The paper says it is President Marcos’ responsibility to dismantle the mafia behind the rampant smuggling of agricultural products. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANILA - Citing “Class A information” from well-placed sources, Albay Rep. Joey Salceda declared with absolute certainty that a syndicate led by Chinese nationals has been behind the smuggling into the country of prime agricultural products, including red onions, which now cost three times more from last year and as much as 40 per cent more than the price of prime cuts of beef.
Recent raids by the Bureau of Customs seem to bear this out. In just 42 days since Nov 12 last year, the BOC seized 60 shipping containers of contraband agricultural products worth some P253 million , including red and white onions found in 25 of the flagged containers. A third of the containers intercepted at the Manila and Subic ports came from China, with the contents falsely declared as steamed buns and frozen seafood.
After all, the President has said that he wants to fight the “double whammy” of high local prices of agricultural goods and the high incidence of smuggling that only benefits smugglers. The KMP claimed that the smuggling of onions from China has triggered an “alarming” rise in the local prices of onions, a necessary ingredient in many Filipino dishes.
As the Marcos Jr. administration leans on China to do its part, it should also exert its political will to harness the full force of government to follow through on Salceda’s findings and prosecute this Chinese mafia and its cohorts. Salceda’s revelations are not exactly new and yet, inexplicably, the perpetrators have remained unpunished.
The DA has estimated that between 2019 and 2022 alone, P667.5 million worth of smuggled agri-fishery goods were seized. For its part, the BOC has conducted 542 operations that yielded P1.99 billion worth of agri-products. Yet those involved have remained scot-free.
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