+ Follow FREE TRADE ALLIANCE Tag
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[Title] => UK official to aid donors: “Stop misleading people, deliver what you promise”
[Summary] => Lord Jack McConnell, a member of the United Kingdom House of Lords, assailed the alleged abuse in raising funds using the Yolanda victims as the reason.
[DatePublished] => 2015-02-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => Government urged to revise budget allocation for debt servicing
[Summary] => The Free Trade Alliance (FTA) is urging the government to revise its policy on the payment of foreign debt and instead use the money for projects that would create jobs for Filipinos especially the overseas Filipino workers who are expected to be displaced because of the global recession.
[DatePublished] => 2008-12-30 00:00:00
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[Title] => Global economic crisis to leave more Filipinos unemployed
[Summary] => The slowdown in the world economy may leave more Filipinos out of work because the country may not be able to meet its ...
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[Title] => RP ready to engage US in sectoral bilateral free trade talks
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The Philippines is ready to officially engage the US on a possible sectoral bilateral free trade agreement, Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila said yesterday.
However, according to Favila, possible talks will have to wait until after the November US elections.
US government officials, Favila said, are currently preoccupied with the upcoming elections.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-03 00:00:00
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[Title] => Aviation groups back move for Senate to ratify RP-US air pact
[Summary] => Major aviation stakeholders supported yesterday the position of senators to subject the 1980 RP-US Air Transport Agreement (ATA) to concurrence by the Senate as provided for under the present Constitution.
Robert Lim Joseph, president of the Save Our Skies (SOS) Movement, said, "We laud the senators, particularly Senators Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Joker Arroyo and Sergio Osmeña III, for upholding the Senate’s power to ratify treaties or international agreements.
In published reports, the senators said the 1980 RP-US ATA needs to be concurred in by the Senate pur
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[Title] => No rush to full liberalization, Roxas assures industry group
[Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II assured yesterday the Free Trade Alliance (FTA), a group of local industry associations, that the government will not rush headlong to a full trade liberalization.
"For the first time in history, since 1986, you have a government and a DTI that has put a stop in the automatic reduction in tariffs at an annual basis," Roxas said.
"In fact, you have a government and DTI that has actively employed safeguard legislation or the safety nets legislation that Congress put in place," he added.
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[Title] => Workers warn against perils of open skies
[Summary] => Industries dependent on the aviation sector like tourism, transportation, recreation, entertainment and restaurant business also face the prospect of being dislocated should the country give in to foreign pressure to adopt open skies, labor groups warned.
The warning was raised during the recent Free Trade Alliance (FTA) forum in Ermita, Manila, which tackled the impact of an open skies policy on local aviation.
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[Title] => Cargo forwarders warn of massive dislocation
[Summary] => Cargo forwarders have warned of massive dislocation in the aviation industry, particularly the freight forwarding business, once the government adopts open skies on cargo.
"It would be a folly to open our skies now to countries like the United States," said the cargo firm Asia Overnight Express Corp. during the recent Free Trade Alliance (FTA) forum.
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[Title] => Over half of RP-US entitlements unutilized
[Summary] => Forty to 60 percent of air entitlements between the Philippines and the United States is not being utilized, thus there is no justification to adopt open skies on the route.
This information surfaced during the recent forum on open skies in Manila conducted by the Free Trade Alliance (FTA), a group spearheading a series of discussions on aviation issues.
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[Title] => Tariff on imported cement to stabilize prices
[Summary] => The decision of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to impose a 200-day safeguard tariff on cement imports will not lead to price increases but will in fact reduce and stabilize cement prices as well as assure jobs for thousands of Filipino workers employed by the local cement industry.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-24 00:00:00
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FREE TRADE ALLIANCE
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[Title] => UK official to aid donors: “Stop misleading people, deliver what you promise”
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[DatePublished] => 2015-02-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => Government urged to revise budget allocation for debt servicing
[Summary] => The Free Trade Alliance (FTA) is urging the government to revise its policy on the payment of foreign debt and instead use the money for projects that would create jobs for Filipinos especially the overseas Filipino workers who are expected to be displaced because of the global recession.
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[Title] => Global economic crisis to leave more Filipinos unemployed
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[Title] => RP ready to engage US in sectoral bilateral free trade talks
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The Philippines is ready to officially engage the US on a possible sectoral bilateral free trade agreement, Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila said yesterday.
However, according to Favila, possible talks will have to wait until after the November US elections.
US government officials, Favila said, are currently preoccupied with the upcoming elections.
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[Title] => Aviation groups back move for Senate to ratify RP-US air pact
[Summary] => Major aviation stakeholders supported yesterday the position of senators to subject the 1980 RP-US Air Transport Agreement (ATA) to concurrence by the Senate as provided for under the present Constitution.
Robert Lim Joseph, president of the Save Our Skies (SOS) Movement, said, "We laud the senators, particularly Senators Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Joker Arroyo and Sergio Osmeña III, for upholding the Senate’s power to ratify treaties or international agreements.
In published reports, the senators said the 1980 RP-US ATA needs to be concurred in by the Senate pur
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[Title] => No rush to full liberalization, Roxas assures industry group
[Summary] => Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II assured yesterday the Free Trade Alliance (FTA), a group of local industry associations, that the government will not rush headlong to a full trade liberalization.
"For the first time in history, since 1986, you have a government and a DTI that has put a stop in the automatic reduction in tariffs at an annual basis," Roxas said.
"In fact, you have a government and DTI that has actively employed safeguard legislation or the safety nets legislation that Congress put in place," he added.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-31 00:00:00
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[Title] => Workers warn against perils of open skies
[Summary] => Industries dependent on the aviation sector like tourism, transportation, recreation, entertainment and restaurant business also face the prospect of being dislocated should the country give in to foreign pressure to adopt open skies, labor groups warned.
The warning was raised during the recent Free Trade Alliance (FTA) forum in Ermita, Manila, which tackled the impact of an open skies policy on local aviation.
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[Title] => Cargo forwarders warn of massive dislocation
[Summary] => Cargo forwarders have warned of massive dislocation in the aviation industry, particularly the freight forwarding business, once the government adopts open skies on cargo.
"It would be a folly to open our skies now to countries like the United States," said the cargo firm Asia Overnight Express Corp. during the recent Free Trade Alliance (FTA) forum.
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[Title] => Over half of RP-US entitlements unutilized
[Summary] => Forty to 60 percent of air entitlements between the Philippines and the United States is not being utilized, thus there is no justification to adopt open skies on the route.
This information surfaced during the recent forum on open skies in Manila conducted by the Free Trade Alliance (FTA), a group spearheading a series of discussions on aviation issues.
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[Title] => Tariff on imported cement to stabilize prices
[Summary] => The decision of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to impose a 200-day safeguard tariff on cement imports will not lead to price increases but will in fact reduce and stabilize cement prices as well as assure jobs for thousands of Filipino workers employed by the local cement industry.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-24 00:00:00
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November 24, 2001 - 12:00am
