A lady importer who allowed her company to be used as a front by smugglers for a fee was the subject of a smuggling complaint filed by the Bureau of Customs today before the Department of Justice.

The Bureau of Customs has lowered the boom on the rapists of the ocean.

In a complaint filed today with the Department of Justice, Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez charged the owner, consignee, shippers and haulers of the P35 million worth of black corals and other endangered marine species which the BOC intercepted last month at the Eva Macapagal Domestic Terminal Container Yard of the Port of Manila.

Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez ordered today the seizure of a huge volume of smuggled sugar which were found by customs intelligence operatives in the same industrial compound in Bulacan where some 26,000 bags of smuggled onions from China and India were confiscated only a week ago.

The long slumbering Port of San Fernando in La Union, utilized mainly by rice, coal and fertilizer shippers, will soon become a hub for the fast, safe, cost-efficient and convenient movement of containerized cargoes in Region I.

Thousands of counterfeit goods were destroyed this morning as the Bureau of Customs conducted one of its biggest condemnations of confiscated smuggled products this early in the year.

The Bureau of Customs collected P20.224 billion in duties and taxes in January, exceeding by P216 million its assigned revenue goal for the month.

The Bureau of Customs has found a way to reward importers who adhere to ethical business practices.

The BOC filed smuggling charges today against the General Manager and a major stockholder of a small, under-capitalized company that was able to import nearly P8.5 billion worth of petroleum products between March 2009 and September this year.

Twenty containers of wheat flour misdeclared as General Merchandise items, Two units of Isuzu ten-wheeler trucks, two containers of frozen mackerel and a container of amplifiers misdeclared as footwear are among the illegally imported commodities valued at 50 million pesos that the Bureau of Customs confiscated today.

Customs Commissioner Lito Alvarez announced today the seizure of 32 drums of toluene, a controlled substance that narcotics chemists could have used to produce two (2) tons of shabu with an estimated street value of P1.5 billion.