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PHILIPPINES Country Report Page 8 of 12 ======================================================================== RECENT ISSUES TACKLED: MIAA ACCREDITATION: There were several meetings held last year with regards to the clarification on who may be granted accreditation and thus allowed access to the premises of the airport. Finally the Manila International Airport Authority issued a Memorandum Circular No. 06 dated April 10, 2007. This Memorandum defines the policy and prescribes the guidelines for the accreditation of individual customs brokers, customs brokerage companies / corporations and cargo/freight forwarders at the Airport. It shall apply to licensed and duly registered Professional Customs Brokers, Customs Brokerage companies engaged in business activities at the Airport Complex. This Memorandum Circular shall take effect fifteen days after its publication in a newspaper for general circulation. Memorandum signed by General Manager Alfonso G. Cusi. NAIA CUSTOMS BONDED WAREHOUSE OPERATORS COUNCIL (NCBWOC) EXPORT CHARGE OF PHP 0.68/KG.: There was a petition from NCBWOC to initially impose export warehousing charges of Php 0.68/kg. Several meetings were held on the petition wherein government bodies and private stakeholders such as the Semiconductors and Electronic Industries in the Philippines Inc. (SEIPI), the Export Development Council, and investors in the Philippine Export Processing Zones participated. Subsequently and with the active participation of then-President Cynthia R. Tsui, the NCBWOC agreed not to implement the export warehousing and other related fees, and instead file a petition with the Bureau of Customs to increase the Import Service Charges.
PHILIPPINES Country Report Page 9 of 12 =========================================================== CASS NEUTRAL AIRWAY BILL (NAWB): Last March 2006, there was a notice from IATA Philippines requesting all IATA CASS agents to use the CASS Neutral Airway Bill (NAWB) for all transactions under CASS with a cost of Php 12.50 per Neutral Airway bill. Opposing the Notice as imposing additional financial burden to the airfreight forwarders, the Aircargo Forwarders of the Philippines Inc. (AFPI) filed a petition with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), requiring airlines to provide FREE NAWB’s to Freight Forwarders with an application for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction compelling airlines not to implement their requirement that only NAWB are acceptable. The Association felt that to make the cargo agents responsible for the cost of Air Waybill forms and the printing of said documents and other ancillary charges is not fair and proper because said document are the airlines’ form and not the document of the cargo agents. Currently the case is still pending with the CAB since the AFPI is still waiting for the formal reply from IATA CASS Phils. and the Board of Airline Representatives. KYOTO CONVENTION: With the participation of AFPI in the Briefing-Workshop sponsored by the Bureau of Customs, the Bureau of Customs was able to finalize the steps to be undertaken in the implementation in the country of the Revised Kyoto Convention, as well as the corrective measures to be made to existing procedures to make them compliant with the provisions of the RKC. The steps, measures, as well as the implementation of the RKC were then submitted to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for finalization and implementation. Upon adoption of state formalities acceding to the Revised Kyoto Convention, the Philippines will form part of the global regime standardizing Customs formalities and processes in tune with the current demands of international trade.
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