LOS ANGELES – A group of balikbayan box shippers has sought a dialog with Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Alberto Lina to clarify processes and discuss potential issues, such as pilferage, that ...

TWENTY-ONE shipping containers of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be processed this week ...

“BALIKBAYAN” boxes are again being used to smuggle contraband items into the country. This was disclosed on Thursday by Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, who said the agency was able to intercept ...

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 — The Bureau of Customs has confiscated 198.5 kilos of dried marijuana in balikbayan boxes valued at P238.2 million smugled from Thailand, a BOC official said yesterday. In a ...

The Bureau of Customs intercepts high-caliber firearms smuggled into the country from the US through a balikbayan box MANILA, Philippines – Just months after the government made balikbayan boxes duty ...

[FILE] On March 1, 2024, the Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the Manila International Container Port (MICP), and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intercepted a shipment from Thailand ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BoC) has started delivering "balikbayan" boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their families in the Philippines. Customs Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno said on ...

I have never personally received a balikbayan box from abroad addressed to me, nor have I sent one home from abroad to myself (to, say, avoid airline excess baggage fees). But I have surely received ...

Balikbayan boxes sent by qualified Filipinos abroad will be duty- and tax-free starting Christmas Day, December 25 MANILA, Philippines – Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Starting ...

CEBU, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs has reiterated that balikbayan boxes are exempted from duties and taxes provided they do not exceed P150,000 in a year and are for personal use only. The ...