{"id":35522,"date":"2014-12-15T18:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35522"},"modified":"2014-12-15T18:09:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:09:29","slug":"customs-will-no-longer-collect-import-fees-on-balikbayan-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/15\/customs-will-no-longer-collect-import-fees-on-balikbayan-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs will no longer collect import fees on balikbayan boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13654 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau of Customs\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Bureau-of-Customs.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will no longer be collecting the import processing fee of P250 for balikbayan packages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo amount shall be collected as import processing fee on any importation filed through informal entry,\u201d Commissioner John P. Sevilla said in the recent order.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Customs Administrative Order (CAO) No. 08-2014 which will take effect today, Dec 15, the bureau removed the import processing fee for packages sent by sea freight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BOC shall cease to collect the import processing fee,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau also reduced, in the same order, the \u201camount of Documentary Stamp Tax for Informal Entry\u201d from P265 to P15. \u201cAn amount of P15 shall be collected from each importation filed through the informal entry,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest records, about 5.5 million balikbayan boxes are shipped to the country yearly and loads of it enters the country\u2019s port starting from September towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, to allow recipients to track the status of their packages, the bureau has launched an online tracking system.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sevilla, through the tracker, \u201cthe public will not be given the run-around by people responsible for delivering their balikbayan boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will no longer be collecting the import processing fee of P250 for balikbayan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}