More than a week after key players in the local sugar industry called on the government to investigate reports of smuggling of the commodity in the country, several shipments of refined sugar worth P150 million were discovered in Subic Bay Freeport. /PDI
Rubio said the shipments would be seized due to violations of Republic Act No. 10863 or the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act, the Sugar Regulatory Authority and the BOC Joint Memorandum Order No. 04-2002 for having no import clearance for the Sugar Regulatory Administration .According to the BOC, two other containers were also found loaded with several misdeclared assorted frozen meat products worth about P40 million.
The senator said the shipment of sugar from Thailand arrived almost a week before the SRA approved the importation of 440,000 MT of the agricultural commodity through Sugar Order No. 6, which was issued on February 15.“Since these are not covered by SO 6, there is no other conclusion but to say that these sugar shipments are smuggled. What other conclusion can be drawn other than that this is government-sponsored smuggling?” Hontiveros said at a press briefing.
The statement was issued by Enrique Rojas, president of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters; Aurelio Gerardo Valderrama Jr., head of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Association Inc.; Pablo Lobregat, president of the Philippine Sugar Millers Association; and Danilo Abelita, Panay Federation of Sugarcane Farmers president.
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