Tag: export competitiveness
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Government Reconsiders Cocochem Sale as Global Market Shifts
Overview: Reassessing a Strategic Asset The government is reexamining its long-standing plan to privatize United Coconut Chemicals Inc., commonly known as Cocochem. Once positioned as a straightforward privatization move, the plan now sits at the crossroads of global demand for coconut-based products, national economic strategy, and the practical implications of maintaining or selling a strategically…
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Textile Supply Chain Relief: Govt Drops 14 QCOs on Intermediate Goods as Industry Hopes for More Rollbacks
Overview: A Targeted Easing of Intermediaries The government has announced the rollback of 14 quantitative control orders (QCOs) on intermediate goods used in the textile value chain. This move follows an internal assessment that the existing mandate—enforcing standards on intermediaries and raw materials rather than only on finished goods—was creating unnecessary operational complexities for manufacturers.…