TREND. Cristine Joy Arlos arranges decorative items that she sells online at her residence in Barangay San Martin De Porres, Quezon City in this undated photo. She has been in the online selling industry since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in March 2020. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has requested the Senate to approve the passage into law of the Internet Transactions Act. DTI Assistant Secretary Mary Jean Pacheco said the Internet Transactions Act, or the E-Commerce law, is one of the administration's priority legislative agendas as mentioned by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his first State of the Nation Address. "We'd like to see a robust e-commerce sector that will also protect consumers, data privacy, intellectual property and security, as well as of course product and safety standards," Pacheco said during Monday's virtual organizational meeting with the Committee on Trade, Commerce, and Entr
The new adminis-tration inherited a deadly and economically crippling pandemic, a heavy debt that was incurred to respond to the health crisis, surging fuel prices, a much weakened peso as well as crises in agriculture, food security and education.
Foreign and business groups in the Philippines have called for the passage of 24 priority reform measures in the 19th Congress to boost economic growth in the country.
The groups submitted their recommendations to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on July 20 in anticipation of the president’s first S
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