THE Philippines’ chronic struggle to come to grips with its reliance on rice as a primary staple of both the economy and the Filipino diet heated up a bit this week with the declaration by the Duterte administration that it intended to let the quantitative restriction (QR) granted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on rice imports lapse on schedule in June next year, rather than ask for another extension of the exemption.
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