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PhilippinesProposed measure, may since have been adopted

Animals; live; Animal originated products – Philippines

Official title

International Veterinary Health Certificates for Dogs and Cats

The Philippines notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 29 January 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Other live mammals (includes cats and dogs); Other live animals; Animal products and by-products; Meat, meat products and other animal produce

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 01 LIVE ANIMALS
    • 0106 Live animals (excl. horses, asses, mules, hinnies, bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates…
    • 010619 Live mammals (excl. primates, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, seals, sea lions and walruses, camels and other camelids, rabbits and…
All 11 codes
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 05 PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
    • 0504 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.
    • 0505 Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers, whether or not with trimmed edges, and down, not further worked…
    • 0506 Bones and horn-cores and their powder and waste, unworked, defatted, simply prepared, treated with acid or degelatinised (excl. cut to shape)
    • 0507 Ivory, tortoiseshell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared; powder and waste of these…
    • 0508 Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or…
    • 0510 Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical…
    • 0511 Animal products n.e.s. dead animals of all types, unfit for human consumption
Notifying member
Philippines
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 29 January 2026. Check WTO ePing or the Philippines for its current status.
Objectives
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/PHL/537
Keywords
Animal health, Animal diseases

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/PHL/537; it forwards comments to the Philippines.

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What the notification says

This notification is to share and inform each of the trading countries that the Philippines has revised its International Veterinary Health Certificate for Export of Pets (Dogs and Cats), Animal Products and By-Products, and Live Animals.

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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