ICYMI: Albay Rep. Joey Salceda claims that a syndicate led by Chinese nationals is behind the smuggling of agricultural products in the country, as he vowed to focus his panel’s oversight functions on cracking down on this “mafia.”
“President Marcos wants to fight the double whammy of high domestic agri prices and high rates of agri smuggling which benefit only the smugglers. We join him in that fight,” the lawmaker said, as he noted his panel’s “oversight [on] the implementation of the [Department of Agriculture’s and Bureau of Customs’] task forces and regulations on agricultural smuggling.”
“They have people in the ships, the ports, the inspections, the quarantines, the warehouses, and the economic zones. It’s very pervasive,” he said further, as he vowed to have this matter investigated “from top to bottom, and from end to end.”“Rice tariffication helped undercut their control significantly in the rice trade sector.
Apart from the drive against smuggling, the committee will follow up on its request to the DOF to resolve the policy on the value-added tax for indirect exporters, Salceda said. “I am not yet fixed on higher rates for alcohol across the board, but I definitely want alcomixes to be taxed in parity with beer,” Salceda said.
Seventh, the panel will begin “briefings on junk food taxes” and on whether the Department of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the DOF could implement such taxes.
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