The Bureau of Customs (BOC) collected P8.35 billion from rice import tariffs in the first five months of the year, up by 14 percent as against P7.32 billion same period in 2021 on higher import volumes. BOC collections increased because of a 36.9 percent growth in import volumes from January 1 to M
The Bureau of Customs has failed to raise up to P22 million for pandemic response from the auction of four luxury vehicles seized by the BOC from smugglers.
THE government’s second public auction of five seized luxury cars once again fetched no bidders, opening the possibility for the Duterte administration to resort to destroying these vehicles. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III told reporters the government may consider destroying these vehicles. “Destruction is an option,” said Dominguez, who…
(Chinese Embassy in Manila)
Among those who witnessed the arrival of the Sinovac Biotech-made vaccines from China were President Duterte, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco T. Duque III, and Senator Christopher “Bong” Go.
BOC Commissioner Rey Leonardo B. Guerrero, Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group Deputy Commissioner Edward James Dy Buco, and NAIA District Collector Carmelita M. Talusan supervised the inaugural arrival of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jabs.
The vaccines were processed and released through the bureau’s advance clearance process to ensure its expedient release and delivery. Underguarding duties were also done by the BOC’s COVAX Special Handling Task Force, which was composed of members of NAIA’s Enforcement and Security Service and Aircraft Operations Division.
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