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As several countries have reduced tariff rates, other forms of regulatory measures that impact on trade have proliferated. These regulations, collecti..

President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to call on Congress to approve the proposed federal charter and other measures such as rice tarrification in his..

Quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importation have not worked for us. Much of the benefits from price support have been captured by the rice mill..

The number of senior citizens, which has grown from 6.3 million in 2010 to 7.6 million in 2015, is expected to reach 11.7 million by 2025, and 22.6 mi..

THE Senate Committee on Food and Agriculture wants to perpetually earmark at least P10 billion to the rice sector annually once the quantitative restr..

THE country’s economic managers renewed their call to Congress this week to pass House Bill 4904, or the rice tariffication bill, to amend the A..

Tax reform has undoubtedly coincided with a period of higher inflation risk in the country. Any man or woman on the street can tell you that the slow ..

Some years back, University of Chicago economists Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales wrote a book called “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists...

Myrna Panaguiton, a 56-year-old on-call helper in Caloocan City, was doubtful about the prospect of cheaper rice in the market before the end of the y..

Removing the quota on rice imports and instead slapping them with a 35-percent tariff rate will bring down domestic prices by up to P7 a kilo, the Dep..

The free trade movement in the Philippines “took a back seat” as the Duterte administration shifted the government focus to addressing the..

The free trade movement in the Philippines “took a back seat” as the Duterte administration shifted the government focus to addressing the..

This was one of the valuable insights from the Cacao Link Luzon Congress held in San Fernando, Pampanga on Nov. 16-17. It was organized by the Philipp..

The country’s economic managers appear bent on removing next year the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importation to comply with the comm..

The Philippines had enjoyed the protection of quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, or rice- import caps, for more than two decades. Upon joining the..