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[Title] => WTO forges landmark deal to boost global trade
[Summary] => A deal to boost global trade has been approved by the World Trade Organization’s 159 member economies for the first time in nearly two decades, keeping alive the possibility that a broader agreement to create a level playing field for rich and poor countries can be reached in the future.
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[Title] => New investments
[Summary] => With prospects getting better and better for PLDT’s fixed line business and the continuing profitability of its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, PLDT management is starting to look at possible new investments and reviving old prospects.
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[Title] => Cancun in focus
[Summary] => While everybody is tuned in to what’s the latest in the political front, which I say is very entertaining at the least, our government negotiators are busy preparing for the 5th World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting which will be held in Cancun, Mexico from Sept. 9-14.
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[Title] => Sugar production seen to hit 10-yr high
[Summary] => The country’s sugar production for cropyear (CY) 2002-2003 ending this August is expected to hit a 10-year production high of 2.13 million metric tons (MT), making the Philippines self-sufficient for the first time in more than a decade.
This CY’s sugar output is 12.7 percent higher than CY 2001-2002’s 1.89 million MT – more than enough to meet domestic requirements and its export commitments under the US sugar program.
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[Title] => Roxas urges WTO to understand RP’s plight
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Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II is urging members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the difficulty faced by developing-member countries such as the Philippines in implementing trade agreements.
Speaking before the two-day APEC meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT), Roxas expressed concern about the agenda being set for the next round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations.
The Philippines and other developing country members of the WTO, Roxas said, "face very real proble
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[Title] => Roxas urges WTO to understand RP’s plight
[Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II is urging members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the difficulty faced by developing-member countries such as the Philippines in implementing trade agreements.
Speaking before the two-day APEC meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT), Roxas expressed concern about the agenda being set for the next round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations.
The Philippines and other developing country members of the WTO, Roxas said, "face very real problems
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[Title] => NFA to import additional rice
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The National Food Authority plans to bring in from between 200,000 to 300,000
metric tons of imported rice between June and July this year on top of the
300,000-ton rice importation already in the pipeline.
Of the 200,000 to 300,000 tons only 95,000 tons will be purchased via a public
tender. The rest will be through government-to-government transactions.
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[Title] => Asean countries back RP in trade war with Australia
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Member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have
committed to support the Philippines in its trade war with Australia.
This developed as Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara announced that the
government is adopting a policy of 'progressive reduction' on imports from
Australia. During the last five years, Australia has enjoyed an average $572
million trade surplus.
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[Title] => Angara renews call for special treatment for developing countries
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Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara reiterated yesterday his call for a more
meaningful special and differential treatment (S&D) for developing
countries, as World Trade Organization (WTO0 member-countries return to the
negotiating table and start the long process of coming up with a new
multilateral free trade agreement.
Angara also revealed that a new office under the Department of Agriculture --
the Trade Remedies Office -- will be created to address complaints involving
anti-dumping and implementation of countervailing duties.
He added that the DA is working closely
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[Title] => DA acts on dumping of chicken legs
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After filing a trade complaint against Belgium with the World Trade
Organization and threatening a similar action against Australia, the Department
of Agriculture is now eyeing a new adversary after it banned imports of leg
quarters and other chicken parts from United States, claiming that the parts
are being 'dumped' here.
Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara said that the move was in response to a
growing clamor from the local poultry industry to put an end to the dumping of
leg quarters from the US.
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[Summary] => With prospects getting better and better for PLDT’s fixed line business and the continuing profitability of its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, PLDT management is starting to look at possible new investments and reviving old prospects.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => Sugar production seen to hit 10-yr high
[Summary] => The country’s sugar production for cropyear (CY) 2002-2003 ending this August is expected to hit a 10-year production high of 2.13 million metric tons (MT), making the Philippines self-sufficient for the first time in more than a decade.
This CY’s sugar output is 12.7 percent higher than CY 2001-2002’s 1.89 million MT – more than enough to meet domestic requirements and its export commitments under the US sugar program.
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[Title] => Roxas urges WTO to understand RP’s plight
[Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II is urging members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the difficulty faced by developing-member countries such as the Philippines in implementing trade agreements.
Speaking before the two-day APEC meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT), Roxas expressed concern about the agenda being set for the next round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations.
The Philippines and other developing country members of the WTO, Roxas said, "face very real proble
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[Title] => Roxas urges WTO to understand RP’s plight
[Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II is urging members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the difficulty faced by developing-member countries such as the Philippines in implementing trade agreements.
Speaking before the two-day APEC meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT), Roxas expressed concern about the agenda being set for the next round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations.
The Philippines and other developing country members of the WTO, Roxas said, "face very real problems
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[Title] => NFA to import additional rice
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The National Food Authority plans to bring in from between 200,000 to 300,000
metric tons of imported rice between June and July this year on top of the
300,000-ton rice importation already in the pipeline.
Of the 200,000 to 300,000 tons only 95,000 tons will be purchased via a public
tender. The rest will be through government-to-government transactions.
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Member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have
committed to support the Philippines in its trade war with Australia.
This developed as Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara announced that the
government is adopting a policy of 'progressive reduction' on imports from
Australia. During the last five years, Australia has enjoyed an average $572
million trade surplus.
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[Title] => Angara renews call for special treatment for developing countries
[Summary] =>
Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara reiterated yesterday his call for a more
meaningful special and differential treatment (S&D) for developing
countries, as World Trade Organization (WTO0 member-countries return to the
negotiating table and start the long process of coming up with a new
multilateral free trade agreement.
Angara also revealed that a new office under the Department of Agriculture --
the Trade Remedies Office -- will be created to address complaints involving
anti-dumping and implementation of countervailing duties.
He added that the DA is working closely
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[Title] => DA acts on dumping of chicken legs
[Summary] =>
After filing a trade complaint against Belgium with the World Trade
Organization and threatening a similar action against Australia, the Department
of Agriculture is now eyeing a new adversary after it banned imports of leg
quarters and other chicken parts from United States, claiming that the parts
are being 'dumped' here.
Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara said that the move was in response to a
growing clamor from the local poultry industry to put an end to the dumping of
leg quarters from the US.
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