LOBBY group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice lifted for failing to protect the local industry against competition from cheaper imported grains that supposedly turned farming industries into sacrificial lambs in exchange for a two-year cap on importation.

The Duterte administration should lift rice QRs and impose the maximum possible tariff line of 50 percent at current international prices of rice, SINAG Chairperson Rosendo So said in a statement.

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