MANILA, Philippines — Approximately 150,000 families will benefit from the seized frozen mackerel worth P178.5 million, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Saturday. According to the BOC, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Social Welfare and Development, and Department of Interior and Local Government will distribute the frozen goods to 17 local government units in Metro Manila and in one region each i…

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President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has ordered the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and Department of Agriculture (DA) to go after smugglers of agricultural goods and file appropriate cases against them under the new law penalizing their acts as economic sabotage.

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MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Saturday, December 14, that the ₱178.5-million worth of smuggled frozen mackerel seized at the Manila port will be his administration’s first case under the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act of 2024. The President made the announcement during his visit to the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), where he inspected millions of pesos worth of frozen mackerel that were co…

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Bureau of Customs and the Department of Agriculture to step up efforts to enforce the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act, following the seizure of P178.5 million worth of smuggled mackerel in Manila on Saturday, December 14.

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By Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos SMUGGLED. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (4th from left) inspects an estimated PHP178.5 million worth of confiscated frozen mackerel imported from China at Manila International Container Terminal in Tondo, Manila on Saturday (Dec. 14, 2024). Marcos ordered the distribution of the smuggled frozen mackerel to evacuation centers, hospitals, care facilities and prison facilities. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang Press Corps…

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