Attached Agencies
The following are attached agencies of the Department of Trade and Industry:
- Board of Investment
- Center for International Trade Exposition and Missions
- Intellectual Property Office
- National Development Corporation
- Optical Media Board
- Philippine Economic Zone Authority
- Philippine National Construction Corporation
- Philippine Trade Training Center
- Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines
- Small Business Corporation
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.
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