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THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) plans to make Port of Liway in Bataan a
separate collection district from Aparri in Cagayan due to projected
influx of investors in the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA).
Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales said the
separation of Port Liway will enhance the bureau’s revenue
collection, trade facilitation and trade security, adding President
Arroyo wants it to be a district for crude importation.
“We are anticipating influx of investors in
CEZA, and we will try to plug all smuggling loopholes,” Morales
told reporters, adding Customs will issue a memorandum order next
month, although an executive order has yet to be issued.
The BOC has 15 collection districts across the
Philippines, which all expressed confidence they would meet the
bureau’s full year target of P254.4 billion.
Major contributors to the BOC’s proceeds this
year are the Port of Manila, which has the highest revenue target
among all the districts with 33 percent to P84.4 billion of the
target, followed by the Manila International Container Port with P64
billion, or 25.15 percent and the 22.37 percent to P58.9 billion of
Batangas.
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport has to
collect P18 billion to meet the 7-percent target this year, while TE
has a target of P7.5 billion during the 12-month period.
Cebu is set to collect P5 billion; Subic, 4.78
billion; Surigao, P2.9 billion, and San Fernando, P1.1 billion.
BOC districts with less than a billion-peso
collection goal this year are Clark, Zamboanga, Surigao, Tacloban,
Iloilo, and Legazpi.
-- Chino S. Leyco
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