With rice prices soaring and the debate on rice importation policies ongoing at the Senate, members of the National Food Authority (NFA) Council, the country’s rice policymaking body, have been kept in the dark about the likely backlash resulting from the decision of Department of Agriculture (DA) and NFA to continue implementing quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports despite the June 2012 expiration of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs-World Trade Organization (GATT-WTO) Agreement’s special treatment

on rice for the Philippines.

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