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Market competition to fight rising inflation  The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to further relax the country’s trade barriers imposed on regulated products to provide more competition amid rising prices of consumer products in the domestic market. In his latest economic bulletin,...

The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has defended the Department of Trade and Industry’s imposition of safeguard measures and non-tariff barriers (NTBs) on certain imports to protect domestic industries, but the country’s anti-trust watchdog also equally stressed that such legitimate...