PH brokers eye meeting with Customs chief over threat of disaccreditation
Customs brokers will seek an audience with Philippine Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon regarding the latter’s threat to cancel accreditation of brokers and importers starting…
Draft order on PH Customs post-clearance audit out
The preliminary version of the customs administrative order (CAO) enabling the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) to perform post-clearance audit as stipulated under the…
WCO chief: BOC needs to combine clear vision with IT to raise efficiency
The World Customs Organization (WCO) underscores the need for the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) to adopt a strategic vision, supported by the use…
Complicated PH clearance processes to warrant use of customs brokers by multinationals
Multinational companies will likely continue to engage the services of customs brokers even if these become optional two years after implementation of the Customs…
BOC chief assumes sole control over suspension, cancellation of PH importer, broker accreditation
The customs commissioner, or his designated representatives, is now the only official at the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) with the authority to suspend…
BIR cuts dox requirements, processing time for accreditation of importers, brokers
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has streamlined the application process for Philippine importers and customs brokers seeking government accreditation by reducing the processing…
Today’s business operates in a global environment. To keep pace, companies wherever located or whatever their primary market base, have to consider the rest…
BOC seminar to teach cargo clearance without engaging customs brokers
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will hold a whole-day seminar on August 19 on basic customs procedures, rules, and regulations to help importers and exporters…
Use of customs broker services should be optional—WCO
The World Customs Organization (WCO) said customs brokers’ services should be made optional in keeping with provisions of the Revised Kyoto Convention, although in…
Incoming PH Customs chief bares top priorities, including re-imposition of pre-shipment inspection on containers
Incoming Philippine Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon has identified four of his top priorities once he assumes office at the Bureau of Customs (BOC), described…
PH customs brokers propose ways to improve TABS efficiency, transparency
Some Philippine port stakeholders have put forward measures to address concerns identified during the initial days of strict implementation of the Terminal Appointment Booking…
Business as usual at Manila ports despite TABS protest
Manila terminal operators said their operations were not affected by the protest staged by some stakeholders against the Terminal Appointment Booking System (TABS). Around…
TABS protesters bent on work holiday starting March 7
A number of Manila port stakeholders that have banded together against the implementation of the Terminal Appointment Booking System (TABS) said they will push…
PCCI, PhilExport join growing protest against online container booking system
Opposition to the Terminal Appointment Booking System (TABS) is mounting with a coalition of customs brokers threatening to stage a one-week protest action to…
PH customs brokers seek stop to online booking system
The Philippine Society of Filipino Customs Brokers, Inc. (PSFCBI) is requesting government to discontinue the Terminal Appointment Booking System (TABS) program, claiming it has…
PH customs brokers want TABS scrapped for impeding cargo flow
The Professional Customs Brokers Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PCBAPI) is requesting government to stop implementing the Terminal Appointment Booking System (TABS), citing its…
