In its third quarter meeting on July 12, 2022, the Committee on International Trade discussed the outcomes of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva on June 12-17, 2022. Ministers, representing WTO’s 164 members, reviewed the multilateral trading system and made statements for taking action on the future efforts of WTO. continue reading…
In the special meeting of the Committee on International Trade (CIT) on April 26, 2022, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Wide Field Inspectorate Federico Laciste, Jr. reported the recent anti-smuggling operations conducted by the Sub-Task Group on Economic Intelligence (STG-IE) in key areas. The team concentrated in Navotas, Divisoria, Malabon, Bulacan, Quezon, Subic continue reading…
To further intensify the country’s anti-smuggling efforts, the Committee on International Trade (CIT) discussed on March 14, 2022 the creation of a Technical Working Group (TWG) to come up with the terms of reference and membership of the proposed Anti-Smuggling Committee. Early this quarter, the Committee adopted a resolution calling for the Bureau of Customs continue reading…
For continuity in handling the forthcoming discussions on the Philippine’s rice quantitative restriction (QR) in World Trade Organization (WTO), National Sectoral Committee – Committee on International Trade (NSC-CIT) members appealed for Ambassador Esteban Conejos, Jr.’s retention as the permanent representative of the Philippines to the WTO. Amb. Conejos was appointed as the permanent representative of continue reading…
