BOC MEMORANDUM, May 21, 1999

[ BOC MEMORANDUM, May 21, 1999 ]

PUBLICATION OF VALUES

Pursuant to the pertinent provisions of CAO 2-96, the Valuation and Classification Division, Import Assessment Service, this Bureau, is hereby directed to update the publication of values as presently recorded in various Revision Orders within one (1) month from the issuance of this memorandum.

In the meantime, the effectivity of the Memorandum ** of the Commissioner of Customs dated November 10, 1998 regarding the application of published values, copy of which is herein attached, is suspended within the one-month period that subject Revision Orders are being updated or until such time that the New Revision Orders are issued.

The suspension however, would not apply to commodities listed in Annex "A" hereof, the values of which are under consideration by the Customs Valuation Team. Subject commodities shall continue to be assessed as per existing Revisions Orders in relation to existing rules and regulations until the matter is resolved by the Customs Valuation Team or New Revision Orders affecting the same are issued, whichever comes first.

This Order shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 21 May 1999

(SGD.) NELSON A. TAN Acting Commissioner

Annex A

Cases Pending With The Customs Valuation Team

Hot Rolled Coils (HRC)

Cold Rolled Coils (CRC)

Steel Billets

Polypropylene (PP)

Polyethylene (PE)

Birla Tires

Soy Bean

Oat Meal

Aluminum Billets

Aluminum Ingots

Tinplates

Styrene Monomer

Hydrogen Peroxide

Tapioca Starch

Vinyl Chloride Monomer

White Maize Starch

Plywood

Caustic Soda Flake

Calcium Carbide

Alcohol Polyvinyl Kuraray

Glacial Acetic Acid

Hankook Tires

** See NAR Vol. 9/4, p. 697.