Opposition Senator Leila de Lima said it was imperative that the Senate makes an in-depth assessment on the impact of the Rice Tariffication Law, during the early stages of its implementation, on the country’s farmers and their families.
The Rice Tariffication Law or Republic Act No. 11203 was enacted to liberalize the “importation, exportation, and trading of rice, lifting for the purpose the quantitative import restriction on rice” in order to make rice more affordable for Filipinos.
The detained senator said she would be filing her own resolution seeking a Senate review of the Rice Tariffication Law’s impact to farmers. “It is incumbent upon the Senate to assess the impact of this law and ensure, among others, that its provisions on importing of the national food staple and enforcement of tariff rates are properly implemented and not abused, at the detriment of our local farmers,” she added.
The Federation of Free Farmers , she also said, complained that some importers paid “less than what was due from them”, if not reduce their tariff obligations by “deliberately lowering the declared value of their imports in connivance with their suppliers abroad.”“I also learned that farmers in Central Luzon have abandoned their farms now to cut on their losses. Tariff rates must be strictly enforced,” she pointed out.
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