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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10848Approved by the President on May 23, 2016AN ACT FURTHER EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS ENHANCEMENT FUND (ACEF), AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8178, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9496, ENTITLED: “AN ACT REPLACING QUANTITATIVE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, EXCEPT RICE, WITH TARIFFS, CREATING THE AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS ENHANCEMENT FUND, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10845Approved by the President on May 23, 2016AN ACT DECLARING LARGE-SCALE AGRICULTURAL SMUGGLING AS ECONOMIC SABOTAGE, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10817Approved by the President on May 16, 2016AN ACT INSTITUTING THE PHILIPPINE HALAL EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION PROGRAM, CREATING FOR THE PURPOSE THE PHILIPPINE HALAL EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION BOARD, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10816Approved by the President on May 16, 2016AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF FARM TOURISM IN THE PHILIPPINESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10659Approved by the President on March 27, 2015​AN ACT PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE SUGARCANE INDUSTRY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10654Approved by the President on Febuary 27, 2015AN ACT TO PREVENT, DETER AND ELIMINATE ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHING, AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8550, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE PHILIPPINE FISHERIES CODE OF 1998,” AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10089Approved by the President on May 13, 2010 Origin: Senate (SB01651 / HB06882) 14th CongressAN ACT CREATING THE PHILIPPINE RUBBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE TO DEVELOP THE PHILIPPINE RUBBER INDUSTRY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10068Approved by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 06, 2010 Origin: 14th Congress (Senate: SB03264 / House: HB07066)AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 10000Approved by the President on February 23, 2010 Origin: Senate (SB03431 / HB06095) 14th CongressAN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN AGRICULTURE AND AGRARIAN REFORM CREDIT AND FINANCING SYSTEM THROUGH BANKING INSTITUTIONSREPUBLIC ACT NO. 9700Approved by the President on August 07, 2009 Origin: Senate (SB02666 / HB04077) 14th CongressAN ACT STRENGTHENING THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM (CARP), EXTENDING THE ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ALL AGRICULTURAL LANDS, INSTITUTING NECESSARY REFORMS, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW OF 1988, AS AMENDED, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORREPUBLIC ACT NO. 9379Approved by the President on March 08, 2007 Origin: House (HB04067 / SB02522) 13th CongressAN ACT DEFINING HANDLINE FISHING, PROVIDING EFFECTIVE REGULATIONS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 9296Approved by the President on May 12, 2004 Origin: Senate (SB02691 / HB06587) 12th CongressAN ACT STRENGTHENING THE MEAT INSPECTION SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY, ORDAINING FOR THIS PURPOSE A "MEAT INSPECTION CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES" AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 9281Approved by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on March 30, 2004 Origin: 12th Congress (Senate: SB02677 / House: HB05817)AN ACT TO STRENGHTEN AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION IN THE PHILIPPINES BY EXTENDING THE EFFECTIVITY OF TAX INCENTIVES AND ITS MANDATED FUNDING SUPPORT, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE SECTIONS 109 AND 112 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8435REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8800Approved by the President on July 19, 2000 Origin: Senate (SB02033 / HB07613) 11th CongressAN ACT PROTECTING LOCAL INDUSTRIES BY PROVIDING SAFEGUARD MEASURES TO BE UNDERTAKEN IN RESPONSE TO INCREASED IMPORTS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOFREPUBLIC ACT NO. 8550Approved by the President on February 25, 1998 Origin: Senate (SB01708 / HB07366) 10th CongressAN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF THE FISHERIES AND AQUATIC RESOURCES, INTEGRATING ALL LAWS PERTINENT THERETO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 8532Approved by the President on February 23, 1998 Origin: Senate (SB02170 / HB04808) 10th CongressAN ACT STRENGTHENING FURTHER THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM (CARP), BY PROVIDING AUGMENTATION FUND THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION 63 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6657, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE CARP LAW OF 1988"REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8486Approved by the President on February 11, 1998 Origin: Senate (SB00556 / HB06861) 10th CongressAN ACT MERGING THE PHILIPPINE COTTON CORPORATION AND THE COTTON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INTO A COTTON DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, VESTING IT WITH REGULATORY POWERS AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSEREPUBLIC ACT NO. 8435Approved by President Fidel V. Ramos on December 22, 1997 Origin: 10th Congress (Senate: SB02245 / House: HB00002)AN ACT PRESCRIBING URGENT RELATED MEASURES TO MODERNIZE THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES SECTORS OF THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THEIR PROFITABILITY, AND PREPARE SAID SECTORS FOR THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION THROUGH AN ADEQUATE, FOCUSED AND RATIONAL DELIVERY OF NECESSARY SUPPORT