+ Follow TRADE SECRETARY CESAR V Tag
TRADE SECRETARY CESAR V
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[Title] => Corn board leads effort to draw up corn roadmap
[Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will work hand in hand with the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Corn Competitiveness Board to draw up a roadmap for the local corn industry.
In a recent presentation to Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima, NCCB chairman Doris Magaysay-Ho presented a background on the National Grains Highway Program.
The objectives of the program is to increase local corn supply and lower production cost through production efficiency and decrease post-harvest losses.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-19 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097285
[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[ArticleID] => 250931
[Title] => Anti-dumping duty on soap raw material extended for 3 years
[Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave local soap manufacturers a reprieve until 2007 with the approval of their request for a three-year extension of the anti-dumping duty on the importation of sodium tripolyphosphates (STTP) from China.
"We have found that the lifting of the imposition of the definitive anti-dumping duty on STTP will result in the continuance or recurrence of the dumping and injury," said Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-22 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1704647
[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
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[ArticleID] => 247437
[Title] => Aussie mining firm’s Bicol proj endorsed for ecozone status
[Summary] => Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima has endorsed to Malacañang the Rapu-Rapu mining project site of Australia’s Lafayette Mining Ltd. as a special economic zone.
Purisima said they have recommended that the project be classified as a special ecozone "to again spark the interest of foreign mining firms in the country by offering them more incentives and recognizing their contribution to the export industry."
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-24 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 246629
[Title] => Gov’t to use X-ray machines to combat smuggling, speed up cargo examination
[Summary] => Seven X-ray machines valued at an estimated $30-million will soon be utilized at the country’s major seaports to combat smuggling and speed up examination of inbound and outbound cargoes.
The National Development Co. (NDC) and the Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC) have been designated to finance and procure the seven container X-ray machines. It will then be turned over to the Bureau of Customs (BOC).
Both the NDC and the PITC are attached agencies of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-18 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097672
[AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres
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[ArticleID] => 246248
[Title] => DTI urges exporters to expand RP share of Korean market
[Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is urging local exporters to increase the country’s share of the Korean market to address the widening trade gap between the two countries with Korea enjoying a bigger lead.
"There is an urgent need to address the long running series of deficit in Korea’s favor and expand the Philippine share of the Korean market," Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima said during the annual membership meeting of the Korean Chamber of Commerce Philippines Inc.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-15 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres
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[ArticleID] => 246260
[Title] => DTI issues guidelines on foreign equity participation
[Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has issued a memorandum circular stating that 100-percent foreign ownership is allowed except in industries included in the foreign investments negative list.
"Foreign ownership limitation is the exception rather than the rule in so far as foreign investment is concerned," Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima, who is also chairman of the Board of Investments (BOI), said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-15 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 245038
[Title] => Locally manufactured tiles benefit from weak peso
[Summary] => The weakening of the peso against the dollar has had an unexpected benefit on Philippine-made tiles, according to Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima.
According to Purisima, because of the depreciation of the peso and the appreciaion of the baht, one local tile manufacturer, Mariwas "now exports to Thailand, rather than before, when they were importing tiles from Thailand."
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-03 00:00:00
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[Title] => SunPower inaugurates solar wafer plant today
[Summary] => SunPower Philippines Manufacturing Limited inaugurates today its $300-million solar wafer manufacturing plant inside the Laguna Technopark in Biñan, Laguna.
President Arroyo, Energy Secretary Vicente S. Perez, Trade Secretary Cesar V. Purisima together with the high officials of SunPower Corp. TJ Rodgers, chairman; Thomas Werner, chief executive officer; Minh Pham, vice-president for worldwide manufacturing; and Gregory Reichow, SunPower Philippines plant manager, will lead the inauguration rites.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-18 00:00:00
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[Title] => DTI faces ‘pork crisis’ over row between raisers and dealers
[Summary] => After the chicken supply shortage, the Department of Trade and Industry now faces a "pork crisis" as a result of a growing dispute between hog raisers and dealers.
The Philippine Association of Meat Processors, the Meat and Hog Dealers Association of the Philippines and the Pampanga Association of Meat Processors are complaining about the "excessive profiteering" being done by some hog raisers resulting in the increase in pork prices.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-28 00:00:00
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