President Marcos has directed the customs and internal revenue bureaus to enhance their efforts against the smuggling of tobacco and vape products, during a meeting that tackled measures aimed at protecting the Philippines’ tobacco industry.
“Enforcement and anti-smuggling and all that – you really have to beef them up, and I think we’re doing that,” Marcos said during the sixth Private Sector Advisory Council-Agriculture Sector Group meeting at Malacañang last Wednesday.MANILA, Philippines —
Special Assistant to the President on Investment and Economic Affairs Frederick Go said the trade department’s consumer protection group has assured him that a “significant” number of personnel would be tasked to monitor the vape industry. Last November, Lumagui said as much as P60 billion in taxes was lost in 2023 because of the illicit tobacco trade, which he said provides an unfair advantage that leads to the decline of the tobacco business.
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