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Alliance Sales Co., Inc. vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

ALLIANCE SALES CO., INC., petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, RAFAEL SUMADCHAT, representing R. SUMADCHAT BONDED WAREHOUSE and the COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Port of Manila, respondents.

G.R. No. L-47694 | 1980-10-23

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This case is about the six-working-day free storage period for cargoes discharged from vessels docking at the Port of Manila and the "flexible transfer" system of handling, storage and disposal of imported goods in the said port.

The record shows that in October, 1963 Alliance Sales Co., Inc. ordered three hundred drums (each drum weighing 735 pounds) of solid caustic soda from the Dow Chemical International, Inc. of San Francisco, California. That cargo was unloaded in the Port of Manila from the SS Philippine Jose Abad Santos on November 28, 1963.

The discharge of the cargoes from the said vessel was...