The Tariff Commission has scheduled a hearing on the proposal to lower tariffs on rice from 35% to 10% on September 15.
The TC has given interested parties until September 14 to submit their slide presentations for the scheduled hearing.
According to the TC, the Foundation for Economic Freedom Inc. filed the petition to reduce the tariff on rice to 10%. FEF is the same organization that advocated for a reduction in pork tariffs.
Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on Wednesday.
Humans are increasingly settling in areas highly exposed to dangerous flooding, a study warned Wednesday, with China helping drive the rise in risky urban expansion into exposed areas.
To hunt the narwhal, whose long tusk was the unicorn horn of medieval myth, you need absolute silence.
Daisuke Suzuki is helping by doing what he does best as life tentatively returns to normal for the devastated fishing communities of Japan’s Fukushima region: making sake.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos lifted a price ceiling on rice Wednesday, weeks after capping the cost of the staple to support poor households.
