THOUSANDS of professional Customs brokers are up in arms against a vigorous multinational lobby for passage of a measure in Congress that they claim will render them “extinct.”

In an interview with The Manila Times, officials of the Philippine Society of Filipino Customs Brokers Inc. (The Society), which is affiliated with the Chamber of Customs Brokers Inc. (CCBI), assailed specific provisions of House Bill 5525 or the Customs and Tariff Modernization Act (CMTA) that aim to remove them from business.

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