Import - Matches

The recent controversy about rice importation is not about how much should be imported — in fact, there is no impending rice shortage—but ..

Economic managers are pushing for rice importation by the private sector to temper rising prices of the Filipino staple food. “The stand of the ..

Slapping an import tariff of 35 percent on rice imports alongside reforms in the agency mandated to stabilize both the supply and prices of the Filipi..

IT all started with a despot. In 1972  former strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree (PD) 4, creating the National Grains Autho..

THE PHILIPPINES’ temporary use of quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice was intended to avert a dampening of rice prices, but the threat of the..

Revenues from the proposed imposition of a 35 percent tariff on rice imports upon expiration of the quantitative restriction (QR) – seen to reac..

The lifting of restrictions on rice imports in the country this year will signal greater competition among foreign suppliers and rice importers, as we..

State-run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is pushing to slap a 35-percent tariff on rice while providing subsidies to f..

This 2017, the Philippines' quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, which allows the government to limit the volume of rice that could be imported each..

A recent study on food security released by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said the government's policy on rice ..

The forum is being organized by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in partnership with the Congressional Policy and Budget Resear..

PIDS-CPBRD Forum on Expiration of of the Waiver for Quantitative Restrictions on Rice Importation by June 2017: Options for Food Policy

"With the Quantitative Restriction (QR) on import of rice, expected to be abolished in July, 2017, in the Philippines, it is a need of the hour to wor..

Blaming rice cartels for price manipulation cannot be considered a definitive explanation of last year's rice price hike. Sharp drop in imports is a m..

THE PHILIPPINES has allowed private rice traders to import as much as 163,000 tons of the grain this year, nearly two-thirds of which can come from Th..