AreaPhilippines

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date12/12/2014

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport quota

DescriptionAnnounced that applications to import 187 000 tonnes of rice under its 2014 Minimum Access Volume (MAV) commitments would be opened to the private sector, starting 28 December 2014. Imported volumes are to arrive no later than 28 February 2015 and are subject to a duty rate of 40%.