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According to PEZA Director General Lilia B. de Lima, investors continue to be attracted to the special economic zones because of the perks they enjoy including duty-free importation of capital equipment and raw materials.


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This was the offer dangled by the brokers’ association that lobbied for the passage of the new law and the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) that is drafting the implementing rules and regulation that enforces the new law.


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                    [Title] => Nov exports grew by 18%, says Purisima
                    [Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Cesar V. Purisima confirmed yesterday that the country’s export performance actually grew by 18 percent in November last year instead of the earlier reported four-percent decline.


According to Purisima, the government is looking at the $716-million export receipts recorded by the Automated Export Documentation System that was not included in the National Statistics Office (NSO) export report.


When the NSO reported a decline in export figures early this month, electronics manufacturers and exporters expressed surprise over the decline.

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"Toshiba is looking for strategies on how it can broaden its penetration in the domestic market," Roxas said.


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The call was made by Dr. Myrna S. Austria of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in a research paper that reviewed the performance of the Philippine economy’s performance under a globalizing trade environment.


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Trade facilitation key in hitting this year’s exports growth goal

By Philexport | September 27, 2015 - 10:00am

Exporters are working to achieve the eight to 10-percent exports growth target this year amid softening of major overseas...

Business

Investments in ecozones surge 355% to P3.183B in January

By Marianne V. Go | March 23, 2005 - 12:00am

The Philippine Export Zone Authority (PEZA) reported yesterday that capital inflows into the special economic zones surged by 355 percent to P3.183 billion in January from only P699 million in the same period...

Business

SMEs may get exemption from ‘red tape’ in Brokers Act

August 16, 2004 - 12:00am

Small and medium-sized exporters may get exempted from the added red tape in the processing of export and import documents embodied in the Customs Brokers Act (RA 9280). This was the offer dangled by the brokers’...

Business

Nov exports grew by 18%, says Purisima

By Marianne V. Go | January 29, 2004 - 12:00am

Trade and Industry Secretary Cesar V. Purisima confirmed yesterday that the country’s export performance actually grew by 18 percent in November last year instead of the earlier reported four-percent decline. According...

Business

Toshiba eyes RP expansion

November 18, 2003 - 12:00am

Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II reported yesterday that Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines) Inc. (TIP) is exploring the possibility of producing more product lines in the country. "Toshiba...

Business

Diversification of RP exports urged

November 15, 2002 - 12:00am

An economist of a government think-tank group has called for the diversification of Philippine exports for the sector to acquire a bigger role in over-all economic growth. Diversification will wean Philippine exports...

Business