The Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized some P2.45 million of cigarettes in an anti-smuggling operation in Davao City.
In a statement, the BOC Port of Davao said the 4,250 reams of smuggled cigarettes worth 2.45 million was seized along with a Hyundai Porter Freezer Van in a checkpoint in Toril Distric
Behind a pile of used car parts inside a container van that arrived from Japan was a white Porsche 911 GT3 RS in what officials described as another smuggling attempt of luxury vehicles into the country, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) disclosed on Thursday, Sept. 8.
And it would have not been detecte
Published July 5, 2021, 2:25 PM
DAVAO CITY – Ten containers of smuggled “ukay-ukay” or used clothing worth P4.8 million intercepted at the Port of Davao here were destroyed in the first quarter of 2021, an official of Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Davao said.
Atty. Erastus Sandino B. Austria, district collector of BOC-Davao, said that there is no letup in their efforts to secure the borders of the region just to ensure that contrabands would not reach the local markets.
Austria said the entry of illegal items pose health threats to local buyers.
He said the ukay-ukay must be condemned as this is one of the items whose importation is prohibited under Republic Act (RA) No. 4653 passed in 1966 “to safeguard the health of the people and maintain the dignity of the nation by declaring it a national policy to prohibit the commercial importation of textile articles commonly known as used clothing and rags.” “If it’s absolutely prohibited, then we cannot auction them, we cannot s
DAVAO, Apr. 17 The Bureau of Customs (BOC) - Port of Davao conducted its first Online Stakeholders’ Dialogue for the year 2021.
Participated by the Port’s top exporters-importers and several customs brokers, the virtual dialogue last April 15, 2021 discussed among others, the current policies and procedures of BOC as it now caters to online transaction of goods processed through the Customer Care Portal System (CCPS).
District Collector, Atty. Erastus Sandino B. Austria of the Port of Davao said, “These discussions provide us, in the government and you in the private sector, the opportunity to collaboratively discuss our common goals and viewpoints. And through this, we are able to review our current processes, rationalize our reform agenda, and arrive at better solutions.”