{"id":17756,"date":"2014-07-02T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17756"},"modified":"2014-07-02T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T19:29:11","slug":"pnoy-orders-smuggled-garlic-rice-to-be-released-into-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/02\/pnoy-orders-smuggled-garlic-rice-to-be-released-into-market\/","title":{"rendered":"PNoy orders smuggled garlic, rice to be released into market"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3975\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3975\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SMUGGLED-RICE.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; To prevent possibilities of price manipulation, President Benigno Aquino III ordered the release of smuggled garlic and rice seized by the Bureau of Customs (COM) into the market.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOne of the things that I had tasked the DA, the DTI and the Customs is to conduct phyto-sanitary testing of the confiscated garlic. If it passes and conforms with the laws, we will unload all this into the market to ease prices,\u201d Aquino said during the 67th anniversary of the Philippine Air Force at Clark Air Base, Pampanga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The president also commented that the Department of Agriculture\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(DA) and of Trade and Industry&#8217;s (DTI) rolling stores which sells items subject to price increase did not create an impact on consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBut the price keeps on rising. The issue is somebody is manipulating the prices and not the law of supply and demand,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To ensure the strict implementation of the suggested retail prices, the president said that DTI has increased its price monitoring and law enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThose who will be found violating the Price Act and selling rice without proper authorization will be fined and face criminal cases,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; To prevent possibilities of price manipulation, President Benigno Aquino III ordered the release of smuggled garlic and rice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[5501,6274],"class_list":["post-17756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-garlic","tag-release-of-smuggled-rice","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756","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=17756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}