The NTA Regulation Department conducted the orientation and training seminar of the 2018 Revised Trading Rules and Regulations on Locally Grown Leaf Tobacco on March 3. This was held for the first time with the participants, licensed field canvassers and representatives from leaf buying stations in tobacco-growing provinces, joining via teleconferencing.
The annual orientation was held, as in preceding years, in the NTA Candon Branch cluster for Region 1 and Abra leaf buyers, and another schedule for Region 2 cluster which was usually held in Ilagan City. All leaf buyers in the two clusters participated in the virtual meeting.
In a message, Administrator Robert Victor G. Seares Jr. stressed on the proper accomplishment of trading forms, such as the Purchase Invoice Voucher and Certificate of Purchase, to achieve the accuracy of tobacco deliveries sold by farmers, as this will serve as basis for the share of tobacco excise taxes for each beneficiary LGU.
Regulation Department Manager Atty. Rohbert A. Ambros opened the seminar with the discussion on the legal basis of the Trading Rules and Regulations (TPRO). Chief Tobacco Production and Regulation Officers Engr. Alex L. Borje and Eleanor A. Rapanut discussed the salient features of the trading rules and regulations, and the system and procedure in the proper accomplishment and reporting vital trading forms, respectively.
Primitivo M. Abalos Jr., Senior TPRO, discussed the violations in the conduct of trading and the corresponding penalties. An open forum followed after the presentation.
Deputy Administrator for Operations Dr. Roberto R. Bonoan in his closing message reminded all personnel involved in the trading to observe health and safety protocol being imposed by the local government units in their areas.
According to Engr. Borje, the Branch Offices will conduct a localized meeting on trading rules for field canvassers and trading operators who were not able to participate in the online orientation seminar. A similar orientation will also be conducted for all Tobacco Production and Regulation Officers in the Branch Offices next week.
[Photo: Miechelle D. Riano]