The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has stood its ground stating it does not need the concurrence from the Tariff Commission (TC) to adjust a safeguard duty rate on a particular import that has been causing injury or serious threat to a domestic industry. This was stated by Bureau of Import...
There appears to be confusion in the imposition of the second year safeguard duty on imported cement with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Tariff Commission (TC), and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) apparently not coordinating with each other. This transpired at the recent public hearing...
Wants higher safeguard duty instead Local cement manufacturers have asked the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to postpone the reduction of the P10 per bag definitive cement safeguard...