MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of “balikbayan boxes” enter the Philippines every year, carrying not ...

Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sending home “balikbayan” boxes to their loved ones. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Finance have signed the implementing rules and ...

Piles of stuffed animals, clothes, hangers, towels, decorations — even bird feeders — were neatly gathered in Nita Matheson’s Springfield, Virginia, house last Wednesday. In her garage, flattened ...

MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of balikbayan boxes enter the Philippines each year, carrying not ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has eased the rules for Filipinos availing of duty- and tax-free privileges for consolidated balikbayan boxes valued up to P150,000. Customs ...

MANILA, Philippines - Any tax on balikbayan boxes would require congressional approval, a lawmaker reminded Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina yesterday. “All appropriation, revenue or tariff bills ...

More than 100,000 balikbayan boxes that had been in storage for years at the Port of Manila were finally being distributed to the families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), just days before ...

Filipinos urged to avoid sending care packages through ‘fly by night’ cargo companies Dubai: A Filipino official at the Philippine consulate has warned Filipinos from transacting with ‘fly by night’ ...