THE Philippines’ trade-in-goods deficit narrowed to $3.95 billion in June, as double-digit export growth was driven by frontloading in the run-up to higher US tariffs, the Philippine Statistics ...

THE Integrated Rural Development Foundation (IRDF) on Tuesday called on lawmakers to repeal the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) ...

Ahead of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), farmers’ groups listed a comprehensive set of ...

More is to be done for food security from an administration that claims to prioritize it. But as the nation listens to Marcos ...

The Philippines has not removed tariffs on imports from the United States of corn, rice, sugar, fish, pork, and chicken, ...

The agreement will impose tariffs of 15 percent on Japanese goods, down from a threatened 25 percent. Trump said Japan would ...

MUMBAI — India’s grain bins are bursting. As of June 1, rice stocks in government warehouses have surged to an all-time high for this time of year — up 18% from 2024 levels — while wheat ...

The government collected almost 60 percent less tariffs from imported rice in the first half compared to a year ago due to the lower prevailing tariff rate, Bureau of Customs data showed. Based on ...

The Philippines remained a net food importer in May, with agricultural imports nearly double its exports, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority ...

Donald Trump's insistence that "spoiled" Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's problems ahead of elections that could sink his premiership after less than a year ...