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                    [Title] => Dellosa is right to push new Customs formula
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Law and numbers operate on common sense. They must be used to benefit society.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-04-09 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134276
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                    [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
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                    [Title] => BIR issues new guidelines on release of imported goods
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue has issued new guidelines and procedures for the release of goods imported into the country’s ports to ensure proper payment of taxes and duties by companies.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-03-31 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña
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                    [Title] => Importers face strict accreditation process
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The Aquino administration has formally transferred the Bureau of Customs’ function of accrediting importers to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) as part of wide-ranging reforms aimed at rooting out corruption and cleansing the BOC of well-entrenched smugglers and their protectors.

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                    [Title] => Customs set new rules on accrediting importers
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CEBU, Philippines – Bureau of Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales has issued a memorandum revising the rules and regulations that cover the accreditation of importers, which amended Customs Memorandum Order no. 15-2009 dated April 13, 2009.
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                    [Title] => BFAD  nagbabala laban sa mga imported products na may formaldehyde
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                    [Title] => Customs foils attempt to smuggle steel bars
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The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said yesterday it has foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of steel bars at the Port of Manila that would have cost the government some P7 million in unpaid taxes.


Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales said he ordered the seizure of some 3,000 metric tons of reinforced steel bars after the shipment was found to be misdeclared and grossly undervalued by its importer.


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                    [Title] => NFA requires clearance in rice stocks shipment
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority now requires a clearance to transport rice and its by-products, via water transportation.


This new requirement is intended to monitor the position and movement of food stocks and forestall illegal trade, said the NFA in its recent circular. 


Shippers who fail to comply with this requirement will face fine and imprisonment, and the seizure of their stocks, the NFA said.


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                    [Title] => Fight vs petrochem smugglers launched
                    [Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Association of Petrochemical Manufacturers of the Philippines (APMP) have agreed on a number of measures to curb technical smuggling of certain petrochemical products.


This was announced yesterday by Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II following a meeting with members of the APMP.


The government and the APMP will also initiate the process for the institution of pre-shipment inspection for importations of particular petrochem tariff lines with rates ranging from zero to five percent.


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                    [Title] => SGS: Nothing toxic in Japan shipment
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A top official of Societé Generale de Surveillance (SGS), a
Customs inspection firm, insisted yesterday that a controversial shipment found
containing trash from Japan did not have any toxic substance when the company
inspected it before leaving for Manila.

In his statement during a Senate hearing on the alleged illegal shipment, David
Robinson, SGS chief executive officer, said SGS-Japan conducted an exhaustive
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                    [Title] => Customs foils attempt to smuggle steel bars
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The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said yesterday it has foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of steel bars at the Port of Manila that would have cost the government some P7 million in unpaid taxes.


Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales said he ordered the seizure of some 3,000 metric tons of reinforced steel bars after the shipment was found to be misdeclared and grossly undervalued by its importer.


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Shippers who fail to comply with this requirement will face fine and imprisonment, and the seizure of their stocks, the NFA said.


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This was announced yesterday by Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II following a meeting with members of the APMP.


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containing trash from Japan did not have any toxic substance when the company
inspected it before leaving for Manila.

In his statement during a Senate hearing on the alleged illegal shipment, David
Robinson, SGS chief executive officer, said SGS-Japan conducted an exhaustive
examination of the shipment and even came up with written reports and
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