PASAY CITY -- The Bureau of Customs (BOC) successfully received concurrence from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the completion of the bidding process for the ASEAN Customs Declaration Document (ACDD) Management System. The procurement of the System for BOC formally started in May 2021 based on the ACDD Business Processing Analysis (BPA) Report developed by the BOC ACDD Project Team.

This milestone will help link the Philippines to electronically exchange ACDD information on the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) regional trade facilitation platform. It will broaden economic integration and meet the Philippines’ ASEAN commitment in digitizing trade processes and maximize the potential of intra-ASEAN trade.

USAID, through the ASEAN Policy Implementation (API) Project, is also assisting the BOC to develop a National Master Data Plan for Information Sharing and Interoperability using the Technical Reference Model approach.

During the 10th ACDD Project team Meeting, Mr. Dennis C. Pantastico, ASW Regional Advisor explained the USAID Concept Paper that will be used in developing the technical reference guidelines. It encapsulates the overall operational environment of the Single Window enabling platform for operational transactions, data extraction for risk profiling, business and informational rules, inter-agency information exchange, and the whole of government approach driven by business rules.  

Since December 2020, BOC has worked closely with the USAID API team under the guidance of Ms. Elaine Tan, USAID API Chief of Party and Deputy Commissioner Allan C. Geronimo, BOC-MISTG in identifying infrastructure requirements, determining information security issues, and establish scope, functionality, design and operation environment of ACDD management software. (BOC)