Bureau of Import Services
The BIS facilitates imports, administers import regulation on selected items, and monitors the importation of liberalized and sensitive items. It initiates and conducts preliminary investigations on dumping, countervailing, and safeguard protests.
BIS Mandate
- Monitor import level and prices, particularly of liberalized items.
- Analyze and forecast import levels.
- Analyze and publish import return statistics.
- Perform annual review of the substantive components of the Philippine Tariff System and submit recommendations thereon.
Programs and Services
- Initiate and conduct preliminary determination of trade remedy measures.
- Assist Philippine exporters confronted by trade remedy actions filed by their competitors in the international market.
- Formulate/promulgate guidelines, rules, and regulations for the efficient and effective implementation of the different laws relative to the importation of used motor vehicles.