If the Bureau of Customs (BOC) can find onions in an air passenger’s bag, then there is no reason why it can’t detect smuggled sugar-carrying ships as big as malls, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said on Friday.
If the Bureau of Customs can find onions in an air passenger’s bag, then there is no reason why it can’t detect smuggled sugar-carrying ships as big as malls, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said on Friday.
“In this age of ‘AirTag,’ it will be hard for cargoes to vanish in thin air,” he said, referring to the Apple-made tracking device that can geolocate items to which it has been attached. At present, the BOC employs an Electronic Tracking of Containerized Cargo or e-TRACC System in which a container is armed with a GPS tracker to monitor its movement from ship discharge to its intended destination.
“Kasi kung, halimbawa, ang deklarasyon ay gagamitin lang ang laman nito sa loob ng isang freeport, kaya walang buwis, hindi pwedeng ilabas ‘yan. Otherwise, smuggling na,” Recto said.
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