A new requirement has been added to the layers of regulatory measures being implemented by the Bureau of Customs to prevent the entry of illegally imported motor vehicles into the country.
The Bureau of Customs filed a P5 billion smuggling case today against Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc., one of the leading independent oil industry players in the country which in 2009 was ranked 211th among the countries top 10,000 corporations.
Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez has ordered the agency’s Legal Service to determine if there is legal basis to require that transshipment cargoes eventually to be entered under consumption entries are processed, assessed and paid for at their port of discharge.
The Bureau of Customs raided today a warehouse in Binondo, Manila suspected of being used as storage of smuggled goods and allegedly being maintained by persons supplying counterfeit goods to stall owners at the 168, 999 and 1159 Malls.
The Bureau of Customs seized today assorted contraband consisting of top of the line bicycles, branded sports shoes and used clothing with a combined value of P20 million on orders of Custom Commissioner Angelito Alvarez.
The Bureau of Customs filed smuggling charges today against an officer of an oil importing company whose modus operandi was detected based on information provided by one of the agency’s accredited international bulk and break-bulk cargo surveyors.
