THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is proposing a 35-percent tariff on sugar imports as the government plans to increase these to stabilize prices, its chief said on Thursday.

In a Viber message, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said the tariff would serve to protect sugar producers, and that revenues from it would go to the government, “instead of traders and millers.”

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