Question & AnswerQ&A (BC CUSTOMS MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 62-93)
The purpose of BC Customs Memorandum Order No. 62-93 is to ensure the proper exportation of imported cigarettes temporarily entered into the country for transshipment to foreign ports by prescribing specific measures to supplement existing laws on the subject.
The application must be accompanied by a listing of the quantity and kind of cigarettes in each inbound container.
Yes, the application may be provisionally approved on the condition that a devanning report of each inbound container, containing the same information, is presented.
The approving authority must alert the Bureau's law enforcement agencies to allow monitoring and surveillance operations without causing undue delay in processing the application.
The shipping agent must present the ship's sailing plan for reference purposes.
Within forty-eight (48) hours after the vessel’s departure.
They must submit a certification from the consignee that the shipment was received, together with a certified true copy of the inward foreign manifest, properly stamped by the port authorities of the destination.
They may stay in the port for a period not exceeding five (5) days.
A supervision fee of 800 pesos per container regardless of size or 10 pesos per revenue ton of breakbulk cargo per day of extended stay, payable by the shipping company or agent to the District Collector of Customs.
The Deputy Collector for Operations is responsible for instituting the accounting system and reporting unaccounted or suspicious shipments to the Commissioner of Customs.
Their participation is enlisted in monitoring to prevent diversion and fraud on government revenues related to the transshipment of imported cigarettes.
The Collector must designate an action officer with overall responsibility for accomplishing the objectives of the order.
The order took effect immediately upon adoption on November 15, 1993.