The National Federation of Sugarcane Planters (NFSP), Inc. calls on the government, through the Bureau of Customs (BoC), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), to immediately act against sugar smuggling in the country as it “poses a very serious threat to the already endangered sugar industry,”
“Sugar smuggling has once again reared its ugly head in the country amid the softening of world sugar prices,” said Enrique D. Rojas, president of the NFSP.
Rojas quoted Jose Mari Miranda, one of NFSP’s officers and president of the Cebu-based Bogo-Medellin Planters Association, as saying that smuggled refined sugar had been entering the country lately.
The smuggled sugar had found its way into the Cebu market and now being distributed in a store in Tabuan, Talisay and in other places in Cebu, said Rojas.
“According to reports the brains behind the sugar smuggling is a politician from Mindanao,” he said. FULL STORY
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