Which one among the following GIRs is different from the rest in terms of determining the applicable TCCP-AHTN code?

A buyer in Hongkong, China nominated a freight forwarder in Manila to facilitate delivery of the goods from seller’s warehouse in Dasmariñas, Cavite to the NAIA and pay airfreight charges. Since the goods are highly valuable, the buyer instructed the forwarder to procure insurance to cover airfreight transport risks.

MERALCO was awarded a contract to construct a 500-megawatt power plant in Balanga, Bataan. Due to immense volume of structural and electrical wares to be imported from Houston, TX, USA, the seller was required to cover the ocean freight, import port charges, duties/taxes customs clearing and hauling of goods from the port of Mariveles to its job site not unloaded from the delivery trucks.

Seller in Davao sold bananas in 10 wooden crates to a buyer in Quebec, Canada. Quoted price included, among others, expenses for the issuance of phytosanitary certificate, export clearing charges, inland freight and expenses for handling and loading of the crates on board the vessel. The buyer will pay the ocean freight charges upon arrival of the cargo in Canada.

What was the WCO formerly known as?

Under Article 31 of the ASEAN Charter, the chairmanship of the ASEAN is to be determined by this process.

The highest ASEAN Body that approved the AHTN is the…?

Which among the following choices contains the two import duty rates currently incorporated in the TCCP-AHTN Vol.1?

Which one among the following GIRs is used as the guiding principle in the classification of a multi-function machine, not specifically covered by any heading but each of its functions are covered by different headings?

What GIRs are used to classify refrigerated trucks with diesel engine, having a gross vehicle weight of 24 tons, imported completely disassembled, classified under TCCP-AHTN subheading 8704.23.11? Heading 87.04 covers “Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.”

“Asean Plus Three”, is ASEAN plus the following countries except for one. Which is not part of APT?

Under the trade in Goods Agreement of the ACFTA, the phrase “newer ASEAN Member States” refers to which one of the following country groupings?

Under the AFTA Rules of Origin, what should materials of unknown origin always treated as?

Seller delivered 100 boxes of electronic parts to the warehouse of British Airways located in Southampton, United Kingdom (UK). Seller took care of the export documentation and other government clearances, paid airfreight charges and produced insurance against loss or damage to the goods while in transit from UK to Mactan Airport, Cebu.

What is the Certificate of Origin used under the ACFTA Agreement?

Which one among the following are set of principles used to determine the country of origin of a good for purposes of international trade?

What is the document used in international trade attesting that the goods being traded are wholly-obtained, produced or manufactured in a particular country?

Which one among the following choices is responsible for the monitoring, reviewing and supervising of all aspects relating to the implementation of the AHTN Protocol?

Motorcycles with reciprocating internal combustion piston engine of a cylinder capacity of 50cc imported CKD, i.e. completely disassembled, classified under TCCP-AHTN subheading 8711.10.13 Heading 87.11 provides for “Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars.”

Under Column 7 of the TCCP-AHTN, as amended, the ASEAN Member State Malaysia is assigned the abbreviation ____.

Which of the following international organization succeeded the GATT?

Prior to ATIGA, this is the primary instrument for realizing the objective of AFTA.

Which one among the following refers to a special duty imposed on the importation of an article of commerce into the Philippines at less than its normal value when destined for domestic consumption in the exporting country; it is the difference between the export price and the normal value of such product, commodity or article.

Pursuant to Republic Act No. 8800 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations, to whom can an interested party file a request for special safeguard measures?

With reference to FTA, what type of Certificate of Origin must be issued for products to be eligible for preferential tariff treatment for trade between the following participating countries: Philippines, Cambodia, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand, Myanmar, and Malaysia?

Which of the following choices make up the Quad Countries that initiated the Information Technology Agreement (ITA)?

This punctuation mark is indicated when an HS Subheading is further subdivided.

Which of the following is defined by WTO as measures, such as quotas, import licensing systems, sanitary regulations, and prohibitions?

The 1st and 2nd digits of the Harmonized Systems Code refer to the:

The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System had been developed by which International Organization/Association?

For legal purposes, classification of imported articles under the AHTN using Rule 1 of Section 103 of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, shall be governed by the following, except for one:

The 5th and 6th digits of the Harmonized System refer to the:

Which of the following choices best describes an AHTN subheading code?

The ASEAN is composed of how many Member States?

The last four-member states that joined the ASEAN is commonly known as?

It is an eight-digit commodity description and coding system adopted by the ASEAN to facilitate trade within the region.

The legal texts of the Harmonized Systems are the following, except for one:

The Harmonized Systems is comprised of how many Sections?

An act of placing imported goods in the correct category to determine the tariff rates is called _____.

This is a declaration by an exporter, as certified by the issuing authority in China, that an export product complies with the origin requirement under the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area.

Under Rule 3 (a) of Section 103 of the TCCP, goods that are classifiable under two or more headings shall be classified under the heading which provides for _____:

Penalty for the article that do not bear the marks of the country of origin:

Importation that has been granted bounty, subsidy or subvention shall be subject to:

Which of the following subsidies cannot be subjected to either countervailing measures or other disciplines under the WTO Agreement?

World Trade Organization’s headquarter is at:

The maximum initial period for the application of an anti-dumping duty is:

The main objectives of WTO are the following, except:

The WTO operates as follows, except:

The WTO operates as follows:

When the ASEAN was established on August 8, 1967, how many members signed the Agreement?

