CABANATUAN City, Nueva Ecija: The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) appeared helpless over the presence of suspected smuggled goods in Nueva Ecija because of the limited scope of its regulatory power.

The local DTI officials admitted they find it hard to determine which of the 10,131 registered business names as of September 2017 being used as dummies of unscrupulous alien traders.

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