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PortCalls, in partnership with the Bureau of Customs, is holding a hybrid seminar on August 28 to provide importers, exporters, customs brokers, logistics services providers, and other port stakeholders updates on the changes in the customs bureau’s accreditation process
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BOC Accounts Management Office executive officer and Post Clearance Group Compliance Assessment Office-Audit Division 2 chief Atty. Melvin Joseph Banzon will present changes in AMO’s procedures
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Atty Chris Dy Buco, head of AMO, will also be in attendance
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The seminar will be held at Citadines Bay City Manila and via Zoom from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
PortCalls, in partnership with the Bureau of Customs (BOC), is holding a hybrid seminar on August 28 to provide importers, exporters, customs brokers, logistics services providers, and other port stakeholders updates on the changes in the customs bureau’s accreditation process.
To be held at Citadines Bay City Manila and via Zoom from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., the seminar on New Rules Under AMO (Accounts Management Office), will be headlined by Atty. Melvin Joseph Banzon, executive officer and Post Clearance Group (PCAG) Compliance Assessment Office-Audit Division 2 chief.
Atty Chris Dy Buco, head of AMO, will also be in attendance.
Banzon will present changes in AMO procedures for accreditation since the office’s temporary transfer to PCAG last June.
In a presentation during BOC’s 6th Customs Industry Consultative and Advisory Council (CICAC) general assembly and 12th Central CICAC meeting on August 6, Banzon said AMO has removed redundant steps such as pre-checking to streamline its process flow for evaluating and approving new and renewal applications. Processing time is now between three to seven days from the previous seven days.
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To fast track importers’ application for renewal of accreditation, AMO now allows importers to just submit four essential requirements–application form, Certificate of No Change in Business Information or Certificate of Change in Business Information if there is a change, processing fee receipt, and Client Profile Registration System and updated notification of “stored” status–as well as an affidavit of undertaking that they will submit within 30 days the five other requirements for renewal of accreditation. Banzon said this will grant importers provisional accreditation, subject to the submission of the five other follow-up requirements. If the five other requirements are not submitted within 30 days as stated in the affidavit of undertaking, accreditation will be suspended.
AMO also established a dedicated evaluation lane for the top 1,000 importers and members of the Super Green Lane and Authorized Economic Operator Program. It also created a direct line and appointed focal persons for the collection districts of Port of Manila and Manila International Container Port for accreditation matters.
AMO also adopted an internal digital evaluation and approval process and intends to eventually roll out a digital system that will allow importers and customs brokers to fill out their application online and just upload the required documents.
Aside from these, AMO has been implementing the extension in the validity of importers’ accreditation and customs brokers’ registration, and the policy changes under Customs Administrative Order (CAO) No. 01-2026, which amends certain provisions of CAO No. 01-2022, which provides BOC’s rules on accreditation of importers.
The duties and responsibilities of accredited importers and customs brokers are now printed at the back of the Certificate of Registration and Certificate of Accreditation.
International trade advocate and former BOC district collector Antonio Meliton Pascual will be joining to moderate the session.
The seminar qualifies under the Department of Trade and Industry’s training requirement for the accreditation of sea freight forwarders.
Registration is still open via https://tinyurl.com/AMO0828.
