by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | DTI Updates, Headlines
The Depart5ment of Trade and Industry (DTI) Project Management Team for Business Registration (PMT-BR) developed a single portal to incorporate services from the Business Name Registration System (BNRS) to Philippine Business Registry System (PBRS).
As initial implementation, online services in BNRS which are available to Public like New Application, Request for Renewal, Online Payment, Download Certificate, TRN inquiry and Register Trade mark link will be incorporated to PBRS
DTI encourages BN registrants to access the Single Portal website, www.business.gov.ph, to register their business name end-to-end.
For more information on this system, BN registrants may call the DTI Call Center through 751.3330 and Business Name Registration System (BNRS) Helpdesk at 751.3142, 751.3259 and 751.3257. They may also email PMT-BR at br@dti.gov.ph.
by admin | Feb 28, 2017 | DTI Updates, National News
Following the successful state visits of President Duterte in Japan and Prime Minister Abe in the Philippines, Japanese bank Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank (OKB) initiated an investment forum in the Philippines recently (22, February) OKB is the first Japanese regional bank in the Philippines to successfully secure a license to operate as representative bank from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) during their anniversary celebration.
According to Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez, the forum gathered 140 Japanese companies, 30 percent of which are SMEs, the largest mission to date from Japan this year. Following the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Philippines, there have been five missions to the country both from Kanto and Kansai regions. “With all these missions to the Philippines at the first two months of the year alone, DTI is confident that the Philippines is getting a growing and larger share of the migration of Japanese SMEs to other countries. This is important as Japanese SMEs with decades of specialized technology under their belts can contribute to value added manufacturing, tourism, agribusiness, deepening and expanding our inventories of products and services, closing gaps and completing loops in our supply chain”.
“We hope Ogaki Bank remains partners with the Philippine government in pushing the country’s growth agenda of sustaining the momentum of development for inclusive growth and shared prosperity for all Filipinos,” said Sec. Lopez.
OKB is headquartered in the Tokai region where most sizeable investors to the Philippines such as Ibiden, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Brother Industries Limited are also from.
“The Philippines traversed different prefectures across Japan promoting trade and investment opportunities,” said Sec. Lopez, highlighting initial touchpoints in Tokai, a region with the highest concentration of Filipinos, as well as the base of major Japanese companies with sizeable investments in the Philippines.
With both the Kanto and Kansai sides of the Japanese peninsula deploying organized business delegations in the Philippines, DTI efforts in Japan are bearing fruit, according to the trade chief.
Prior to this forum, Secretary Lopez also delivered his keynote speech at the Bank of Tokyo MUFJ and Security Bank‘s first business matching forum which concluded over 200 business matching meetings.
It will be the Philippines turn to conduct an investment mission to Tokyo on February 28 as economic officials from DTI, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), ASEAN Japan Centre (AJC) and Philippine Society Japan Inc., and Philippines-Japan Economic Cooperation Committee, Inc. (PHILJECC) – Japan-Philippines Economic Cooperation Committee (JPECC) brief more Japanese investors.
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by admin | Feb 25, 2017 | DTI Updates, Major Events
February 24, 2017. LGU-Loon conducts Planning Session on Earn and Learn Vocational and Entrepreneurial Skills (ELVES Program) with DTI, DICT, TESDA, DSWD, DOLE and other LGU officials at the Negosyo Center. (Photo by Roser Ann Dumanat, Business Counselor-Negosyo Center Loon)
by admin | Feb 24, 2017 | DTI Updates, Headlines
The Department of Trade and Industry Bohol Provincial Office through its Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (DTI-CARP BPO) in partnership with the Jagna Sustainable Micro-Enterprise Development Unit (JASMED) of LGU-Jagna conducted a Values-Based Entrepreneurship Training to its 7 assisted micro-entrepreneurs in their locality on February 22, 2017. The said activity aims to improve the entrepreneurial competencies and skills of these micro entrepreneurs to push them forward to become more sustainable and competitive. More so, DTI through its SME Roving Academy, conducted a 2 day Financial Management Training on February 16-17,2017 to 13 assisted micro-enterprises of LGU-Jagna JASMED. (MTTay DTI-BPO)
by admin | Feb 22, 2017 | DTI Updates, Headlines
The 31st Meeting of the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration (HLTF-EI) convenes today to discuss and recommend mechanisms that will support and strengthen the implementation of the AEC Blueprint 2025 towards greater regional cohesion and integration.
The 31st HLTF-EI Meeting gathers ASEAN high-ranking trade officials in consultations on how the region can effectively address emerging challenges in a dynamic global environment. The Philippines will be represented by Dr. Ceferino S. Rodolfo, Undersecretary for Industry Development of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Managing Head of the Board of Investments.
