The Senate blue ribbon committee is set to launch another investigation of the controversy surrounding SO No. 6 amid suspicion that this was issued to justify the entry of a shipment of imported sugar six days before the supposed importation order.
In August last year, the SRA was embroiled in another Senate blue ribbon investigation over SRA’s “unauthorized” release of SO4, which allowed the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar into the country.
Six days later on Feb. 15, the SRA issued SO6, which allowed the importation of 440,000 metric tons of sugar, and which states that the SRA will only begin accepting applications for five calendar dates from the date of effectivity of the order, or until Feb. 18. She also cited the grumblings among other stakeholders in the sugar industry who purportedly raised questions of “equity and fairness” in SO6, including how the Department of Agriculture supposedly approved the volume of import allocation without any restriction.
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