THE government is losing billions of pesos in duties and taxes because of a flawed system of collection on goods that are taxable by weight, according to the Bureau of Customs (BoC), prompting Commissioner Isidro Lapena to order all collectors to subject their shipments to a “magna scale” to avoid misdeclarations.

A magna scale is a system of weighing shipments like tiles, break-bulk cargoes like steel, logs and cement, among others, or non-containerized shipments in which their duties and taxes are assessed by their weight.

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