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The weakening of the peso against the US dollar could make certain food items more expensive in the near-term, but it would be good for exporters as i..

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has thrown its support behind the proposal of Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez’s to replace the country&..

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has thrown its support behind the proposal of Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez’s to replace the country&..

In time for Senate committee hearing on rice subsidies, dozens of protesters trooped to the gates of the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City, June..

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has signed an order extending the quota on imported rice for three more years, heeding the recommendation of the National Ec..

The Philippines has decided to extend for three more years its quantitative restriction (QR) for rice, a measure that can benefit local farmers, accor..

THE chairman of the House committee on agriculture and food has filed a bill seeking for a tariff scheme for rice after the lapse of the waiver on the..

I am pleased to share an economic brief my colleague, Christine Tang and I wrote for GlobalSource Partners (globalsourcepartners.com) a month ago.The ..

At the end of the day, things boil down to economics. And how a country addresses issues related to economics is a measurement of the boiling point. O..

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..