SERVICES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 8178Approved by President Fidel V. Ramos on March 28, 1996 Origin: 10th Congress (Senate: SB01450 / House: HB06436)AN ACT REPLACING QUANTITATIVE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, EXCEPT RICE, WITH TARIFFS, CREATING THE AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS ENHANCEMENT FUND, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESREPUBLIC ACT NO. 8175Approved by the President on December 29, 1995 Origin: Senate (SB01157 / HB05201) 10th CongressAN ACT FURTHER AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO.1467, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THECHARTER OF THE PHILIPPINE CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION (PCIC), IN ORDER TO MAKE THE CROP INSURANCE SYSTEM MORE STABLE AND MORE BENEFICIAL TO THE FARMERS COVERED THEREBY AND FOR THE NATIONAL ECONOMYREPUBLIC ACT NO. 7900Approved by the President on February 23, 1995 Origin: House (HB09288 / SB01311) 9th CongressAN ACT TO PROMOTE THE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MARKETING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF HIGH-VALUE CROPS, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESFor more info visit atPhilippine Senate Committee On Agriculture and Food

It has only been two months when the news of India's capital, Delhi becoming the gas chamber has been scoring the headlines of news dailies and media channels and India was once again pressurized from the western countries to take binding commitments for reducing its carbon footprint. Although, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been strongly arguing the fact that India is just being victimized and it has a lesser role in producing pollutants creating global warming.SUSTAINABILITY AND NATURAL RESOURCES - FIINOVATIONDuring the HT Leadership Summit, the eminent economist, Mr. Lawrence Summers also backed PM saying that, “I think your Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) is right. The climate has gotten warmer and it is not because of India. Growth of emissions has been from industrial countries and not India. You're right in protesting against it”. India's stand on tackling the climate change issues is very serious and it has pledged ambitious goals for tackling the climate change issues through its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by introducing carbon tax on fossil fuel and reducing petroleum subsidy by 26%. India has developed its climate change policies for addressing the environmental concerns while meeting the growth needs and development ambitions of the country. The government has taken up an array of initiatives like setting up two national level funds dedicated funds for addressing the cost requirement to adopt cleaner technology in sectors such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries and water.Why The Badarpur Power Plant Must Shut DownAdditionally, the government has also introduced tax-free infrastructure bonds worth $794 million and has allocated $1.4 billion towards the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission aimed at the construction of 100GW of solar energy by 2020. Once these projects will be in place, India will be able to reduce its CO2 volume by almost 85 million tons per year. It has also allocated $31 million under the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency to save around 23 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE) and 98.5 million tons of CO2.We at Fiinovation feel India has full potential to utilize its natural resources for adopting clean and green technology to reduce its carbon emissions and create a sustainable economy for the citizens of the country.

Before saying anything in the affirmative or not, think about the question the country must ask: Is it in Canada's long-term interest to be "dictated" by U.S. policies?Recently, a group of prominent former Canadian parliamentarians and diplomats wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to end the extradition case against Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.They were right because it is in the country's national interest to do so. Resetting the China-Canada relationship would allow Canada to diversify its trade relationship and regain its sovereignty, both of which could enhance and sustain the country's long-term economic stability.The importance of the China-Canada relationship to the Canadian economy cannot be overstated. It was China's huge purchases of natural resources in 2008 that pulled Canada (and Australia) from the Deep Recession that buried its G7 partners by that year's financial crisis. China remained a major buyer of Canadian resources – commodities, agricultural products and fishery, resulting in the Asian country being Canada's second largest trade partner.Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her residence for the extradition hearing in Vancouver, Canada, January 20, 2020. /XinhuaIt was the importance of the Chinese market that changed China hawk former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's mind about the country. When first elected to the office in 2006, he was about to derail the economically sensible relationship built by previous Liberal governments, vowing not to "sell Canadian values for the almighty dollar." But he changed his mind when China was the only country that helped Canada from falling into a recession in 2008-09. A few years later, Harper even canceled all commitments at home and abroad so that he could travel to China to reset the China-Canada relationship which he derailed in his early years as prime minister by accusing China of stealing Canadian technology.Perhaps to strengthen his relationship resetting efforts, Harper sent the governor general, Canada's head of state, and a large business delegation to the Asian country to drum up trade and investment opportunities. The gestures paid off handsomely, resulting in signing big trade and investment deals, including the China National Offshore Oil Corporation's 15-billion-U.S.