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 ...

Mitch Villaseñor picks up a balikbayan box. Boxes will then be loaded onto a container, driven to California, and shipped to the Philippines. Credit: Pat Nabong As a kid living in Laguna, a province ...

SEATTLE, Wa.— Bayani Store, Inc. (“BayaniStore.com”) announces the launch of its new online store BayaniStore.com which shows all overseas Filipinos (more than 11 million worldwide) that technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. More than 100,000 balikbayan boxes that had been in storage for years at the Port of Manila were finally being ...

MANILA, Philippines — On average, hundreds of thousands of “balikbayan boxes” enter the Philippines every year, carrying not just gifts, but the love and sacrifice from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs ...

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’ ...

The senator also asks Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina to apologize to OFWs over the bureau's 'significant lapses' on the issue of balikbayan boxes MANILA, Philippines – Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” ...

'The carefully curated contents of the balikbayan box reinforce the migrant mother’s position as key decision-maker of the home' When her daughter first got her menstrual period, Hermie, an OFW in ...