Tariffs and Customs Terms P.1.97 Flashcards
Terms and meaning from Dictionary of Tariff and Customs Terms with organization and functions of the various Offices of the Bureau of Customs.
an organization of seafreight forwarders recognized by the Department of Trade and Industry through the Philippine Shipper’s Bureau. It is a member of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Association based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Philippine International Seafreight Forwarders Association, Inc.
a government body that issues clearance for the importation of commodities from Socialist or centrally-planned economies.
Philippine International Trading Corporation
a government body that issues clearance for the importation of radioactive materials.
Philippine Nuclear Research Institute
a government agency that promotes construction expertise of Filipinos abroad, and monitors such construction operations.
Philippine Overseas Construction Board
an agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and security of port facilities. It collects wharfage and storage fees, except for firms registered with the Board of Investments and the Philippine Export Zone Authority.
Philippine Ports Authority
ship classification society in the Philippines.
Philippine Register of Shipping
formerly SHIPPERCON, a government bureau under the Department of Trade of Industry responsible for supervision and accreditation of non-vessel operating common barriers, freight forwarders, break-bulk consolidators.
Philippine Shippers’ Bureau
a systematic listing of traded commodities patterned after the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) of the United Nations. It provides a description code for every commodity, with corresponding tariff heading number. It is also aligned with the Harmonized System of the Philippines.
Philippine Standard Commodity Classification
a government agency that issues clearance for export of sugar and molasses.
Philippine Sugar Commission
bodies of waters within the Philippine territory, such as lakes, stream, brooks, creeks, ponds, swamps, lagoons, gulf, bays and seas, and other bodies of water now existing or which may hereafter exists in the provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays, and the waters around, between and connecting the islands of the archipelago regardless of their breadth and dimensions, the territorial sea, the sea beds, the insular shelves, and all other waters over which the Philippines has sovereignty and jurisdiction, including the 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone and the continental shelf.
Philippine waters
Philippine Sugar Commission
Philsucom
the movement and storage of finished goods from manufacturing plants to warehouses, then to customers; similar to business logistics.
physical distribution
the movement and storage of raw materials from supply sources to manufacturing facility.
physical supply
phytosanitary inspection certificate.
phytosanitary certificate
a certificate issued by the government of an Exporting country to indicate that a shipment has been found free from harmful pests and plant diseases, and comply with the phytosanitary regulations of an importing country.
phytosanitary inspection certificate
an expression in a charter contract that refers to selected regional ports where reasonable despatch is expected.
picked ports
a warehousing method whereby goods are collected from an aisle regardless of the ultimate destination of an item or parcel. The goods are sorted later.
picking by aisle
a warehousing method whereby goods to be delivered to a particular destination are collective successively regardless of the aisle where they lie.
picking by source
an order to pick certain quantities of goods that are out of stock.
pick order
picking of goods from a warehouse and packing them immediately into container
pick pack
collection of cargo from the exporter’s premises, and its delivery. to the premises of the importer.
Pick-up and delivery
carriage of consignments from a pick-up point (say, a warehouse) to an airport of departure.
pick-up service
refers to items, goods, articles, merchandise, commodities.
pieces
American term for fabrics
piece goods
this division is basically charges of entrance and clearance of vessels; boarding of vessels and securing revenue by sealing storage bins and assigning customs guard to such areas; assigning berthing places to vessels.
piers & Inspection Division
