COTABATO CITY: A forum aimed at reviving barter trading and eliminating smuggling was conducted by the Bureau of Customs in this city recently with the Department of Trade and Industry of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DTI-ARMM) in partnership with the Regional Economic Zone Authority (REZA) and the Polloc Free Port.

It was a step taken by the DTI to encourage even small business traders to legalize all their importing transactions to remove misconceptions that they are a party to alleged smuggling of products from Malaysia and Indonesia.

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