Philippine steel, cement and other imported goods will introduce new regulations

According to the "Philippines star" reported on April 21st, the Philippine Department of trade and Industry Secretary Lopez recently said that considering the cement, steel and other building materials import quality problems occur frequently, and the Philippines recently frequent earthquakes on building materials put forward higher requirements, the trade ministry intends to introduce new management departments "order" (DAO), the implementation of more stringent regulations on the import of building materials and expand the sample, to ensure the quality of building materials imported. Steel, the new regulations will be abolished regardless of how much the value of the previous sampling three samples approach to take every 5000 tons of steel sampling of a new approach to the sample of 100, the new approach will be implemented within a period of two months. Cement, Department of trade and industry also changed the relevant provisions, requiring all imported cement required to meet the Philippines criteria and obtain the relevant license, and all the cement importers required to pay the minimum margin of 20 million pesos, in order to improve the access threshold