ILOILO CITY – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB), in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry VI (DTI) and the Regional Conciliation and Mediation Board VI (RCMB), organized a Productivity-based Incentives Scheme Learning Session to strengthen consumer welfare, boost productivity, and provide essential information on consumer rights and protection to 22 continue reading : RTWPB, RCMB and DTI VI lead learning session on productivity and consumer rights
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of the Interior and Local Government, and various local government units (LGUs), successfully concluded the first series of its cash assistance distribution to eligible rice retailers affected by the implementation of rice price ceilings in the continue reading : Over 1,000 rice retailers in MIMAROPA receive P15,000 cash aid
MAKATI CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) MIMAROPA Region immediately released a price freeze bulletin on basic necessities in affected municipalities in Oriental Mindoro following the massive oil spill from MT Princess Empress Oil Tanker in Balingawan Point. ln view of Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution No. 6290-2023, placing the municipalities of Pola, Naujan, continue reading : DTI enforces price freeze in areas affected by Oriental Mindoro oil spill
MAKATI CITY – With the theme, ‘Empowering Consumers Through Clean Energy Transition’, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)- MIMAROPA region’s provincial offices and Negosyo Centers lined up activities in celebration of the World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) 2023 promoting access to sustainable energy to consumers and other stakeholders in the region. DTI Oriental Mindoro continue reading : DTI leads consumer awareness and protection through sustainability in MIMAROPA
Koronadal City, South Cotabato – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Region 12 will spearhead the conduct of the Treasures of Region 12 Trade Expo to promote the products of the local micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in an effort to stimulate business activities in Region 12. The expo, which runs from November continue reading : DTI leads marketing of R12 best products at Treasures of R12 trade expo
On September 15, 2022, the DTI Baguio Benguet Department of Trade and Industry Baguio-Benguet Provincial Office conducted its regular monitoring and enforcement activity on three hardware shops in Baguio and Benguet, particularly for deformed steel bars of different sizes sold by these stores. During the testing of these deformed steel bars, a hardware store selling continue reading : Monitoring and Enforcement of the Philippine National Standards (PNS) for Deformed Steel Bars continues in Baguio and Benguet
DAVAO CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) – Region 11 has continued to partner with private organizations in a bid to protect consumers further. The agency inked recently a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with EMCOR, Inc., a homegrown appliance company operating in Mindanao, Visayas, and Palawan for over six decades. The partnership continue reading : DTI 11, EMCOR sign MOA on consumer protection
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through the Bureau of Philippine Standards (BPS), has issued Department Administrative Order (DAO) No. 22-02, series of 2022 updating the reference standards used in the BPS Mandatory Product Certification Schemes. The DAO which took effect on 12 June 2022, fifteen (15) days after its publication in The Philippine continue reading : DTI-BPS enhances industry competitiveness and consumer protection
Following the successful conduct of the 3rd ASEAN Consumer Protection Conference (ACPC) last 28 June 2022, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) informs the public that two (2) of the ASEAN Committee on Consumer Protection (ACCP) deliverables that are now available in the ACCP website. Officially launched during the Conference, ASEAN consumers can continue reading : ACCP advances consumer protection in ASEAN
On 10 March 2022, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Quezon team, consisting of Shared Service Facilities (SSF) Provincial Coordinator Ma. Graciela C. Ledesma and SSF Support Staff Dara Jannes C. Obmerga, conducted an Orientation on Shar ed Service Facilities Program and Consumer Advocacy together with Consumer Protection Division OIC-Chief, Lani O. Constantino, to continue reading : DTI SSF Quezon, Consumer Protection Division and Atimonan One Energy, conducts an orientation on the SSF program and consumer advocacy