Aside from the local livestock industry, the Philippine government also stands to lose if the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) proposal to reduce the tariff on pork imports will be given the green light. This was according to a resolution adopted by the Philippine Council for Agriculture and...
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...
The Philippines today slapped a provisional safeguard duty against imported passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) to protect the domestic motor vehicle manufacturing industry from the onslaught of imported vehicles, a move that will hit Thailand and Indonesia the most being the top...
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...