President Gloria M. Arroyo last April 12 signed Executive Order No. 875, which authorizes the Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) to auction off to interested private traders the right to import the commodity under a tax subsidy scheme, by which the government assumes the cost of duties and taxes of the covered imports.
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