Philippine Tariff Commission

An n u a l Re p o r t 2009
B. Project Proposal
The Commission proposed a project entitled “Helping the Philippines Craft
a Comprehensive Competition Policy Law – Capacity Building and Advocacy
Workshop/Seminar.” The proposal was submitted to the APEC Secretariat for
possible APEC funding.
C. Assistance to Stakeholders
The Commission, being a technical agency on tariff and trade-related
matters, accedes to requests for information/inputs from various stakeholders,
including other government departments and agencies with whom it shares
common policy concerns. During the period under review, data/information
were provided to the following, as requested:
Government Agencies
~~ National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
Topics for NEDA Internal Briefing for 2009;
Duty on cement under EO 766;
2009 monthly import data of yellow corn and feed wheat;
2009 nominal average MFN Tariff by HS Section;
Reply that the Commission agrees with the analysis derived from the
frequency distribution on AANZFTA rates but the Commission found
some discrepancies on the total tariff lines on the AJCEPA rates. Hence,
the Commission also provided an updated frequency distribution on
AJCEPA; and
Annexes to EO AIFTA.
~~ National Statistics Office (NSO)
HS 2002 and MFN rates for 2005 and 2008.
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