MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs is tapping the so-called Big Data Analytics and information communications technology to combat “trade mis-invoicing” or smuggling. Yasser Abbas, BOC-IAS director, said the NVVS was designed “in-house” by the BOC’s own ICT-savvy officers as it seeks to combat smuggling or what the World Customs Organization terms as trade mis-invoicing. Abbas told The STAR that the WCO was still studying the use of Big Data Analytics to combat trade mis-invoicing. That’s why we have prohibited this, and with the NVVS, we will put a stop to this,” Abbas said. Everything is provided to the Commissioner as well as to all our district collectors,” Abbas said.

Source: Philippine Star July 20, 2019 16:00 UTC