The South Asian Country joined the ASEAN as their 6th member nation is _______.

Under the change in tariff classification criterion, these refer to the materials imported from a country outside the territory.

Under the Roadmap for ASEAN Integration, elimination of all import duties for these two-member countries is: 60% by 2008; 80% by 2012 and 100% by 2015 with flexibility up to 2018.

Which article under the CEPT-AFTA provides for Emergency Measures?

It is the review of the Philippine tariff system undertaken by the government on a continuing basis.

The Information Technology Agreement was initiated by the Quad countries. Which of the following are the members of the Quad?

The commitment on agriculture under the WTO allows the Philippines to remove the existing quantitative restrictions and replace these with tariff equivalents. This process is called the ________.

An international agreement or treaty entered by the President requires concurrence by which branch of the government?

It is a ceiling level above which a WTO member cannot apply tariff.

In the formulation of the Competition Policy, the domestic markets should be the sole consideration. Competing in the international market is largely dependent on how open, strong and integrate the domestic market is.

The following Legal Text of the Harmonized System are adopted by the AHTN, except:

Which of the following does not define the ASEAN subheadings?

Under the HS amendments, new headings are created if the world trade volume exceeds _________.

The following, except for one, are not considered as legal texts to the Harmonized System.

This is a trade remedy measure to protect the domestic industries against unfair trade practices caused by subsidy.

A government agency that imposes the provisional bond or measure is ___________.

China, Chinese Taipei, and Hongkong SAR are APEC members. What does the acronym SAR stand for?

“Buy National Policy”, bribery and corruption and product classification hamper the smooth flow of merchandise goods. These forms of trade restraint are commonly known as ________.

The ASEAN Vision 2020 was adopted during the ASEAN’s ____________ Anniversary.

Which of the following criterion is defined as “The classification of the final product under the HS to be produced should have a different classification from non-originating inputs”?

What is the meaning of the acronym CTSH under the CEPT-AFTA ROO?

Simple mixing, sifting, sorting, classifying, washing and painting are considered, under the ROO, as _______________.

Using the Indirect Method, what is the value-added of a final product destined for exports if the value of imported inputs is USD 900, and the FOB and CIF values of the final products total are USD 1,500 and USD$ 1,650, respectively.

Except for one, the following are the activities of the World Customs Organization.

It is a political group composed of 27 countries. It was established in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. This group today cab be described as both supranational and an intergovernmental body. Who is this body?

This body of WTO makes decisions on the trade disputes between governments that are adjudicated by the organization.

Under Section 3 of RA 9239 (Optic Media Act of 2003), the terms “business of mastering, manufacture, replicating, importation or exportation of optical media” is referred to as _______________.

In determining the origin requirements of a product under CEPT scheme, the Philippines adopts:

Which among the following under CEPT scheme of ASEAN – AFTA defines as “measures other than tariffs which effectively prohibit or restrict import or export products between member states?”

Penalty for the article that do not bear the marks of the country of origin:

GATT-WTO is acronym for:

The relief accorded the domestic industry suffering injury as a result of the unfair trade practice of dumping is:

Marking of an imported articles and containers is exempted from Marking Law:

Which of the following elements is applied to special safeguard measures only?

It is the primary method for customs valuation and imported goods are to be valued in accordance with the provision of this method whenever the conditions prescribed for its use are fulfilled.

Where dutiable value cannot be determined under this method, it is to be determined by proceeding sequentially through the succeeding methods to the first such method under which the dutiable value can be determined.

If the dutiable value cannot be determined with the use of Method One, the following valuation methods shall be applied in _____.

The order of application of Methods Four and Five may be reversed provided that the Commissioner of Customs agrees to such request taking into consideration that the reversal of the order will not give rise to real difficulties for the BOC in determining the dutiable value under Method Five.

The dutiable value of imported goods shall be the transaction value, that is, the _______________________ for the goods when sold for export to the Philippines.

The World Customs Organization advisory opinion provides guidance by elaborating the concept of “sale” as it appears in the World Trade Organization Valuation Agreement. It states that a sale may be describe as:

The underlying principles of World Trade Organization Valuation Agreement states that goods might be considered not to be subject to a sale if:

If the sale or price is subject to some conditions or considerations for which a value cannot be determined with respect to the goods being valued _______________;

Under Method One, the buyer and the seller are not related, or where they are related, such relationship did not influence the price of the goods. The buyer and the seller shall be deemed to be related only if- except:

If the Collector of Customs has grounds for considering that the relationship influenced the price, he shall communicate the grounds to the importer and the importer shall be given a reasonable opportunity to respond. If the importer contests, the matter shall be raised and resolved through the existing dispute settlement mechanism like:

It is defined as the value, apportioned as appropriate, of certain goods and services supplied directly or indirectly by the buyer free of charge or at a reduced cost for use in connection with the production and sale for export of the imported goods, to the extent that such value has not been incorporated in the price actually paid or payable.

The transaction value shall be accepted as basis for customs valuation whenever the importer demonstrates that such value closely approximates occurring at or about the same time. The term “at or about the same time” is generally interpreted as:

In applying Method 2 & 3, if more than one transaction value of similar or identical goods are found in determining the dutiable value of the imported goods ___________.

Payments in respect of patents, trademarks, and copyrights are fees related to the goods being valued that the buyer must pay as a condition of sale. These payments may be included as:

Where no such sale is found, then use a sale of identical/similar goods that takes place under any of the following conditions: