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Department Circular No. ___, Series of 2025: Rules

Official title

Department Circular No. ___, Series of 2025: Rules and Regulations Governing the Importation of Agricultural, Fish, Fishery/Aquatic, and its Products and By-Products, Animal Feeds, Feed Ingredients and Feed Additives; and Fertilizers, Pesticides, and Other Agricultural Chemical Products into the Philippines

The Philippines notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 13 October 2025. The comment period closed on 12 December 2025.

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Products

Importation of agricultural and fishery commodities, including: Plants, plant products, and related materials capable of harboring plant pests (e.g., seeds, fresh fruits, vegetables, fibers, grains, cereals, GM plants, wood packaging materials); Live animals; animal products an

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 01 LIVE ANIMALS
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 02
  • 03 · Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
    • 03
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 04
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 05 PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
  • 06 · Trees and other plants, live; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
    • 06 LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS; BULBS, ROOTS AND THE LIKE; CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE
  • 07 · Vegetables and certain roots and tubers; edible
    • 07 EDIBLE VEGETABLES AND CERTAIN ROOTS AND TUBERS
  • 08 · Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons
    • 08 EDIBLE FRUIT AND NUTS; PEEL OF CITRUS FRUIT OR MELONS
All 24 codes
  • 09 · Coffee, tea, mate and spices
    • 09 COFFEE, TEA, MATÉ AND SPICES
  • 10 · Cereals
    • 10
  • 11 · Products of the milling industry; malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten
    • 11 PRODUCTS OF THE MILLING INDUSTRY; MALT; STARCHES; INULIN; WHEAT GLUTEN
  • 12 · Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
    • 12 OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER
  • 13 · Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
    • 13
  • 14 · Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
    • 14
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 15
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 16 PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, OF FISH, OF CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES, OR OF INSECTS
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 23 RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER
  • 30 · Pharmaceutical products
    • 3002 Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or…
    • 300290 Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses
    • 3004 Medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses 'incl. those for transdermal…
  • 31 · Fertilizers
    • 31 FERTILISERS
  • 38 · Chemical products n.e.c.
    • 38 MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
    • 3808 Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up for retail…
  • 44 · Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
    • 44
Notifying member
Philippines
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 13 October 2025. Check WTO ePing or the Philippines for its current status.
Objectives
  • Food safety
  • Animal health
  • Plant protection
  • Protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/PHL/533
Keywords
Human health, Animal health, Plant health, Pests

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 12 December 2025
Proposed adoption
December 2025
Proposed entry into force
This Circular shall take effect 15 days after completion of its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation and its filing with the Office of the National Administrati

How to comment

The comment period closed on 12 December 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/PHL/533; it can take them up with the Philippines.

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What the notification says

This Circular aims to amend the existing regulatory regime for the importation of agricultural, fish, fishery/aquatic, its products, by-products, fertilizers, pesticides, and other agricultural chemical products into the Philippines in view of recent legislative developments. The objective is to protect human, animal, and plant life from risks associated with contaminants, pests, and diseases.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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