NEW GUIDELINES ISSUED FOR CEMENT IMPORT CERTIFICATION
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon M. Lopez issued Department Administrative Order (DAO) No. 1702 Series of 2017 covering the
new guidelines for the mandatory certification of cement imports to ensure safety standards.
An update from a previous order on the issuance of the import commodity clearance (ICC) for imported cement, the new DAO details revised guidelines for Portland Cement and Blended Hydraulic Cement with Pozzolan covered by PNS 07:2005 and PNS 63:2006, respectively. “The DTI issued a revision of this order to help safeguard the safety of consumers by requiring the strict conduct of standards compliance tests on cement imports,†Lopez said.
“This new DAO will also help ensure that imports into our country are held to the highest standards of product safety,†he added. The DAO requires the application of the Philippine Standards (PS) licenses on foreign producers of cement imports and ICC on cement imports, as well as the setting of a required minimum paid capitalization of Php 20 million for all the cement importers to weed out fly by night importers. Importers also need to post surety bond of ten percent of the declared value of the imported cement in Philippine peso.
"All these efforts are intended to ensure the safety and protection of Filipino consumers, without adding unnecessary import procedures."
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