-dollar takeover of Alberta's Nexen Inc. in 2014.China could pull the Canadian economy out of the COVID-19 driven recession, estimated by Deloitte Insights, a consultancy, to contract between 4 and 5 percent in 2020. China, having practically controlled the spread of COVID-19, has reopened its economy earlier than other major economies.Manufacturing, for example, is almost operating at 90 percent capacity, shops and malls are beginning to reopen as is the country's public transportation and other sectors. The country's plan to spend massively on infrastructures and other economic enhancement projects would suggest China could be buying significant quantities of resources from around the world, including Canada.China's economic recovery packages prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to predict it is the only major economy bucking the world's economic downward trend, growing at 1 percent in 2020 and over 8 percent in 2021. In contrast, the global economy, U.S., UK, Japan and EU economies are expected to contract, respectively, by 4.9 percent, 8 percent, 8.3 percent, 5.5 percent and 10.2 percent. With Canada's major trade partners in a malaise not seen since the 1930s Great Depression, China might be the only major economy that could help Canada in reversing its downward economic trajectory.What is more, Canada's biggest trade partner, the U.S., has hardened its protectionist stance. President Trump reinstated a 10 percent tariff on Canadian aluminum as a way to protect the American industry. Since trade accounted for 40 percent of Canada's GDP and 75 percent of that is with America, a soft U.S. market and Trump's protectionist policies would pose a "severe blow" to the Canadian economy.If that weren't bad enough, corporate America practically "owns" Canada, controlling over 50 percent of the nation's total corporate assets or the economy, according to Statistics Canada figures. U.S. ownership of Canadian major industries – mining, automobile manufacturing, oil, retail trade, etc. – is even larger, estimated at well over 75 percent, practically making Canada a "branch of the U.S. economy."U.S. subsidiaries operating in Canada are subject to U.S. laws, culminating in truncating the Canadian economy: restricting research activities, infringing on trade, and producing resources largely to fuel the American economy. Major cutting-edge research takes place in the U.S.-based parent companies, pushing Canada behind in innovation and losing competitiveness. In addition, the U.S. blockade on Cuba barred U.S. companies in Canada from exporting to the communist island country, undermining Canadian sovereignty trade prospects.Huawei's exhibition booth during a press preview for the 2019 World 5G Convention in Beijing, China, November 20, 2019. /XinhuaOverly reliance on the U.S. for trade and investment has precluded Canada from forging independent monetary and foreign policies. Canadian monetary policies are largely influenced by U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate policies to prevent capital outflow and promote exports. With a few exceptions, Canadian foreign policies mirror or are similar to those of the U.S., like denouncing China's national security law on Hong Kong.It's true that U.S. investment and trade made Canada what it is today, bringing in new technology, capital, management methods and trade opportunities, thereby accelerating economic growth and development. But whether it is in Canada’s long-term interest to be “dictated” by U.S. policies is definitely the question the country must ask.The Canadian Confederation in 1867 was about charting the new country's own destiny, forging independent polices that are in the new country's best interests. However, huge injection of U.S. investment and "putting all eggs in one basket" on trade turned out to be a changing of "masters," creating vulnerability to U.S. laws and policies.Besides, the U.S. was not always a reliable trade partner. Although Canada has a free trade agreement with its southern neighbor, that did not stop the U.S. from imposing tariffs on Canadian lumber, aluminum, steel and a host of other products.President Trump was not the first or the last to promote the "America First" policy, he merely made it obvious. The U.S. slapped huge tariffs on Canadian lumber in 1982 because America's inefficient industry (relative to Canada) complained that the northern neighbor was "killing" it. It would therefore be naive to expect his successors will not act similarly.Furthermore, some legal experts claimed that the arrest of Ms. Meng was "abnormal" or violating the spirit of the extradition treaty in that few, if any, country has ever detained a foreign national for violating another country's sanction laws, particularly when sanctions were a unilateral decision that did not have international support. What's more, the sanction violators were usually fined, as with the ZTE case.To top it off, the evidence against Meng was circumstantial at best; the charge of fraud was based solely on her PowerPoint presentation to an HSBC executive. Besides, it was not clear that the bank would have incurred a risk.Last but not least, most if not all legal experts observed that Canada's attorney general/justice minister can intervene in Meng's case. Furthermore, Trudeau's claim of an independent judicial system rang "hollow" because he interceded in the SNC Lavalin corruption case, fearing the loss of thousands of jobs in his native Quebec.National interests and justice demand Meng should be freed. But sadly, that might not happen because of U.S. retaliation and domestic politics. Trump would penalize Canada with tariffs or other economically harmful measures. The prime minister's domestic political opponents would accuse him of "kowtowing" to China.Source:Why Canada should free Meng WanzhouAnalysis: What's behind Meng Wanzhou's extradition case?