Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez said that David John Thaddeus Alba, general manager of the Asociacion de Agricultores de La Carlota y Pontevedra (AALCPI), was appointed as the acting administrator of SRA.
"The president rejected the proposal to import an additional 300,000 MT of sugar. He is the chairman of the Sugar Regulatory Board and denied this in no uncertain terms," Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said in a statement.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade on August 1 officially slapped an anti-dumping tax of 42.99% and countervailing duties of 4.65% on cane sugar products from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, and Myanmar, all of which use materials originating from Thailand.