Philippine customs cracking down on smuggled, sub-standard biofuels

In the Philippines, the Bureau of Customs has seized 31,000 gallons of biodiesel and 476,000 gallons of diesel oil stored at Malabon, plus vessels and trucks used in transit, for non-payment of customs duty. The Bureau also said that the biodiesel failed to meet the tests on the sulfur content (0.05 percent by weight for automotive diesel), because it did not conform with the Clean Air Act or the Biofuels Act of 2006.

The Bureau has been cracking down on smuggling of non-cornforming, untaxed oil.

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