The Bureau of Customs has redistributed the readjusted goal of the bureau among its 17 district ports nationwide.

According to Commissioner Napoleon Morales, the Department of Finance reduced the revenue target from P317 billion to P277 billion due to the economic downturn and the subsequent decrease in the volume of imports.

Under the new target, the Manila International Container Port was given the biggest goal of P67.639 billion. This accounts for 24.40 percent of the P277 billion target.

The Port of Manila was apportioned the second largest aim with P60.500 billion (21.82%).

 Oil port Batangas will be tasked to collect P48.256 billion (17.41%) while the Office of the Commissioner was also given a collection goal for tax expenditure funds worth P32.217 billion (11.62 %). The newly created Port of Limay, which is also an oil port, was assigned  a P29.375 (10.60%) target.

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport was given P17.950 billion (6.4%) while the Port of Cebu was given a P5.781 billion goal (2.09%).

Cagayan de Oro, Subic, San Fernando and Davao have been tasked to collect P4.464 billion, P4.337 billion, P2.900 billion and P2.125 billion, respectively.

Meanwhile, Clark was assigned P796 million; Iloilo – P311 million; Tacloban – P280 million; Aparri – P187 million; Legaspi – P60 million; Zamboanga – P40 million; and Surigao – P18 million. Last year, the Customs surpassed its collection target of P254.476 billion by P4.501 billion.