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

There is a need to reduce regulations in the tuna industry to make it efficient and competitive, according to researchers of state think tank Philippi..

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 ..

ECONOMIES in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations need to pursue transparency and regulatory reform efforts for better implementation of non-tar..

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states need to undertake transparency and regulatory reform efforts for better implementatio..

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..

During the recently concluded 30th Asean Summit, leaders from the member-nations of the Asean stressed the need to promote transparency of nontariff m..

The unclear nontariff measures (NTM) being implemented by Asean countries are more protectionist in nature and hike costs for exporters in the region,..

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

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been working toward the free movement of goods in the region. Although significant progress has..

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..