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AN importer was sentenced by a metropolitan court to up to 4-year imprisonment for agricultural smuggling after misdeclaring a shipment of carrots as pastry buns, according to the Customs bureau. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said the Metropolitan Trial Court-National Judicial Capital Region (MTC-NJCR) Branch 24 convicted a certain Divina Bisco Aguilar, the proprietor of
Philippine Canadian Inquirer BOC sues rice importers following Bulacan warehouse raid News
THE Supreme Court has junked the petition filed by the Chamber of Customs Brokers Inc. (CCBI) seeking to declare as unconstitutional a provision in the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act, which limits the powers of customs brokers. In a 13-page decision, the Court’s Second Division affirmed the ruling issued by the Court of Appeals (CA),
President Marcos says it should only take a week and not 15 days – as provided by law – for suspected smugglers to prove that their shipment is legal
GENERAL TRIAS, Cavite: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants to shorten the 15 days given to rice importers to prove the legitimacy of shipments that have been confiscated by the Bureau of Customs (BoC).