Manufacturers eye price hike in canned sardines

By Bella Cariaso

Oct 08, 2022 12:08 am

MANUFACTURERS have filed separate petitions before the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to allow them to increase the price of canned sardines by three to five pesos per tin.

'The cost inputs are rising by about 18 percent. Most of the requests that have been filed at the DTI for an adjustment in prices is from about P3 to P5 per tin,' said Francisco 'Bombit' Buencamino, executive director, Canned Sardines Associations of the Philippines.

In this photo taken on February 25, 2009, Filipino cannery workers process sardines at the Mega Fishing Corporation in southern Zamboanga City on February 25, 2009. AFP PHOTO / THERENCE KOH

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