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One of the many indicators of this is how Filipino MSMEs parade creativity and craftsmanship with their proudly local products.

A purchase may seem trivial, but the collective effort to patronize local products spurs patriotism and love of country.

The COVID-19 global pandemic is sorely testing our people's resolve to create a better life for themselves.

Legal teams from the country’s top law firms are ganging up on domestic labor union Philippine Metalworkers Alliance (PMA) stressing the workers are not domestic automotive manufacturers and therefore have no authority and personality to represent the local industry in the safeguard measure case imposed by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which sought to stop the surge in the importation of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles into the country that caused serious injury to  the Philippine motor vehicle industry and automotive jobs.

The Philippine government is eyeing a way bigger minimum access volume (MAV) allocation, or about 388,790 metric tons (MT), for pork.

Go green, go local!

Makati Shangri-la, the Philippines foremost five-star business hotel located at the heart of the Makati business district along Ayala Avenue, today announced an indefinite closure of their 30-year operation due to uncertain business condition.

The country’s Micro, Small to Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has always been described as the lifeblood of the country’s business landscape that largely supports and spurs economic development and helps generate wide-scale employment.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed more funding to DELIVER-e application, a farmers-to-buyers digital platform recently launched in the Philippines. 

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has ordered all manufacturers and operators of bagging facilities to immediately cease all printing operations of previously approved cement bag designs indicating the words “Product of the Philippines” but are used to pack imported cement products as it tightened controls to ensure the quality of cement in the country.

The Department of Trade and Industry has relaxed effective today, Thursday, the control measures in the operation of malls and commercial centers but with strict compliance to the health and safety protocols.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will reimpose the mandatory certification of locally manufactured and imported plywood citing unfair competition from imported substandard plywood that threatens not only public safety, but also the local wood manufacturing industry.

Entrepreneurs are known for their sheer grit and determination, without hesitation to seek for help and inspiration from professionals when things get rough.

Despite the declining prices of locally produced palay, the Philippine government agencies are in full force to defend the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), which allowed the unlimited entry of cheaper imported rice in the country.

Bilateral trade between Philippines and Germany substantially dropped in the first half of 2020 mainly due to the impact of the COVID-19 quarantines that disrupted global supply chains.

The domestic automotive industry has urged the Department of Trade and Industry to reconsider its safeguard investigation on imported cars as sales took a dive in August.

Exports from the Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB), home to the country’s biggest leather goods manufacturers, declined by 23.69 percent following weak global demand that caused temporary closure of some firms and the retrenchment of at least 18,000 workers.

Trade deficit in the agriculture sector fell during the second quarter of the year amid lower imports and exports, a Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed.