DTI asserts authority on safeguard measure

Published January 4, 2021, 5:00 AM
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has stood its ground stating it does not need the concurrence from the Tariff Commission (TC) to adjust a safeguard duty rate on a particular import that has been causing injury or serious threat to a domestic industry.
This was stated by Bureau of Import Services (BIS) Director Luis Catibayan when asked on the different stand by the TC over a decision by DTI Secretary Ramon M. Lopez to adjust the safeguard duty on the second year of the three-year definitive safeguard measure on imported cement.
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Catibayan stressed that it is the “discretion of the DTI Secretary” and that the “DTI Secretary has the power to determine” the safeguard duty rate.

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