Department of

Trade and
Industry
 THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY,
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS DEPARTMENT SHALL
BE THE PRIMARY COORDINATIVE, PROMOTIVE,

About the
FACILITATIVE AND REGULATORY ARM OF
GOVERNMENT FOR THE COUNTRY’S TRADE,

DTI INDUSTRY AND INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES. IT SHALL

ACT AS CATALYST FOR INTENSIFIED PRIVATE SECTOR
ACTIVITY IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE AND SUSTAIN
ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH: (A) A
COMPREHENSIVE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH STRATEGY,
Mandate (B) A PROGRESSIVE AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE
Executive Order 133 (1987) LIBERALIZATION AND DEREGULATION PROGRAM, AND
(C) POLICIES DESIGNED FOR THE EXPANSION AND
DIVERSIFICATION OF TRADE, BOTH DOMESTIC AND
FOREIGN.

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Construction Timeline

1898 1901 1972 1973 1975

DTI  had its Department of DCI had grown into a Department of Deparment of Trade
beginnings on June23 Commerce and big organization Industry
1898 when Pres. Industry with10 regular bureaus
Aguinaldo formed fo and 22 agencies under
four government its direct supervision
agencies, namely the
Department of Navy,
Commerce,
Agriculture and

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Manufacturing
Construction Timeline

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1981 1987 2006

Ministry of Trade and Department of Trade

Industry and Industry

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 (1) Plan, implement and coordinate activities
of the government related to trade, industry
Powers and and investments;
(2) Promote, initiate, or conduct Annual Trade
Functions and Industry Development Planning
Conferences between government and the
private sector, to be held at the beginning of
the third quarter of the budget year;
(3) Build up and maintain the currency of the
trade and industry data base of the
Department’s information system through a
continuing and well coordinated program of
data search and information processing;
(4) Develop and maintain an integrated
computerized marketing information system
for trade, industry and investments with a
domestic and international scope

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 (5) Encourage and support the formation
of People’s Economic Councils at
Powers and regional, provincial and municipal levels
as well as other trade, industry and
Functions consumer protection institutions or
associations;
(6) Formulate and implement programs to
strengthen industries adversely affected
by the economic crisis, particularly those
that have a good probability of attaining
financial viability;
(7) Formulate plans and programs that
shall encourage projects which effect
dispersal of industries to the rural areas,
promote manufactured goods for export,
and develop small and medium scale
industries;

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 (h) Upgrade and develop the manufacture
of local capital goods and precision
Powers and machinery components;
(i) Formulate and administer policies and
Functions guidelines for the investment priorities
plan and the delivery of investment
incentives;
(j) Assist the investment one-stop action
center in pursuing the latter’s objective of
providing under one roof all investment
assistance services of the government, in
accordance with established policies and
guidelines;
(k) Coordinate efforts in formulating long
term industry sectoral plans with the
private sector;
 (l) Formulate the appropriate mechanics to
guide and manage the transfer of
Powers and appropriate industrial technology in the
country;
Functions (m) Formulate country and product export
strategies which will guide the export
promotion and development thrusts of the
government;
(n) Implement programs and activities geared
towards the overseas promotion of Philippine
exports in overseas markets;
(o) Take the primary role in negotiating and
reviewing existing international trade
agreements, particularly those affecting
commodity quotas limiting existing exports of
Philippine products to determine programs
for renegotiations of more favorable terms;

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 (p) Promote domestic trade, marketing and
distribution to ensure the rational,
Powers and economical and steady flow of commodities
from producing and/or marketing centers to
Functions areas in short supply;
(q) Promote, develop, regulate and accredit
repair and service enterprises in accordance
with existing laws, Executive Order No. 709
(1981) notwithstanding;
(r) Formulate and implement regulations for
the protection of industrial property rights
and in particular, patents and trademarks;

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 (s) After due notice and hearing, establish
orderly marketing arrangements for locally
Powers and produced and imported manufactured
goods, and for raw materials used by
Functions manufacturing and construction;
(t) Administratively adjudicate and impose
reasonable fines and penalties for violation
of existing trade and industry laws;
(u) Prepare, for consideration of the
Monetary Board, proposed programs in the
commercial banking sector for directing
commercial lending facilities towards
priority areas of commercial and industrial
development, as well as coordinate
government direct funding and financial
guarantee programs to achieve trade and
industry growth;

