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Posts tagged with "Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA)"
Draft PH order regulating foreign liners’ fees awaits feedback
Feb. 18 | At the recent stakeholders’ meeting on the draft joint administrative order that will regulate charges of international shipping lines operating in the Philippines. Several Philippine government agencies have presented to stakeholder organizations...
BOC reintroduces marking of imports to indicate origin
Feb. 10 | The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is reintroducing the requirement to mark imported goods and their containers to indicate the country of origin and to comply with provisions of the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA). Customs Administrative Order (CAO)...
BOC-MICP seizes misdeclared Bentley, truck worth P12.1M
Feb. 4 | Manila International Container Port district collector Atty Erastus Sandino Austria (left) and Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero (right) inspect the misdeclared Bentley GT. Along with a Hino truck, the Bentley was misdclared as used forklift,...
PH agencies to regulate fees of foreign shipping lines, depots, truckers
Feb. 1 | Image courtesy of khunaspix at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Fees charged by international shipping lines, container depot operators, and truckers operating in the Philippines will soon be regulated by government agencies, the move designed to lower high shipping...
Inter-agency order to address high shipping costs, port congestion in PH
Jan. 31 | Several Philippine government agencies are targeting to issue a joint administrative order (JAO) on February 14 that would contain measures aimed at addressing high international shipping costs, port congestion, and the empty container issue. The agencies...
PH AEO program for roll out in first half
Jan. 29 | Stakeholders that apply and qualify for the Authorized Economic Operator program are allowed to clear their goods with minimum or zero customs border intervention. Image courtesy of khunaspix at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will...
BOC to commence audit of firms with release of post-clearance audit order
Jan. 17 | Philippine companies will now have to be ready for a potential customs audit with the signing of a Bureau of Customs (BOC) order finally operationalizing the agency’s post-clearance audit function. Customs Administrative Order (CAO) 01-2019, signed...
Draft PH order on entry process for imports set for public hearing
Dec. 5 | The Philippine Department of Finance (DOF) and Bureau of Customs (BOC) have released the draft customs administrative order (CAO) implementing provisions of the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) pertaining to the process for entry lodgement...
Customs Modernization and Tariff Act Series 2: Background and History of CMTA
Nov. 28 | This is the second in a series of articles on the Philippine Customs Modernization and and Tariff Act. For Series 1, click here. Preliminary Work. Sometime in 2007, the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BoC) announced that the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC)...
