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Consequently, the Insular Collector of Customs was changed to Collector of Customs for the Port of Manila. The reorganization took effect on July 1, 1947. In 1957, Congress enacted the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines known as Republic Act No. 1937, otherwise known as the “Tariff Law of the Republic of the Philippines”.
On February 12, 1998, its area of operation was expanded and its name accordingly changed to Trade and Investment Development Corporation of the Philippines by Republic Act No. 8494. It was re-titled again through an Executive Order 85 on March 18, 2002, to Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PhilEXIM).
On November 20, 1972, the Bataan Export Processing Zone (BEPZ) (later Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) since October 23, 2009, with the name was concurrently used with the BEPZ/Bataan Economic Zone (BEZ) names as the zone's secondary name when Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) partially operated and managed the zone along with PEZA ...
The U.S. commerce secretary has committed to address concerns by the Philippines after American authorities held up shipments of garments on suspicion that cotton was produced by forced labor in ...
[4] [5] [6] Eventually, it became common to package gifts, often household goods and practical items, in a box while still abroad. These boxes would then be shipped to the Philippines. [3] The balikbayan box became popular in the 1980s United States due to the country’s high influx of overseas Filipino workers.
[citation needed] According to Philippine Government data, 16% of the Philippines' imports in 2006 came from the U.S., and about 18% of its exports were bound for America. [citation needed] The Philippines ranks as the 26th-largest export market and the 30th-largest supplier of the United States.
The Philippines' farm ministry said on Wednesday it has banned poultry imports from California and Ohio in the United States because of several outbreaks there of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Batangas and Subic ports served as extensions of the Port of Manila in order to ease congestion, President Benigno S.C. Aquino III has ordered Through Executive Order (EO) No. 172 signed Sep 13, Mr. Aquino declared the two ports as extensions of Manila International Container Terminal and South Harbor, citing the need "to immediately and ...