BOC said this year's revenue collections are historically the agency's highest to date. The bureau attributed the record take to its stringent implementation of priority programs to curb smuggling and corruption, optimize revenue collections, and digitalize and enhance customs operations. Acting Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz, on instructions from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has ordered the streamlining of customs processes to ease bottlenecks and promote local and international investments and efficient trade facilitation while preventing revenue leakages by tightening border security measures, BOC added. Ruiz had said earlier that he was confident BOC would surpass its full-year target by as much as 30%. BOC has been surpassing its monthly revenue targets this year, even posting its highest monthly collection to date of P84.424 billion in July.