MANILA, Philippines — Adjustments in the minimum access volume (MAV) on imported pork and its reduced tariff rates are already “good as approved,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Thursday.
“Palagay ko good as approved na ‘yan kasi no’ng magusap kami ni [Finance Secretary] Sonny Dominguez that I gave him the go signal as far as the Senate is concerned and some of the leaders of the hog raisers that we talked to, he said ‘Right now, right this moment, I will inform the President’,” Sotto told reporters in an online interview.
“That’s what he said. It’s a done deal,” he added.
Sotto earlier announced that senators and the government’s economic managers have …
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