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                    [Title] => Favila backs beverage firms’ proposal to import sugar
                    [Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila is amenable to the proposal of local beverage producers to allow them to import sugar on their own  to cover their requirements.


"I am all for lessening the cost of intermediation and doing away with the middlemen. I have no objection to that (direct importation of sugar by beverage makers)," Favila said.

Helping lower intermediation cost would cushion the impact of the continued rise in world sugar prices.
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In an interview with newsmen, Alfredo M. Yao of Asiawide Refreshments Corp. argued that food processors should be allowed to import on their own to enable them to lower their manufacturing cost.

"Government should allow end-users to import directly from abroad. At present, we have to buy at the market since we cannot import," Yao said.
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"I am all for lessening the cost of intermediation and doing away with the middlemen. I have no objection to that (direct importation of sugar by beverage makers)," Favila said.

Helping lower intermediation cost would cushion the impact of the continued rise in world sugar prices.
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"Government should allow end-users to import directly from abroad. At present, we have to buy at the market since we cannot import," Yao said.
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