“A new law is needed if we want to empower the DA and DTI to confiscate smuggled items,” Senator Aquilino Martin L. Pimentel III, who chairs the chamber’s committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship, said in a Viber message.
Mr. Pimentel noted that although the current law allows the Bureau of Customs to apprehend smuggled items, their implementation is lacking.The La Trinidad Vegetable Trading Areas, the largest agriculture organization in Benguet with about 10,000 members, said in a statement at the weekend that vegetable farmers are losing an average of P2.5 million a day with daily orders declining by up to 40% due to the influx of smuggled vegetables.
“We have a situation where agencies take no action even when smuggling is brazenly committed. So aside from the fact that the BoC and the DA have been compromised, there are untouchables,” Senator Francis Pancratius N. Pangilinan said.
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