transmitted to President Duterte for approval.
“Our concern precisely is that the bureaucracy hopefully can act faster because the Senate Committee on Agriculture already endorsed this March 9, and it’s already April 17. If it’s a state of calamity declaration, one would like to think we should act swiftly,” he pointed out. “The local industry has been crying, has been bleeding in terms of challenges. We hope that the state of calamity can be immediately issued because we are already in the second quarter of the year,” Pangilinan said.
Revisiting the issue of the disparity in data between the DA and the Bureau of Customs in the matter of pork importation, Pangilinan said that differing data is prima facie evidence of smuggling. Despite urgings for clarification from several senators, the BoC and the BAI said that they stand by their data.
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