Philippines and France will hold further discussions on potential deals in six areas in the scheduled Joint Economic Commission to be held later this second quarter. This developed following the recent meeting of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez and newly-appointed French...
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is crafting an administrative order placing dehumidifiers under mandatory inspection. Dehumidifiers, ionizers, and air purifiers have proliferated especially during the pandemic. These electrical appliances claimed to remove water from air. These...
The Board of Investments has granted pioneer tax incentives to the P30.6576 billion project of Philippines Fiber Optic Cable Network (PFOCN), a Singaporean company, which is expected to spur the country’s telecommunications sector. Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez announced the...
The Department of Trade and Industry - Bureau of Philippine Standards (DTI-BPS) expressed its strong support to gradually phase out mercury-containing products in order to protect human health and the environment. The DTI-BPS and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Environmental...
Galvanized steel sheets for roofing and general applications are now placed under mandatory product certification by the Department of Trade and Industry to ensure product standards and safety, protect domestic manufacturers and prevent entry of substandard imports. Through the Bureau of...
The Board of Investments (BOI) targets to conclude by end June this year all discussions and resolve divergent issues of the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea. Trade and Industry Undersecretary Ceferino S. Rodolfo said that this timeframe is critical because the Philippines will be...
Taiwanese-owned Sercomm has ramped up production of telco equipment to 10 million units after completing its $45 million investments at its facility in Laguna. The telecommunications and broadband equipment manufacturer disclosed this milestone to Department of Trade and Industry – Board of...
The Philippines will not stop its ongoing domestic processes for the suspension of trade concessions to Thailand even if it agreed to the creation of a facilitator-led process at the World Trade Organization to come up with a comprehensive solution to Bangkok’s continuing non-compliance to the...
SECRETARY RAMON M. LOPEZ Department of Trade and Industry (Photo by Mr. Mark Ches Ang) While there’s a growing awareness of the global competitiveness of Filipino products, there are still some Pinoys that are biased towards imported products because they think locally-made goods are not “high...
The Department of Trade and Industry has appealed that the one-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) stay within the March 29-April 4 period, stressing more companies and workers are in dire need to get back to their livelihood and business amid high unemployment in the country. DTI...
Singaporean investors are urged to explore business opportunities in five priority sectors such as manufacturing, start-up and innovation, services, research and development and infrastructure and public private partnership (PPP) even as he announced that government will be formulating the...
Six Philippine pharmaceutical firms are planning to venture into local vaccine manufacturing, Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez revealed. At the President Duterte’s “Kumusta Na Po Mahal Kong Kababayan” broadcast Wednesday (March 24) night to update Filipinos on COVID-19...
