{"id":17258,"date":"2014-06-27T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2014-06-27T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:36:52","slug":"govt-to-relax-restrictions-on-rice-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/27\/govt-to-relax-restrictions-on-rice-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t to relax restrictions on rice imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rice.jpg\" alt=\"rice\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rice.jpg 225w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rice-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Philippines said on Friday that it would ease up on restrictions on imports of rice in order to increase opportunities for other key suppliers in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Undersecretary Segfredo Serrano said that taxes on imports swill likewise be lowered, with a charge of 35 percent on total annual shipments up to 805,200 tons, and 50 percent beyond that level,.<\/p>\n<p>At present, tariff is 40 percent on shipments up to 350,000 tons, and 50 percent beyond that point.<\/p>\n<p>Serrano explained that the new duty rates would apply until 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a done deal,&#8221; he said, adding that the Philippines expects formal approval of the new deal from the World Trade Organization (WTO) next month. &#8220;It will take effect immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Serrano said that under this new deal, the Philippines could buy up to 293,000 tons of rice with the 35 percent tariff from Vietnam; the same amount from Thailand; 50,000 tons each from China, India and Pakistan; 15,000 tons from Australia; 4,000 tons from El Salvador; and 50,000 tons from other exporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Philippines said on Friday that it would ease up on restrictions on imports of rice in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[448,6034,5500],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-imports","tag-restrictions","tag-rice","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}