Amid efforts to augment the supply of meat in the country, the Department of Agriculture (DA) responded favorably to the call of importers, composed of meat processors and traders, to temporarily extend the validity of their import permit for pork, chicken, and other meat products.
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Published July 12, 2021, 1:58 PM
Pork prices at select markets in Metro Manila have remained high despite the surge in imports recorded during the first half of 2020, prompting one of the country’s largest agriculture lobby groups to call out the Department of Agriculture (DA) anew for its pro-importation stance.
The group, Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG), also called out the failure of the government’s newly implemented lower import tariffs on pork to bring down the cost of the meat product.
In a statement, SINAG Chair Rosendo So said pork prices remained high despite the surge in pork imports and the government’s move to temporarily bring down the tariffs on pork imports.
Published July 9, 2021, 1:38 PM
Philippines’ pork imports for this year are still seen to go higher at 425,000 metric tons (MT), even despite the already 401 percent surge in pork imports the country recorded from January to April of this year.
This is following the release of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) guidelines that specified how the importation of an additional volume of 200,000 MT of pork under the tariff-rate quota or Minimum Access Volume (MAV) will be implemented.
In its latest report, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) here in Manila (Post) raised its pork import forecast for the Philippines to 425,000 MT, 21 percent higher than the USDA official forecast of 350,000 MT.