Delegates from the United States Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and United States Agency for International Development’s ASEAN Policy Implementation (USAID API) Project and Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz agreed to broaden economic integration and meet the Philippines’ commitment to digitizing trade processes and optimizing intra-ASEAN trade potential. The Bureau of Customs implements trade facilitation initiatives under the technical assistance provided by the USAID API Project, whose officials recently paid a courtesy call to Ruiz. /* ...

A total of 1,996 unpaid and abandoned balikbayan boxes have been distributed by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to their intended recipients since July this year, 1,667 of which were delivered while 329 boxes were picked up by consignees at designated warehouses. The delivered packages included 1,450 boxes consigned to CMG International Movers and Cargo Services. The 30 remaining boxes remain undelivered due to incomplete information, no confirmation or no response was received from recipients/senders. The BOC also processed 1,154 balikbayan boxes consigned to Island Kabayan Express, 329 of which...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) recently jointly convened the National Single Window (NSW) Summit 2022 at the F1 Hotel, Bonifacio Global City. With the theme “Towards the Next Generation of the Philippine National Single Window”, the NSW Summit 2022 supports the call of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., during his first State of the Nation Address, in promoting streamlined processes at BOC through information and communications technology solutions.  This event aims to further expedite the advancement of the...

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