The Department of Trade and Industry will require motor vehicle dealers to allow outright cash mode of payment as an option amid complaints that buyers are forced to pay on installment basis only where interest rate is usuriously high. DTI Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said at the Senate hearing by the...
DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo bB Ali Vicoy) Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Center (PMVIC) owners on Feb. 11 heeded the call of Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade to lower their current inspection fees for private vehicles from P1,500-P1,800, to P600 while there is a...
DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo bB Ali Vicoy) Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade today (Feb. 11) appealed to private vehicle inspections centers (PMVICs) to lower their inspection fees for private vehicles registering with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) from...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is automating its motor vehicle inspection system to ensure the roadworthiness of vehicles. Unsafe vehicles on the road can kill, Transportation Secretary Arthur P. Tugade underscored. in 2019 alone, Metro Manila had a total of 121, 771 road crashes,...
Toyota wants to ensure that customers all over the Philippines get a high quality vehicle, regardless of the distance from Toyota’s main operating facility in Santa Rosa, Laguna. In pursuit of this, Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) will start operations of P4.5-billion Batangas Vehicle Logistics...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and Land Transportation (LTO) is now joining forces with Department of Health (DOH), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Department of Education (DepEd) and the private sector in coming up with an effective...
The Philippines’ Tariff Commission (TC) has set a public hearing on wide ranging product categories totaling 37 tariff lines, including rice, corn, cars, motor vehicle parts, chemicals, and cement imported from Thailand which tariff concessions may be suspended in retaliation to Thailand’s...
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) Japan, which local subsidiary Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) imports 39 completely built up (CBU) models, said the Philippines’ imposition of safeguard measures on imported CBU passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) will not lead to increased...
By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP), the country’s largest car company, has acknowledged that while it continued to import vehicles to meet local demand it also said that producing vehicles locally is an even more essential part of the economic recovery efforts of the...
To benefit laid off auto workers A group of automotive workers has asked the government to reallocate a portion of the multi-billion worth of tax perks granted to participants in the tax incentive-driven Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS) Program as part of social amelioration...
Participants to the tax incentive-driven Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS) Program have categorically told the government they cannot meet the agreed volume production requirement over the specified 6-year period. Rommel T. Gutierrez, vice-president of Toyota Motor...
Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI), the bottling arm of C oca-Cola in the Philippines , has tapped the country’s leading automotive company, Toyota Motor Philippines, Corp. (TMP), and leasing partner, Orix Rental Corporation (ORC), to provide new vehicles for its sales...
