HB 6965

House·20th Congress·Filed Dec 17, 2025

An Act Prescribing Stiffer Penalties for the Illegal Import Trade and Smuggling of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products, and Amending for the Purpose the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as Amended, and Republic Act No. 10863, Otherwise Known as the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act

In plain language

The bill creates tougher criminal penalties for illegal cigarette import, manufacture, sale, distribution, transport, storage, or possession, with harsher punishments for larger quantities and for organized smuggling, and it classifies large‑scale illicit trade as economic sabotage.

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Author · Representative

Nathaniel M. OducadoReceipts →

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