If we abolish customs in PH

"Why do we have that bureau of customs anyway?"I asked in an aggressive tone. "It's to protect the products of our countrymen. We don't want our people to buy only imported goods. We need to encourage them in buying our own products," answered my good friend. We were in a business meeting and discussing about what new business to start.

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I think it's a very ridiculous reason. If our products are not sold, it's not the fault of the consumers. Simply, our products don't really add value to our consumers. Then why should we buy them? Just to have better tax collections?

If we abolish customs in PH there can be advantages. We can import products with less maintenance and will have better profits and better tax collections. There may be some sector that would be negatively affected and would need to be taken into consideration as well.

The good news is some people in the government are now thinking out of the box. And of course there are still people who react immediately even if it's not implemented. It's also normal as well since we are only humans and most people are programmed that way. It's also good to know that a few of th

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em also are open to the idea. With what happened, I remember one of our practices in a business community before about listing ridiculous ideas just to raise money. It really helps a lot to just to list down everything first whatever comes to mind no matter how stupid ideas are.

Ultimately, having the customs or not only have little effect. It's our practices that would determine the improvement. Also, the wisdom behind this option is yet to be established. Thus, we can never really say if it will work or not unless we try.