Peza blind to unrestrained smuggling in ecozones
This has reference to Neal H. Cruz’s Jan. 16 column titled “Sugar being smuggled through Cebu port.”
This has reference to Neal H. Cruz’s Jan. 16 column titled “Sugar being smuggled through Cebu port.”
It seems that anything and everything is being smuggled into the Philippines: rice, pork, vegetables, cars, fireworks, drugs, humans, etc. Very soon, it will be cigarettes, again, and alcoholic drinks because of the new, much higher sin taxes. What is surprising is that while the Philippines used to be one of the world’s biggest exporters [...]
This refers to Neal H. Cruz’s column titled “Economic processing zones being used for smuggling” (Inquirer, 12/14/12). We wish to state that there was nothing irregular with the way we handled the situation, contrary to what some quarters are insinuating. Very briefly, here is the chronology of events: • On Nov. 22, 2012, subject shipment [...]
