Smuggled na carrots at mga puting sibuyas galing China, nakumpiska ng D.A. at BOC sa Subic

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00:00The fruits of the more intense surveillance against agricultural smuggling in the country.

00:05Millions of smuggled agri-products and cigarettes

00:08that the government tried to ban.

00:11This is Clazel Fardilia for Report.

00:17Shabu-Shabu's five containers that arrived at Subic International Terminal Corporation

00:25But when the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Customs opened and inspected,

00:31smuggled carrots and white onions arrived.

00:36From China, 144 tons of cargo arrived.

00:41No certificate of product registration

00:44and no sanitary or phytosanitary permit.

00:47The products were proven to be legitimate and safe to eat.

00:51This is like the last onions last month

00:55that were impacted in a warehouse in Navotas,

00:57which turned out to be positive for the high level of chemicals

01:01and e-coli or bacteria that humans or animals get from the soil.

01:05We were opening the boxes and looking at the quality.

01:08It seems to be the same quality as what we saw in Navotas.

01:12For our safety, food safety,

01:14we are not sure what is the origin of this,

01:17what is the process that it went through.

01:20That is where it is already risky, it is already high risk.

01:24And then second, for the local industry, of course, we do have production.

01:29If this gets into our markets, there will be a little disruption.

01:34Of course, the price may go down

01:37because it will flood our market, the illegal goods.

01:42Aside from vegetables and rice,

01:44there are other products that were approved by the operatives.

01:47Two more container vans were opened by the Department of Agriculture

01:51and the Bureau of Customs.

01:53This shipping container is one of them.

01:55In front of it, there are tissues.

01:57But after being removed one by one,

01:59this is where the smuggled cigarettes boxes were discovered from Taiwan.

02:05Cigarettes are worth P115 million.

02:09That is why more than P130 million were confiscated.

02:15The consignees will be fined and will face several cases.

02:20They are doing smuggling to basically avoid taxes as far as tobacco is concerned.

02:29Onions and carrots can take advantage of the price in the Philippines versus other countries.

02:37The importers will be blacklisted.

02:40And to prevent the fight against agricultural products,

02:44the Congress and the Senate of the D.A. will request

02:47to increase the funds to the Enforcement Bureau of the agency to P200 million

02:53from the current P50 million.

02:56The D.A. will punish the smugglers.

02:58The Bureau of Customs and the Department of Agriculture are on top of the situation.

03:03All of them will be chased.

03:04That is the order of our President.

03:06Kalei Zalpardilia for Pambansang TV in the new Philippines.

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