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Assignment name: Customs Risk Management System Project
Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): US $100,490.00
Country: Philippines
Location within the country: Manila
Duration of assignment (months): 3.5 months
Name of client: Economic Modernization Through Efficient Reforms and Governance Enhancement (EMERGE)
Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 3.5 staff-months
Address: Suite 2300, 139 Corporate Center Building, 139 Valero St. Makati City
Approx. value of the services provided by
your firm under the contract(in current US$): US $100,490.00
Start date (month/year): June 2005
Completion date (month/year): October 2005
No. of professional staff-months provided
by associated Consultants: 3.5 staff-months
Name of associated Consultants, if any:
Maria Fe Esperanza Madamba
Atty.alex M. Gaticales
Joel P. Greñas
Januario C. Aliwalas
Edmund D. Guamen
John M. Dowling
Atty.Agaton O. Uvero
Felicitacion Geluz
Myrna C. Rillera
Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved
and functions performed(indicate
most significant profile
such as Project Director/
Coordinator, Team Leader):
Dr.Bienvenido Alano, Team Leader
Narrative description of Project:
The technical assistance activity responds to the request of the Commissioner of Customs Alberto D. Lina to the Bureau enhance
trade facilitation through a risk-based customs administration system.
The assistance activity has the following components:
liquidation and billing, risk management organization, selectivity system, post-entry audit, and the super greenlane facility.
The assistance complements the recent efficiency gains in customs administration of the Bureau in the form of automation and
implementation of transaction valuation aggrement of the WTO.
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:
The objectives of the technical assistance are:
1. To develop and install a risk management system at the BOC that will enable it to facilitate trade for low risk or
compliant importers and subject high-risk importers to closer scrutiny and review of their import transactions;
2. To ensure the collection of the proper legitimate border taxes and duties;
3. To ensure the effective implementation of government regulations that apply on import transactions as provided for in
the Tariff and Customs Code and including those on product and sanitary standards, intellectual property rights enforcement
and other regulations that the BOC is delegated to enforce at the border;
4. To foster ownership of the system from stakeholders in the business community by involving them in the process of
solutions to reduces such costs; and identifying the transaction costs in import assessment and cargo clearance procedures
of the Bureau and developing
5. To improve the capability of the Bureau in undertaking the following of its functions: (a) liquidation and billing;
(b) managing risk; and (c) post entry audit.
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