Starting June 17, all commercial export shipments that go through major airports in the Philippines will have to be lodged electronically with the Bureau of Customs using the electronic-to-mobile (e2m) Automated Export Declaration System (AEDS).
This comes after Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina on June 2 signed Customs Memorandum Circular (CMC) No. 79-2016. The order mandates all air exports transacted and loaded at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Clark International Airport (formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport), Mactan-Cebu International Airport, and Davao International Airport to be lodged in the AEDS.
Lina said the issuance is in connection with three memos that provide guidelines on the electronic lodgment of export declarations. One is the Customs Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 49-2010 (Electronic Lodgement of Export Declarations through Accredited Value-added Service Providers [VASPs] at the One Stop Export Documentation Center). The others are CMO 54-2010 (Electronic Lodgement of Export Declaration through Accredited VASPs) and the supplementary CMO 7-2012.
The newly signed CMC 79-2016 defines commercial shipments as trade commodities or items with commercial value or quantity that are for sale or barter under consignment basis. It adds that these shipments are regular exports in which the exporter and importer of goods are business entities.
AEDS is BOC’s system module for receiving and processing of the export declaration single administrative document.
All shipments involving personal effects are exempt from CMC 79-2016 and will continue to be processed manually.
As for shipments from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority and the Freeport Zones—Clark Development Council, Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan, and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority)—these will be covered by a separate CMO.
Earlier, BOC also issued CMO 14-2016 which provides the guidelines for the initial implementation of the electronic filing of informal entries using the single administrative document (SAD) form.
READ: BOC to require e-filing of informal entries for non-commercial airfreight
The order, which will take effect on June 16, aims to effect a smooth transition to e-filing coursed through accredited VASPs from the current procedure of manual filing. – Roumina Pablo
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