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                    [Title] => Chemphil unloads LMG stake
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Chemical Industries of the Philippines Inc. (Chemphil) is unloading its majority stake in LMG Chemicals Corp. to a business group, one month after pushing back the share sale.

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Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila agreed yesterday to review the lifting of safeguard duty on imported tripolyphosphates-technical grade (STPP-TG), a key ingredient in laundry detergent.


Favila has issued an order dismissing the application for a definitive general safeguard measures against imported STPP-TG as the earlier imposed tariff expired last month.


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                    [Title] => No price increase for laundry detergents seen this year
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There will be no increase in the prices of laundry detergents this year after the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) decided to lift the safeguards on one of the product’s major ingredients, the Soap and Detergent Association of the Philippines (SDAP) said.


"The removal of the tariff will completely stop price increases for the year," SDAP vice president Alfonso C. Supetran said in an interview.


The last time soap manufacturers increased their prices was September last year when they raised the cost of detergent by five percent.


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Government sets rules to protect public interest. If an agency breaks them, it can only be for suspicious motives. That’s what’s happening to the plan for a government broadband network, and in the soap industry.


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                    [Title] => Chemphil may close shop due to import lib program
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Chemical Industries of the Philippines Inc. (Chemphil Group) — the country’s sole manufacturer of Sodium Tripolyphosphates-Technical Grade (STTP-TG) — the raw material used in laundry detergents, said they will close operation by end of May if the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will not reconsider its decision to lift the safeguards on STTP-TG importation.


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Shouldn’t local detergent manufacturers petition government for an increase in tariffs on imported finished detergents? Aside from the fact that this may no longer be possible because of government commitments under the WTO and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), Al Supetran, president of ACS Manufacturing, believes that "any business that depends on protection will not survive." 


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                    [Title] => DENR orders Pasig plant to shut down
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Favila has issued an order dismissing the application for a definitive general safeguard measures against imported STPP-TG as the earlier imposed tariff expired last month.


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Chemphil to get P130 M from sale of LMG stake

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | February 5, 2014 - 12:00am

Chemical Industries of the Philippines Inc. (Chemphil) stands to generate more than P130 million from the sale of its majority stake in LMG Chemicals Corp.

Business

Chemphil unloads LMG stake

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | January 31, 2014 - 12:00am

Chemical Industries of the Philippines Inc. (Chemphil) is unloading its majority stake in LMG Chemicals Corp. to a business group, one month after pushing back the share sale.

Business

Chemphil to decide next week on LMG Chemical buyout offer

February 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Publicly-listed Chemical Industries of the Philippines (Chemphil) will decide next week on an offer it received to purchase its entire shareholdings in subsidiary LMG Chemical Corp., the company’s top official...

Business

Favila to review safeguard tariff lifting on soaps

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | April 3, 2007 - 12:00am

Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila agreed yesterday to review the lifting of safeguard duty on imported tripolyphosphates-technical grade (STPP-TG), a key ingredient in laundry detergent. Favila...

Business

No price increase for laundry detergents seen this year

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | April 2, 2007 - 12:00am

There will be no increase in the prices of laundry detergents this year after the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) decided to lift the safeguards on one of the product’s...

Business

When agencies break rules, public suffers

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | March 30, 2007 - 12:00am

Government sets rules to protect public interest. If an agency breaks them, it can only be for suspicious motives. That’s what’s...

Opinion

Chemphil may close shop due to import lib program

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | March 30, 2007 - 12:00am

Chemical Industries of the Philippines Inc. (Chemphil Group) — the country’s sole manufacturer of...

Business

RP detergent industry struggles to stay afloat

November 9, 2006 - 12:00am

(Conclusion) Shouldn’t local detergent manufacturers petition government for an increase in tariffs on imported finished detergents? Aside from the fact that this may no longer be possible because of...

Headlines

RP detergent industry struggles to stay afloat

November 8, 2006 - 12:00am

(First of two parts) A pall of gloom pervades the offices of ACS Manufacturing Corp., makers of Pride detergent, one of the few truly Filipino detergent brands in the country.

Headlines

DENR orders Pasig plant to shut down

By Mike Frialde | September 12, 2004 - 12:00am

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ordered yesterday the shutdown of a chemical plant in Pasig City following a gas leak that downed at least 26 students of a nearby elementary school.

Metro