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The Bureau of Customs transferred its Accounts Management Office from the Intelligence Group to the Post-Clearance Audit Group
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The director of PCAG’s Trade Information and Risk Analysis Office will have direct supervision and control of the AMO
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Under CMO No. 10-2026, the TIRAO director and the AMO chief were directed to undertake measures to prevent disruption of operations of the latter “with the least effect on service to the public as a result of the transfer”
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The conduct of risk-based evaluation and account management activities of the AMO should be aligned with established trade information, risk assessment, and profiting parameters of the PCAG to ensure seamless processing and approval of registration, renewal, suspension, cancellation, and related account actions
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has transferred the Accounts Management Office (AMO) from the Intelligence Group (IG) to the Post-Clearance Audit Group (PCAG).
To “ensure that the AMO effectively performs its duties and functions,” the director of PCAG’s Trade Information and Risk Analysis Office (TIRAO) will have direct supervision and control of the AMO, according to Customs Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 10-2026.
AMO is the unit under BOC that processes and approves applications for registration of importers and customs brokers. Its direct supervision and control had been moved to different BOC groups and offices several times previously, until it was returned to the IG in 2017.
TIRAO, meanwhile, is one of the two operating units of PCAG whose functions include, among others, the review of available trade data to determine compliance markers of industry and set benchmarks for the purpose of developing an audit program, helped develop the Computer-Aided Risk Management System that determines import transactions that pose revenue-related red flags, recommends the potential priority audit candidates.
Under CMO No. 10-2026, the TIRAO director and the AMO chief were directed to undertake measures to prevent disruption of operations of the latter “with the least effect on service to the public as a result of the transfer.”
Further, the conduct of risk-based evaluation and account management activities of the AMO should be aligned with established trade information, risk assessment, and profiting parameters of the PCAG to ensure seamless processing and approval of registration, renewal, suspension, cancellation, and related account actions.
Any movement of personnel from the AMO to their respective mother units and vice versa should be governed by rules under Customs Administrative Order No. 06-2022 (Assignments, Reassignments, and Designations).— Roumina Pablo