“The ASEAN High Level Task Force is considered a visionary group that assesses the progress of the region’s economic integration and proposes measures that will be submitted to the ministers who, in turn, will discuss these at the ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat in March 2017. The meeting gives us the opportunity to consult each other on several matters to ensure that the benefits of integration are fully realized and shared by everyone in ASEAN. Strengthening compliance and monitoring our AEC commitments, and finding ways to deepen engagement with our stakeholders in designing and implementing regional strategies and initiatives are some of the topics we will focus on during the meeting,” Undersecretary Ceferino added.
In light of the substantial progress of ASEAN’s economic integration, the AEC Blueprint 2025 requires a stronger undertaking in the presence of wider competition and vast opportunities in goods, services, skilled labor, investments and capital.
“Our recommendations will take into account the need to implement both liberalization and cooperation measures and move forward the implementation of integration activities articulated in the ASEAN Economic Community’s 2025 Vision,” Undersecretary Rodolfo stated.
“The Philippines will also be taking to the HLTF the statement of its Civil Society Organization on how ASEAN integration should truly be people-centered, environmentally-conscious, and equitable.”
The meeting’s agenda includes the presentation of the Philippines’ economic priority deliverables for its ASEAN 2017 Chairmanship with the theme “Partnering for Change, Engaging the World”, as well as the commemorative events and activities to celebrate ASEAN’s 50th Founding Anniversary.
“For the Philippines, priority is in pushing for an ASEAN that is driven by inclusiveness and innovation,” the PH HLTF-EI Lead highlighted. “One measure of success for this hosting is in terms of how many Filipinos and ASEAN nationals are we able to lift out of poverty through the policies and cooperative projects that we are able to introduce, institutionalize, and implement during the hosting year”, he added.
“Inclusive, Innovation-Led Growth,” AEC’s thematic priority for 2017, sets the tone for the Philippines’ agenda on increasing trade and investments, integrating MSMEs in the Global Value Chains (GVCs), and developing an innovation-driven economy. This includes the proposal to establish a more effective tool for measuring trade facilitation; launching of a pathfinder initiative by adopting self-certification for MSMEs; leading the way forward on trade in services through a modern ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement (ATISA); developing a peer review monitoring mechanism for AEC commitments; creating linkages between MSMEs and MNEs using the Inclusive Business framework; inclusivity of Women and Entrepreneurship; adoption of a declaration on innovation; and, the launch of the landmark ASEAN Roll-on Roll-off (RO-RO) Scheme. The Philippines’ agenda fully supports ASEAN in its Golden Jubilee year with specific actions that promote deeper and meaningful engagement with stakeholders and provide steps towards regional integration and cooperation.
The HLTF-EI is composed of ASEAN’s Trade Vice Ministers from the ten ASEAN economies and functions primarily as an advisory body to the economic ministers of the ASEAN member states.
Its primary responsibility is to ensure that the 10 ASEAN economies are on-track and on-time with the plans and programs intended to realize regional economic integration and achieve the vision of an ASEAN Economic Community. The 31st HLTF-EI meeting will be held from 15-16 February in Manila.
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by admin | Feb 22, 2017 | DTI Updates, Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Procter and Gamble (P&G) signed an agreement that will help micro entrepreneurs develop their business skills, and gain access to start-up capital.
A program for micro-entrepreneurs, which is also one of the key priorities in the current trade agenda, the agreement “P&G Angat Kita Program” is designed to help sari-sari storeowners and other micro-entrepreneurs advance their skills through seminars provided by the agency’s Negosyo Centers.
“This agreement is a huge lift for our micro entrepreneurs especially that we are targeting those who are at the bottom of the pyramid. We are a step closer to achieving the trabaho at negosyo agenda of the administration,” Operations Group Supervising Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya said of the signing.
The “P&G Angat Kita Program” will also help micro entrepreneurs gain access to start-up capital in the form of goods or products and network linkage micro entrepreneurs need to help grow, maintain businesses and lift their current status.
The agreement will also provide a P2,500 worth of P&G start-up package after successfully finishing a basic merchandising seminar in DTI’s Negosyo Centers to 1,000 initial participants of the program. In total, there are 448 Negosyo Centers operating since its inception in 2014.
In line with the Republic Act No. 10644 or the Go Negosyo Act, the DTI-ROG launched Negosyo Centers nationwide to help MSMEs in providing access to information, business name registration, access to finance, access to market and access to training.
DTI and P&G target to cover 20,000 to 30,000 micro entrepreneurs nationwide, after the initial launching in Metro Manila, including the cities of Manila, Mandaluyong, Makati, Marikina and Quezon City.
“This is a welcome agreement for us. After the launching of the Pondo sa Pagbabago at Pag-asenso or P3, we hope that more industry partners link up with DTI to come up with Business Models specially for budding micro-entrepreneurs,” Maglaya added.
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