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BACOLOD CITY — Stakeholders of the country's sugar industry expressed concern over the recent announcement of US President Donald Trump that he will be imposing a 17 percent reciprocal tariff on imported goods from the Philippines.

Negros Occidental Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo said that the steep tariff will have a drastic effect on the sugar industry.

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