As part of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) consistent efforts to enhance trade facilitation and promote transparency, the Bureau of Customs, through the Account Management Office (AMO), reported on the statistics concerning accreditation for the first quarter of 2022.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group (AOCG), the Auction and Cargo Disposal Division (ACDD) and the ACDD units of all BOC Collection Districts nationwide, disposed a total of 304 overstaying containers through public auction, condemnation, and donation for the 1st quarter of 2022.
As part of its commitment to prevent the entry of illegal goods into the country, the Bureau of Customs Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) condemned various regulated goods without health and safety clearances seized by the Port, which includes food items, unlabeled medicines, vape juice and linhua qingwen medicines among others. The said regulated goods were seized on various occassions as part of BOC-NAIA’s border security and anti-smuggling campaign.
The World Customs Organization (WCO), through Mr. Jonathan Fellows, Senior Technical Officer, WCO Capacity Building Directorate, conducted the Assessment of the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) Implementation Status of the World Trade Organization-Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) on 28-29 March 2022, in Manila.
In its bid to collect additional lawful revenues through post clearance audit, the Bureau of Customs through the Post Clearance Audit Group (PCAG) reports its 1st quarter accomplishment on additional revenue collections for the period January to March 2022.
To fulfill one of the requirements of the Performance Governance System (PGS) Framework, which is Governance Sharing, the Bureau of Customs – Port of Surigao conferred with the Philippine National Police – Province of Surigao del Norte on March 29, 2022, at the Bureau of Customs office, Surigao City.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Management Information Systems and Technology Group (MISTG) launches the Liquidation and Billing System (LBS) and is preparing for its implementation in all ports nationwide on 13 April 2022.
Aligned with the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) mandate to strengthen border security measures and trade facilitation, the X-ray Inspection Project (XIP) successfully scanned a total of 209,030 containers from January to March 2022, improving its scanning performance efficiency by 14% as compared to the same timeline in 2021.
As part of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) commitment to strengthen border security, the Intelligence Group (IG) and Enforcement Group (EG) reported their anti-smuggling efforts for the first quarter of 2022.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) reiterated that only meat and food products with import clearances issued by the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Health (DOH) will be released from the BOC ports.