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 (v) Create, in cooperation and coordination
with the Department of Labor and
Powers and Employment, a center which will provide
assistance to the public relative to industrial
Functions relations;
(w) Issue subpoena and
subpoena  duces  tecum  to compel the
attendance of witnesses and the production
of the necessary information, papers and
documents which it may deem necessary in
the exercise of its powers and functions;

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 (x) Prescribe and enforce compliance with
such rules and regulations as may be
Powers and necessary to implement the intent and
provisions of this Executive Order, which
Functions rules and regulations shall take effect
immediately following their publication in
two newspapers of general circulation in
the Philippines;
(y) Perform such other functions as may be
necessary or incidental in carrying into
effect the provisions of this Executive Order
and as may be provided by law.

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 the Secretary of the Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI), the quasi-
Quasi-Judicial judicial agency designated by Article

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1658 of RA 7394 to entertain appeals
Function from the adverse decisions and orders
of the CAO

CONSUMER ACT. ARTICLE 159. CONSUMER COMPLAINTS. — THE

CONCERNED DEPARTMENT MAY COMMERCE AN INVESTIGATION
UPON PETITION OR UPON LETTER-COMPLAINT FROM ANY
CONSUMER: PROVIDED, THAT, UPON A FINDING BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF A PRIMA FACIE VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISIONS
OF THIS ACT OR ANY RULE OR REGULATION PROMULGATED
UNDER ITS AUTHORITY, IT MAY MOTU PROPRIO OR UPON
VERIFIED COMPLAINT COMMERCE FORMAL ADMINISTRATIVE
ACTION AGAINST ANY PERSON WHO APPEARS RESPONSIBLE
THEREFOR. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES
FOR SYSTEMATICALLY LOGGING IN, INVESTIGATING AND
RESPONDING TO CONSUMER COMPLAINTS INTO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMER POLICIES, RULES AND
REGULATIONS, ASSURING AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE SIMPLE AND
EASY ACCESS ON THE PART OF THE CONSUMER TO SEEK REDRESS
FOR HIS GRIEVANCES.

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 E.O. 913

Quasi- ARTICLE II - RULE-MAKING POWER

SEC. 2. Implementing rules and regulations.

Legislative – The Minister may promulgate rules and

regulations to implement the provision and

Function
intent of “trade and industry laws.” This
power shall extend to the implementation of
the objectives, policies, international
agreements, international grants, and the
approved plans, projects, and activities of
the Ministry.

SEC. 18. Implementing rules and

regulations. – The Minister shall promulgate
rules and regulations to implement this
Executive Order which shall take effect as
provided under Section 2 hereof.

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6 Major Functional Group

OFFICE OF THE INDUSTRY INDUSTRY CONSUMER

SECRETARY (OSEC) DEVELOPMENT PROMOTIONS PROTECTION GROUP
GROUP (IDG)  GROUP (IPG) (CPG)
provides full support
and efficient is in-charge of promotes domestic is in-charge of the
coordination of investment promotion and international trade enforcement of laws to
information to the DTI in activities critical to and commerce. protect consumers,
Secretary and among the DTI’s trade and consumer education
the functional groups industry development and formation of
of the Department. program. consumer groups

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6 Major Functional Group

REGIONAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES

OPERATIONS GROUP GROUP (MSG)
(ROG)
delivers effective, adequate,
is responsible for the and timely services to clients in
field operations of the the shortest possible time at the
DTI in the regions and least cost. It also provides
provinces. industry policies and
coordinates and monitors the
implementation of the operating
plans and programs of the
agenda.

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Attached Agencies
Intellectual Property
Board of Investment Office of the Philippines
(IPOPHL)

Design Center of the Center for International

Philippines (DCP) Trade Expositions and
Missions (CITEM)

Philippine Trade Construction Industry

Training Center (PTTC) Authority of the
Philippines (CIAP)

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Attached Agencies

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