THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday urged the country’s rice industry stakeholders to uphold free and fair trade amid the negative perception on rice importation under Republic Act (RA) 11203 or the “Rice Tariffication Law (RTL).”
“It is true that under RTL, we encourage free trade primarily to lower the price of rice in the market. But let me also emphasize that we operate on the premise of fair trade, regardless of the volume that we are looking into. Our measures to ensure this has always been in place,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in a statement.
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