PH Govt Plans Potential Tariff Hikes on Rice Imports 

a spoon filled with rice on top of a table

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is exploring ways to balance the current position of local farmers in the local rice industry.   One of the considerations that the DA is looking into is to impose a higher tariff by at least 13 percentage to rice imports from four of the country’s major suppliers, including Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Pakistan.  The idea is to “neutralize” the price disadvantage […]