BOC rejects Mighty appeal to lift suspension order
The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) has denied Mighty Corporation’s motion to lift a suspension order against its accreditation for failure to present documentary…
Depot raid by BOC yields used clothing, counterfeit goods
Agents of the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) recently raided a central supply depot of used clothing or ‘ukay-ukay’ and counterfeit imported goods along…
PH, China customs agencies partner in fight against drug smuggling
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) have teamed up with China’s Fujian Provincial Drug Law Enforcement Agency in…
PH Customs closely investigates smuggling in top 3 imports
Philippine Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon has directed his agency’s intelligence and investigation service to look into reports of rampant smuggling of the country’s top…
BOC levies charges against alleged smugglers of refined sugar worth P6M
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) recently filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) smuggling charges against alleged illegal importers that brought in refined sugar…
BOC imposes strict ‘no import permit, no release’ policy for rice shipments
The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) is now strictly prohibiting the entry of rice into the Philippines without the importer showing an import permit…
BOC nabs shipments misdeclared as glutinous rice at Manila port
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized a total of 20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) with misdeclared information that arrived for transshipment at the…
BOC continues to release meat imports despite DA recall of SPS permits
Philippine Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon reassured stakeholders there will be no port congestion and undue delays in Customs operations in the wake of the…
The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has cancelled all import permits for meat and agricultural products to curb the rise in smuggling during the…
Senator Cynthia Villar is asking the Cold Chain Association of the Philippines (CCAP) to police the cold storage industry, as she divulged information that…
BOC chief welcomes call for probe on pork smuggling
Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina has thrown his support to a Lower House resolution urging an immediate investigation into pork smuggling. “We at the BOC…
PH firms in hot water for attempt to smuggle rice, Peking duck
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has brought formal charges against two consignees for alleged unlawful importations, one of Thai white rice valued at about…
Aquino asked to sign Customs modernization act to deter smuggling
Philippine Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto is urging President Benigno Aquino III to sign into law the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), saying…
BOC files case vs alleged smugglers of jewelry, used tires worth P18M
Charges have been levied against the consignee of used tires seized at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) and an importer of assorted pieces…
BOC intel group may pore over export declarations with tax refunds
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has authorized its Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) to have access to export information to “maximize the anti-smuggling…
The Bureau of Customs-Enforcement Group (BOC-EG) seized early this month P12.675 million worth of fake imported cigarettes, the agency’s biggest haul of such products…
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has filed smuggling charges against two consignees of alleged illegal shipments of imported rice and pyrotechnics with a total…
House bill equates agricultural smuggling with economic sabotage
Large-scale smuggling of agricultural products should be elevated to an act of economic sabotage and imposed harsher punishment. This is the proposal of Marikina…
