Consumers should be provided with payment options when purchasing products and services noting the practice of a number of retailers in requiring installment only sales, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) sees the need to reiterate the applicable provisions of the Consumer Act of the Philippines and other relevant laws to ensure that consumers continue reading : DTI conducts public hearings on the draft Guidelines for Payment Options on the Purchase of Consumer Products and Services
MAKATI – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Board of Investments (BOI) will back up the expansion plan of the New Kinpo Group (NKG), the world’s leading consumer electronics manufacturing group. In a meeting with DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez and Undersecretary Ceferino Rodolfo last 2 May 2019, NKG’s CEO Simon Shen shared continue reading : DTI-BOI supports New Kinpo Group’s plans to expand in Batangas
For the information and guidance of the consumers and retailers, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released the updated Suggested Retail Price (SRP) list of basic necessities and prime commodities (BNPCs) dated as of 13 February 2019. Out of 242 shelf keeping units (SKUs) in the SRP list, 186 or 77 percent retained their continue reading : DTI releases latest expanded SRP list of basic and prime goods
In its monitoring today at the Commonwealth Market and various supermarkets in Quezon City, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) found that prices of agricultural products dipped to its most reasonable level while manufactured basic necessities and prime commodities are pegged at their Suggested Retail Prices (SRPs) or even lower. The decline in the continue reading : Prices of agricultural products now down to most reasonable level, says DTI
DTI-Cagayan Provincial Director Bernardino Mabborang leads supply and price monitoring of basic necessities and prime commodities on September 14, 2018 in Tuguegarao City. With just a few hours before super typhoon Ompong made its landfall in Baggao, and continued its onslaught in the entire province of Cagayan, the Department of Trade and Industry Cagayan continue reading : DTI – Cagayan, City Government of Tuguegarao conduct supply and price monitoring before Ompong onslaught
The DTI Guimaras Provincial Office regularly conducts the monitoring on prices and supply of cement in the island province to ensure its availability in the market. Based onj the monitoring conducted, cement prices remain stable for the past three months. Below is the three – month prevailing prices of 40kg bag cement in Guimaras: continue reading : Cement prices in Guimaras stable – DTI
The DTI Guimaras Provincial Office has intensified its monitoring of retail stores selling liquid pertroleum gas (LPG) in the municipalities of San Lorenzo and Sibunag in the Province of Guimaras. A P20.00 increase in prices of LPG was noted based on last month’s monitoring. As of August 16, the prices of 11 kg Gasul continue reading : P20 increase in LPG in Guimaras stores – DTI
The DTI Guimaras Provincial Office and the Municipality of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras conducted a joint weighing scales inspection in the town’s barangays (villages) on June 25 and 27 and on July 3 to 5, 2018. The activity was carried out to ensure that only accurate weighing scales are used by sari-sari stores especially those continue reading : Inspection team confiscates 20 weighing scales in Nueva Valencia
The DTI Guimaras recently conducted an information drive with members of Consumer Rights Advocacy of the Youth and Netizens (CRAYONS) Club of Simeon J. Jabasa National High School. CRAYONS was organized last year with students, teachers and parents as its members. Since its organization, the group has been an active partner of the DTI on continue reading : Academe embraces consumer advocacy programs