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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) assured the public on Tuesday that it is proactive in addressing the challenges and uncertainties posed by the current economic global developments by closely monitoring the prices of key commodities.DTI said food items that it regularly monitors include canned fish and meat; bread;…

DTI logo The Department of Trade and Industry–Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau (DTI-FTEB) issued a total of 40,855 licenses, permits, authorities, and accreditation in 2022, reflecting a 10 percent higher than the processed applications and issued permits in 2021 and 2020. The agency attribu

The House Committee on Ways and Means has vowed to pin down the alleged Chinese mafia behind the agricultural smuggling in the Philippines as soon as Congress resume sessions this year, 2023. Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda, chairman of the said committee, said the panel has “Class

(File photo) MANILA - Officials of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Tuesday denied their supposed involvement in agricultural smuggling in the country. "I vehemently deny the accusations against me on my alleged involvement in agricultural smuggling based on a supposed 'validated' list. Law enforcement agencies such as the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and the Philippine National Police (PNP) denied the release or submission of a...

(File photo) MANILA - The Department of the Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to pass a bill institutionalizing the interagency Sub Task Group on Economic Intelligence (STGEI) to go after profiteers, price manipulators, hoarders and smugglers. During the House Committee on Agriculture and Food's hearing on the perennial problem of agricultural commodity smuggling in the country, DTI Undersecretary Ruth Castelo and DA Sec...

AFTER being tagged as the “mother of all smuggling,” the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Thursday appealed to Congress to give the agency police powers to apprehend smugglers of agricultural products. Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research Fermin D. Adriano made the appeal during a press conference after House Committee…

The Department of Agriculture will intensify efforts to weed out corruption from the agency, as Agriculture Secretary William Dar said they are ready to

Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the Department of Agriculture would intensify its efforts to weed out corruption from the agency, emphasizing that they would file administrative charges against DA officials involved in the smuggling of agricultural products.

In a few weeks, the Philippines enters a new era of managing the overseas exodus of Filipinos.

The government’s joint task force against smuggling has confiscated illegally imported farm and fishery products worth P650 million, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Wednesday. The DA said the Sub-Task Group on Economic Intelligence (STG EI) and the Compliance and Regulatory Enforcement for Security Trade Office (CREST-O) confiscated the items…