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MORE THAN P66 million contraband goods were intercepted by agents of the Customs Office at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) on Thursday.
Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapena said that shipments were seized for misrepresentation and the lack of required import permits, which includes, among other things, used clothing or "ukay-ukay" and beauty products.
Two of the seven containers belong to Skadi Trading. They contain cosmetic products imported from South Korea and do not carry the Product Registration Certificate of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).
Cosmetics are estimated at 50 million pesos.
recorded at Hepomlan Trading, came from China. They were seized for misrepresentation, lack of import permit, lack of sanitary and phytosanitary clearance, and violation of the Philippine Intellectual Property Law. They are worth at least 8 million pesos
Among the seized cargoes were contraband goods, perfumes, mobile phone batteries, clothes, wallets, glass decors, LED lamps, fake bags, a calculator, a Takoyaki, animal medicine and flour.
On June 21, another cargo belonging to Hepomlan Trading was seized after the customs authorities discovered undeclared boxes of fake G-shock watches. It was estimated at $ 2.25 million
The remaining three containers were shipped to the EPAD Freight Fowarders.
Shipments came from China. They were entered by the informal entry division and were found to contain ukay-ukay and used shoes.
Used clothing and used shoes worth about 8.4 million pesos
MICP collector Vener Baguiran alerted the authorities to a possible violation. Section 1400 of the Customs and Tariff Modernization Act (CMTA) and Law 4653.
The BOC seized more than P3 billion of contraband in the first half of 2018. WILLIAM B DEPASUPIL [19659002]
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