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COL Resolution 02-02 A COUNCIL OF LEADERS’ RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE TARIFF COMMISSION’S TOTAL DISREGARD OF THE PUBLIC’S INTEREST AND CALLING FOR ITS REVAMP AND EXPANSION TO INCLUDE SECTORAL REPRESENTATION WHEREAS,
developed countries are recently reviewing their commitments in
international trade liberalization because of adverse effects on their
respective industries and local employment; WHEREAS,
trade issues are issues of public interest because of their direct impact
on Filipino jobs; WHEREAS,
employment in local industries has drastically decreased in the last few
years as a result of the massive influx of dumped and smuggled products; WHEREAS,
the local cement industry and its workers were hardest hit by the surge of
imported and smuggled cement from Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan; WHEREAS,
the Tariff Commission (TC) has failed dismally to take into account public
interest in the hearing conducted for the local cement industry’s
petition for Safeguard Measures against the importation of Gray Portland
Cement; WHEREAS,
the Tariff Commission (TC) blatantly ignored the plea of the cement
industry workers to be heard in the public hearing conducted for the
purpose of ascertaining the injury caused by importation on the local
cement industry; RESOLVED,
THEREFORE, TO CONDEMN THE TARIFF COMMISSION (TC) FOR DISREGARDING THE
PUBLIC INTEREST AND HEREBY URGES THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE
AND INDUSTRY (DTI) TO IGNORE ITS RECOMMENDATION AND GRANT THE APPLICATION
OF THE LOCAL CEMENT INDUSTRY FOR SAFEGUARD MEASURES PROVIDED THAT THE JOB
SECURITY OF CEMENT INDUSTRY WORKERS IS ASSURED. WE
FURTHER CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO: REVAMP THE TARIFF COMMISSION (TC);
EXPAND ITS COMPOSITION TO INCLUDE SECTORAL REPRESENTATIVES; AND, CONDUCT
ITS PUBLIC HEARINGS IN SUCH A WAY THAT ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN THE ISSUES
BEING HEARD, PARTICULARLY THE WORKERS IN THE INDUSTRY CONCERNED, ARE
EFFECTIVELY REPRESENTED. DONE
THIS 26TH DAY OF MARCH 2002. | |
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