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ECONOMIES in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations need to pursue transparency and regulatory reform efforts for better implementation of non-tar..

I am pleased to share an economic brief my colleague, Christine Tang and I wrote for GlobalSource Partners (globalsourcepartners.com) a month ago.The ..

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states need to undertake transparency and regulatory reform efforts for better implementatio..

At the end of the day, things boil down to economics. And how a country addresses issues related to economics is a measurement of the boiling point. O..

During the recently concluded 30th Asean Summit, leaders from the member-nations of the Asean stressed the need to promote transparency of nontariff m..

Southeast Asian leaders should seriously consider jump-starting discussions on transforming Asean into the “European Union [EU] of the East&rdqu..

The unclear nontariff measures (NTM) being implemented by Asean countries are more protectionist in nature and hike costs for exporters in the region,..

The recent controversy about rice importation is not about how much should be imported — in fact, there is no impending rice shortage—but ..

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been working toward the free movement of goods in the region. Although significant progress has..

Economic managers are pushing for rice importation by the private sector to temper rising prices of the Filipino staple food. “The stand of the ..

Slapping an import tariff of 35 percent on rice imports alongside reforms in the agency mandated to stabilize both the supply and prices of the Filipi..

IT all started with a despot. In 1972  former strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree (PD) 4, creating the National Grains Autho..

THE PHILIPPINES’ temporary use of quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice was intended to avert a dampening of rice prices, but the threat of the..

Revenues from the proposed imposition of a 35 percent tariff on rice imports upon expiration of the quantitative restriction (QR) – seen to reac..

State-run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is pushing to slap a 35-percent tariff on rice while providing subsidies to f..