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SGS was claiming the amount under a comprehensive import supervision service agreement with the government, which allowed the Geneva-based firm to undertake pre-shipment inspections of exports in behalf of the state. 


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                    [Title] => Int’l arbitration court seen to rule on SGS’s collection case vs RP in 4 months
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The Philippines sent a delegation to Paris where the arbitration court is based and held a hearing last month.


The Philippine government has initiated moves to ask the international arbitration court to dismiss the petition for arbitration filed by SGS, saying the government and the company had earlier agreed to resolve the dispute in the Philippines.


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                    [Title] => Government seeks SGS nod on P6.5-B payment plan
                    [Summary] => The Arroyo administration is asking the Swiss-based pre-shipment inspection firm Societe Generale Surveillance (SGS) to allow it to pay its unsettled obligations worth P6.48 billion in tranches or installments.


The SGS has billed the National Government about P6.48 billion for services rendered from September 1998, to March 2000.


Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho said government will pay SGS but wants to do so in tranches over a number of years.


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                    [Title] => Businessmen want SGS back as third party contractor
                    [Summary] => Frustrated by persistent conflicts with the Bureau of Customs over the valuation of imported goods, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) wants the government to accredit Societe Generale Surveillance (SGS) as third party contractor to conduct independent valuation for importers.


Seven months after the government permanently terminated its pre-shipment inspection contract with the SGS, PCCI vice president Sergio Ortiz-Luis said the BOC has been in constant conflict with importers over the value of imports which are the basis for assessing import duties.


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This developed even as the Estrada administration has not found the money to
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The new service contract will cover pre-shipment processing since the Bureau of
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The Association of Foreign Chambers of Commerce and Industry is urging the
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SGS conducts pre-shipment inspection and valuation under a contract with the
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SGS was claiming the amount under a comprehensive import supervision service agreement with the government, which allowed the Geneva-based firm to undertake pre-shipment inspections of exports in behalf of the state. 


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The Philippines sent a delegation to Paris where the arbitration court is based and held a hearing last month.


The Philippine government has initiated moves to ask the international arbitration court to dismiss the petition for arbitration filed by SGS, saying the government and the company had earlier agreed to resolve the dispute in the Philippines.


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The SGS has billed the National Government about P6.48 billion for services rendered from September 1998, to March 2000.


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Seven months after the government permanently terminated its pre-shipment inspection contract with the SGS, PCCI vice president Sergio Ortiz-Luis said the BOC has been in constant conflict with importers over the value of imports which are the basis for assessing import duties.


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service contract.

This developed even as the Estrada administration has not found the money to
settle its P4.5-billion arrears with the SGS.

The new service contract will cover pre-shipment processing since the Bureau of
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