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The Department of Trade and Industry–Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau (DTI-FTEB) issued a total of 40,855 licenses, permits, authorities, and accreditation in 2022, reflecting a 10 percent higher than the processed applications and issued permits in 2021 and 2020.
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(File photo) MANILA - The Department of the Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to pass a bill institutionalizing the interagency Sub Task Group on Economic Intelligence (STGEI) to go after profiteers, price manipulators, hoarders and smugglers. During the House Committee on Agriculture and Food's hearing on the perennial problem of agricultural commodity smuggling in the country, DTI Undersecretary Ruth Castelo and DA Secretary William Dar said the subtask group is crucial to pursue agricultural intelligence on smuggling. The subtask group consists of the DA, in collaboration with the DTI and other related government agencies. However, Dar and Castelo pointed out that the subtask group is only temporary with insufficient personnel and funding. "This started last year when we created the IATF (Inter Agency Task Force) on Food Security and the establishment of this STGEI is part of it. The [STGEI] has no regu
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QUEZON CITY, May 28 Activated under the Task Group on Food Security, the Sub Task Group on Economic Intelligence (STG-El) scored its first neutralization operation against smugglers and unscrupulous traders that undermine the country s food security with their anticompetitive business practices.
On or about 1:00 P.M. 27 May 2021, elements of the STG-El composed of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Trade and Industry (OTI), National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) conducted an anti-smuggling operation in a vacant lot located along Guillermo Street, Brgy. San Rafael Village, Navotas City.
The operation resulted to the seizure twelve (12) refrigerated container vans (’reefer’) containing assorted frozen pork, beef, jumbo shrimp, eel, black chicken, crawfish, peking duck, dori fish fillet with an estimated value of Php100.00 million. Based on the markings on the boxes, the shipmen
Smuggled frozen meat and seafood products amounting to P100 million were uncovered from 12 reefer containers, which were parked at a vacant lot in Navotas City, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Friday, May 28.
COLD CATCH Various smuggled frozen goods worth P100 million from four diff