1. Trade Policy Negotiation, Facilitation, and Promotion Services
1.1. Trade Promotion: Conduct/Facilitation/Assistance to:
1.1.1. Trade Fairs
1.1.2. Trade Missions
1.1.3. Trade Centers
1.1.4. Trade Information: promo collaterals, export opportunities information, exporters directories, and product and market profiles
1.2. Trade Facilitation
1.2.1. Business Matching
1.2.2. Trade Facilitation Activities

2. Industry Development Activities and Investment Facilitation and Promotion Services
2.1. Investment missions - outbound and inbound investment missions
2.2. Investment brokering and facilitation; conduct of investment forums
2.3. Assistance to individual firms and clustering of industry associations and sectoral groups

3. Consumer Welfare and Protection Services
3.1. Business Regulation
3.1.1. Business Name Registration
3.1.2. Accreditation of Service and Repair Shops
3.1.3. Business Licensing
3.1.4. Product Certification
3.1.5. Sales Promotions Monitoring
3.1.6. Accreditation of Contractor
3.1.7. Accreditation of Private Emission Testing Centers
3.1.8. Enforcement of Fair Trade Laws: Price Tag, Labeling, Product standards, Accreditation, Business Name Law, Sales Promo Supervision
3.1.9. Business Education and Advocacy
3.1.10. Institutional Strengthening
3.2. Consumer Welfare

3.2.1. Price and Supply Monitoring
3.2.2. Market Monitoring
3.2.3. Resolution of Consumer Complaints
3.2.4. Consumer Education and Advocacy
3.2.5. Establishment and Maintenance of Consumer Welfare Desks (CWDs)
3.2.6. Establishment and Maintenance of Consumer Consumer Welfare Centers (CWCs)
3.2.7. Establishment and Maintenance of Local Price Coordinating Councils (LPCCs)

4. Business Development Services
4.1. Promotion of trade via business matching, loan facilitation, and business name  registration
4.2. Investments promotion via investment forums, financing forums, business matching, loan facilitation
4.3. Frontline services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs)
4.3.1. Training
4.3.2. Marketing - trade fairs, selling missions, market matching, MSME display centers, trade houses
4.3.3. Product development, including packaging and labeling
4.3.4. Business consultancy
4.3.5. Business information/Database build-up
 

National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center (NERBAC)
NERBAC-CaLaBaRZon is CONVENIENCE THROUGH CONVERGENCE. It is the convergence of Region 4-A's local government units (LGUs), regional line agencies, and the private sector to make doing business in CaLaBaRZon convenient.

It will provide prospective entrepreneurs and investors with basic information on various business options that are open to them in accordance with the investment priorities of the government.

It is also a one-stop action center that facilitates the processing and documentation of all paper requirements necessary for the establishment of a business enterprise in the region, including credit services.

One of the targets of NERBAC-CaLaBaRZon is to reduce the processing time of starting a business from the existing 11 processes to five or less, more than 50% reduction.

NERBAC Functional Areas