The Department of Agriculture’s insistence in resorting to importation of meat products has raised serious suspicions on its actions that require a congressional investigation, House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said Sunday.
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Speaker Lord Allan Velasco
(Lord Allan Velasco’s Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Of the total fund, nearly a third or P108 billion, will finance another social amelioration scheme for impacted households through programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Velasco filed Thursday, February 4, House Bill 8628 or the proposed “Bayanihan to Arise as One Act”, to be known as Bayanihan 3. The bill is expected to be referred to its committee assignment on Monday.
Already, 115 House members have declared support for the immediate approval of the measure. They have also signified their intention to co-author HB 8628.
Marikina City Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo, who previously filed her own economic stimulus measure, is a principal proponent of HB 8628.
SunStar PH garment exporters to petition EU over possible scrapping of tariff privileges
POTENTIAL LOSS. The potential loss of tariff advantages offered by the European Union to the Philippines could harm garment exports, an industry that is already heavily battered by the Covid-19 pandemic. (SunStar file)
+ February 07, 2021 THE Philippine garment industry is preparing to petition the European Commission, asking it not to consider calls for the country to lose its Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) access to European Union (EU) markets.
The call follows a resolution adopted by the European Parliament in late September calling on the European Commission to temporarily withdraw the Philippines’ access from the scheme because of human rights abuses.
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