Government

Of late, Mayor Rody Duterte, asked Congress to be allowed to right-size the bureaucracy. Some, he said, have overlapping functions, others have redundant justifications, and, still, many others are simply top heavy for their mandates. Indeed, many agencies are inappropriately …

Accreditation is the first issue one has to get acquainted with when planning to deal with the customs bureau. Unless your firm is accredited, your importation documents will not be processed. You have to get accreditation, otherwise your importation will …

Imposition of multimillion-peso deposit ANOTHER serious problem port stakeholders encounter is the highly questionable imposition by international shipping lines of multimillion-peso deposits on containers and the very slow processes of getting a refund for such deposits. With regard to this …

Lack of regulatory power to oversee foreign shipping lines WITH the advent of the world trade, foreign commercial vessels bringing in and taking out cargoes worth billions of pesos for the market are not paying enough taxes and have subjected …

Those thinking of pulling another fast one on the Bureau of Customs and avoiding payment of the proper duties and taxes on shipments should seriously reconsider their dark schemes. Revived cooperation between the House of Representatives Committee on Ways and …

(BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION) – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II assured employees of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) that a new Immigration Law will be passed that will upgrade their salaries and address their present economic plight. “We are earnestly working …

The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) continues to benefit from the country’s sound economic condition posting another strong financial performance as of end July. The stronger than expected financial performance was complemented by the drop in its overall expenses and the …

In a bid to alleviate traffic congestion in Metro Manila, the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), met yesterday afternoon to discuss measures to enhance inter-agency coordination, especially …

More foreign tourists have arrived in the Philippines this year, staying for more days and spending more money, as indicated by the data collected by the country’s Department of Tourism (DOT) for the month of January. DOT Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo …

Abandoned balikbayan boxes by US-based freight forwarder, RDR Forwarding, have been released by local forwarder Isidro Faderguya to Online Pinoy Padala (OPP), the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported on Thursday, 23 February. Customs Commissioner Nicanor E. Faeldon clarified that said …