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| Kagawaran ng Kalakalan at Industriya | |
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| Formed | June 23, 1898; 127 years ago (1898-06-23) |
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| Headquarters | Trade and Industry Building, 361Gil Puyat Avenue,Bel-Air,Makati,Philippines 14°33.6′N121°1.8′E / 14.5600°N 121.0300°E /14.5600; 121.0300 |
| Employees | 2,204 (2024)[2] |
| Annual budget |  PH₱7.17 billion (2025)[3] |
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| Website | www |
TheDepartment of Trade and Industry (DTI;Filipino:Kagawaran ng Kalakalan at Industriya) is theexecutive department of thePhilippine government responsible for the advancement, promotion, governance, regulation, management and growth of industry and trade.
Department Order No. 19-18, s. 2019, laid out the organizational structure of the department into the following functional groups: Competitiveness and Innovation Group (CIG); Consumer Protection Group (CPG); Industry Development and Trade Policy Group (IDTPG); Management Services Group (MSG); Regional Operations Group (ROG); and the Trade Promotions Group (TPG).
Itshierarchical organization includes 27 foreign trade service posts, 17 regional offices (including Negros Island Region), 87 provincial/city/area offices, 12 bureaus, 4 attached agencies, 7 attached corporations, and 8 services offices.
The department is headed by a Secretary (equivalent to Minister) and assisted by Undersecretaries (equivalent to Deputy Minister) which take charge of certain sub-department each, and Assistant Secretaries which serve as specialized assistants of the Secretary.
On September 6, 1901, thePhilippine Commission established the Department of Commerce (and Police) of theInsular Government.Luke Edward Wright was its first commissioner from 1901 to 1904. He was succeeded byWilliam Cameron Forbes, futureGovernor-General of the Philippines, who served as its commissioner from 1904 through 1909.[4]
After the Philippine Commission was abolished, the Department of Commerce and Police was reorganized as the Department of Commerce and Communications, enacted by thePhilippine Legislature in November 1916 and became fully effective on January 15, 1917.[5]Dionisio Jakosalem was appointed as the department's secretary and Cayetano Lavadia as its undersecretary.[6]
AfterWorld War II, PresidentManuel Roxas issuedExecutive Order (EO) No. 94 on October 4, 1947, creating the Department of Commerce and Industry (DCI).[7] Cornelio Balmaceda, a much sought-afterprofessor ofeconomics and director of the Bureau of Commerce (BOC), was appointed acting secretary of the newly created Department of Commerce and Industry.
Prior toEO 94, the Bureau of Commerce was tasked to develop and promote the country's trade and industry, under the overall supervision of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, as stipulated byAct 4007 by the Philippine Legislature, enacted on December 5, 1932.
By 1972, the DCI had grown into a big organization with 10 regular bureaus and 22 agencies under its direct supervision. The DCI was mandated to promote, develop, expand, regulate and control of foreign and domestic trade and industry, as well as tourism.
To have closer supervision and to ensure more effective delivery of services, PresidentFerdinand E. Marcos issuedPresidential Decree (PD) 189 on May 11, 1973, creating the Department of Tourism to handle all tourism-related matters.[8] A year later on June 21, 1974, Marcos issuedPD 488 creating the Department of Industry whose principal function was to promote and enhance the growth of the country's existing and thriving industries.[9]
On June 2, 1975, the Department of Trade was created underPD 721 to pursue efforts of the government toward strengthening the country's socio-economic development, particularly in the area of commercial activities.[10] A key strategy of the new department was vigorous export promotion to generate much needed foreign exchange. A Bureau of Foreign Trade was also particularly established to push for domestic trade and marketing programs.
In the early 1980s, this goal of national economic development required the need to hew industrial promotion efforts with the expansion of Philippine trade overseas. This resulted in the creation of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) on July 27, 1981, which took over the functions of the subsequently abolished Departments of Trade and of Industry.
Drastic changes followed after the1986 EDSA Revolution. PresidentCorazon Aquino signedExecutive Order No. 133 on February 27, 1987, effectively reorganizing the Ministry of Trade and Industry and renaming it the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).[11] This was further strengthened by the issuance ofExecutive Order 292 (Administrative Code of 1987).[12] Other latter legislations have also amended its functions and structures.
The department is headed by theSecretary of Trade and Industry (Philippines) with the following seven undersecretaries and five assistant secretaries:
The following are attached to the Department of Trade and Industry:
Attached agencies are actually sub-agencies of any national departments of the national government organization in the Philippines in which creation is established by special laws and its operation is independent of its mother unit. The mother unit only serves as supervisory on these special attached agencies.
