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A sub-committee within the House ways and means committee has recommended the adoption of a draft law that aims to retain the current excise tax structure on alcohol and tobacco products.

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The most pressing reason to revert to the original rates of import duty for swine meat is to stabilize the prices of poultry and livestock products while balancing the impact of such move to both consumers and producers, according to Executive Order 299, which will take effect on May 1.
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Angara said reviving the two key industries would make them competitive in the global market, create niche export products and create at least one million new jobs for Filipinos.

He said the leather/footwear and fiber industries have been popularized in the Philippines by Marikina shoes and leather goods and jusi, abaca and piña products.
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As this developed, the Philippine government already turned down Australia’s request to postpone the bilateral talks. The Australians asked for the talks to be deferred during the CAIRNS group meeting in Bolivia last week.
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Ayon kay Bayan Muna Party List Rep. Crispin Beltran, hindi mareresolba ang problema ng mga magsasaka sa ginawang paglipat ng opisina ng Pangulo dahil hindi naman nito binago ang kanyang agenda hinggil sa agrikultura.
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A sub-committee within the House ways and means committee has recommended the adoption of a draft law that aims to retain the current excise tax structure on alcohol and tobacco products.

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The most pressing reason to revert to the original rates of import duty for swine meat is to stabilize the prices of poultry and livestock products while balancing the impact of such move to both consumers and producers, according to Executive Order 299, which will take effect on May 1.
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Angara said reviving the two key industries would make them competitive in the global market, create niche export products and create at least one million new jobs for Filipinos.

He said the leather/footwear and fiber industries have been popularized in the Philippines by Marikina shoes and leather goods and jusi, abaca and piña products.
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As this developed, the Philippine government already turned down Australia’s request to postpone the bilateral talks. The Australians asked for the talks to be deferred during the CAIRNS group meeting in Bolivia last week.
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Ayon kay Bayan Muna Party List Rep. Crispin Beltran, hindi mareresolba ang problema ng mga magsasaka sa ginawang paglipat ng opisina ng Pangulo dahil hindi naman nito binago ang kanyang agenda hinggil sa agrikultura.
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