Thursday, January 3, 2008

[LinP3] Re: Philippine Customs Charges

Hey Benny,

That's interesting stuff. I hope my wife and i don't run into any
major "surprises" when we relocate to PI in 2009/2010. I think that
this thread is just the starting point for me to start researching
costs of shipping housewhole goods from CA to PI. The car stays
here... that I promise. We want to bring mostly all our furniture
and some appliances and electronics, not to mention clothes and such.
Has anyone on this Forum done such a thing before and are big$$
expected? Anyway, I'll start with the customs link and then explore
ours over here, etc...

Cheers.

Mark.

--- In LivingInThePhilippines3@yahoogroups.com, "Benny Harper"
...> wrote:
>
> 'FYI: I posted the following on 9 Dec. 06 (I also posted this
> earlier); in response to a 'Poster's' question about how much
> 'customs' charges would be made on a particular item(s).'
>
> You're welcome to search for the information:
> http://www.customs.gov.ph/boc_index.jsp
> The above URL is the site for the Philippine Bureau Of Customs.
>
> I previously searched for a listing such as they have for the US;
> where they list items (such as china, pearl jewelry, etc.) and give
> the percentage of customs that will be charged.
>
> I was never able to find that type information; on several
Philippine
> sites I searched. I did find that Philippines customs seem to be
> ruled by an ASEAN Agreement that seems to boil down to the fact that
> what you pay/paid for an item has nothing to do with what 'Customs'
> charges will be assessed. It even stated that they could use the
local
> price as being the 'cost' that they will use to compute the customs
> charges.
>
> If I didn't mess up my computations; it appears that you are paying
> 20% customs fee. - Be happy it isn't a car you shipped to here;
since
> I understand (from member's posts) that they usually pay 100%. :-)
>
> BTW: I'll remake the same request I made in my previous response. IF
> anyone can find such a listing I would certainly appreciate knowing
> it's URL/Site.
>
> 'BTW: Until now (3 Jan. 08); no one has ever been able to show me
such
> a list; as they have in the U.S.' :-)
>
> Benny
>

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