Marcos urged to raise rampant smuggling of agriculture goods during China visit

File photo from the Bureau of Customs shows a container filled with smuggled onions at the Mindanao Container Terminal Port in Tagolan, Misamis Oriental. - PDI

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): A peasant group is asking President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to raise the issue of rampant smuggling of agricultural products from China during his three-day state visit there this week.

The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday (Jan 3) pointed out that while China was the Philippines’ leading trade partner in 2021, “there is still an imaginable extent of illicit trade.”