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Senator Imee Marcos on Tuesday, January 31, said smugglers and other criminals guilty of large-scale agricultural sabotage, after years of evasion and bribery, should be clapped in jail for life. Marcos emphasized this after saying she is distraught about hearing smuggling allegations "knowing onl ....
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(File photo) MANILA - The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday said it will support any budget or policy request to bolster government efforts to fight the rampant smuggling of agricultural products in the country. In a statement, committee chairman Joey Salceda said agricultural smuggling is a long-standing issue that will require the full efforts of the entire government. He said the committee is focused on improving legislation on agricultural smuggling, particularly its work on the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act and its rules; the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act, which makes large-scale agricultural smuggling economic sabotage; and the joint guidelines to prevent the smuggling of agricultural products. "We are also studying our special safeguard, anti-dumping, and countervailing duties laws to see how we can fight the deleterious effects of smuggling using amendments to these laws," Salceda said. He said aside from legislation, it is also part of Congress' ....