The Philippine Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship is a

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of the

Senate of the Philippines The Senate of the Philippines () is the upper house of Congress of the Philippines, Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, with the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives as the lower house. The ...

Jurisdiction

According to the Rules of the Senate, the committee handles all matters relating to: * Domestic and foreign trade and private corporations *

Micro, small and medium enterprises Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by many national agencies and international organizat ...

(MSMEs) *

Social enterprise A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being. This may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for co-owners. Social enterprises ha ...

s * Promotion of

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

and the regulation of entrepreneurial practice *

Patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

, copyrights, trade names and trademarks * Standards, weights, measures and designs * Quality control, control and stabilization of prices of commodities * Consumer protection * Handicrafts and cottage industries * Marketing of commodities * The

Department of Trade and Industry Department of Trade and Industry may refer to: Current * Department of Trade and Industry (Isle of Man) * Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines) * Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (South Africa) Former * Department of Trade ...

* The

Optical Media Board The Optical Media Board (OMB), formerly known as the Videogram Regulatory Board (VRB), is a Philippine government agency that is part of the Office of the President of the Philippines, responsible for regulating the production, use and distribut ...

* The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines * The

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* The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Investment and Economic Affairs

Members, 18th Congress

Based on the Rules of the Senate, the Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship has 9 members. The President Pro Tempore, the Majority Floor Leader, and the Minority Floor Leader are ''ex officio'' members. Here are the members of the committee in the 18th Congress as of September 24, 2020: Committee secretary: Jingle Concon-Allam

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Trade Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. Traders generally negotiate through a medium of cr ...

Jurisdiction

Members, 18th Congress

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