Philippines
Tax reform bill must be approved in full: DOF
MANILA: Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III reiterated Wednesday that the Duterte administration's tax reform program must be approved in full...
Philippines BoC seizes onions worth P2.4m from China
MANILA: Officials of the Bureau of Customs (BoC)– Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) has foiled an attempt by unscrupulous importers...
Philippines Supreme Court junks BOC bid to collect P1 B from Shell
MANILA: The Supreme Court (SC) has rejected with finality the bid of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to collect almost...
Philippines put no blanket ban on Brazilian meat imports
MANILA: The Philippines is not contemplating a blanket ban on meat importations from Brazil despite the salmonella outbreak in that...
A $500 million Philippine tax deal may be hard to resist
MANILA: A $500 million tax settlement offer by a tobacco maker may be difficult for the Philippine government to refuse...
Philippines sets $451.08/tonne price ceiling for rice imports
MANILA: The Philippines' state grains agency said on Thursday it set a price ceiling of $451.08 a tonne for the...
Philippines posts record trade deficit in May; imports surge
MANILA: The Philippines posted its biggest trade deficit since data became available, fuelled by a rapidly expanding economy. The currency...
Philippines complains again to WTO over Thai cigarette trade
MANILA: The Philippines has made a new complaint to the World Trade Organization in a nine-year-old dispute over Thailand's treatment...
Philippines’ organic rice exports to US, UAE rise
MANILA: The Philippines has sent another 13.5 million metric tons of organic rice to the United States and the United...
Philippines’ president wants to see govt spending up by 12.4%
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte plans to hike state spending 12.4 percent next year to a record 3.77 trillion pesos...
Philippines economy to grow 6.8% this year: World Bank
MANILA: The Philippine economy is expected to expand by 6.8 percent this year, the World Bank said Saturday. The organization...
Philippines’ tax reform program will not tax remittances from abroad
MANILA: The Department of Finance clarified on Wednesday that the money being sent home by Filipinos abroad will not be...
Philippinese, Chinese customs in talks to enforce anti-smuggling agreement
MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BoC) has started talks with its Chinese counterparts to enforce an agreement to streamline the...
Philippines customs raid fake goods warehouse in Bulacan
MANILA: Operatives of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) confiscated billions of pesos worth of fake products during a raid at...
Philippines’ May tax collections fall short of target
MANILA: The collections of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) fell below target in May, reaching only P157.36 billion or...
Indonesia seizes pangolins, scales worth $190,000
MEDAN: Indonesian authorities have seized hundreds of critically endangered pangolins and scales in a haul worth $190,000 after uncovering a...
Philippines’ Customs warned on surge in car smuggling
MANILA: Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate committee on economic affairs, has warned the Bureau of Customs to prevent the...
Philippines’ GDP nearing 7% in Q2 – NEDA
MANILA: The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) is upbeat that the country’s economy would grow at a much faster...
Philippines Customs exceeds collection target in May
MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC) collected P39.34 billion in May, exceeding the P38.28-billion target for the month, the Department...
Philippine’s exports jump 12% in April to USD4.8b
MANILA: Philippine merchandise export revenues in April 2017 increased 12.1 percent year on year to USD4.8 billion from USD4.28 billion....
