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                    [Summary] => The Philippines is still not prepared to agree to Singapore’s demand for compensation for possible losses as a result of the Philippines invoking an ASEAN protocol to exclude its petrochemical industry from lowered tariffs under the ASEAN Free Trade Area Common Effective Preferential Tariff (AFTA-CEPT) scheme.


According to government sources, the Philippines has to move very carefully on the Singapore compensation demand as the Philippines-Singapore case will set a precedent for all future compensation claims under the AFTA-CEPT exclusion protocol.


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FREE TRADE AREA COMMON EFFECTIVE PREFERENTIAL TARIFF

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RP not ready to compensate S’pore

By Marianne V. Go | July 7, 2003 - 12:00am

The Philippines is still not prepared to agree to Singapore’s demand for compensation for possible losses as a result of the Philippines invoking an ASEAN protocol to exclude its petrochemical industry from...

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