{"id":121111,"date":"2017-10-03T23:12:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T03:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121111"},"modified":"2017-10-03T23:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T03:12:33","slug":"dti-to-equally-test-local-and-imported-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/03\/dti-to-equally-test-local-and-imported-cement\/","title":{"rendered":"DTI to equally test local and imported cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_120668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120668\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ramon_lopez_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120668\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ramon_lopez_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez (Photo By Philippine Information Agency - Philippine Information Agency, Public Domain)\" width=\"461\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ramon_lopez_cropped.jpg 461w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ramon_lopez_cropped-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=60493470\">Photo By Philippine Information Agency &#8211; Philippine Information Agency, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) plans to apply equal testing procedures for local cement manufacturers and importers.<\/p>\n<p>DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez told reporters that his agency has ongoing consultations with cement producers and importers to improve the current department administrative order (DAO) on cement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing is clear &#8212; to remove distinction between manufacturers and importers. Both will undergo product testing,\u201d Lopez said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we ensure is to have product [standard] compliance for the benefit of the consumers, whether we do it pre- and post-shipments or pre-shipment only. That\u2019s what we are studying,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nLopez said the DTI wants to apply same testing procedure for both cement importers and manufacturers to avoid dispute between the two parties.<\/p>\n<p>It was noted that DTI Department Administrative Order 17-05 has created feud between importers and manufacturers since it only requires the former to get Import Commodity Clearance while\u00a0 exempting manufacturers from this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) plans to apply equal testing procedures for local cement manufacturers and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":116366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25923,5579,12337],"class_list":["post-121111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cement","tag-department-of-trade-and-industry","tag-ramon-lopez","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}