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                    [ArticleID] => 1348350
                    [Title] => ASEAN senior economic officials meeting underway in Myanmar
                    [Summary] => 

A three-day ASEAN senior economic officials meeting is underway in Yangon to make preparations for an ASEAN economic ministers meeting scheduled for August, meeting sources said Sunday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-20 14:05:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175319 [Title] => RP may cite 10-X principle in seeking a delay in the implementation of CEPT [Summary] => The Philippine Government may avail itself of the 10-x principle in seeking a delay in the implementation of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) and ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA).

The 10-X principle allows an ASEAN member country to seek the exclusion of an industry from coverage of the CEPT-AFTA.

During the last Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM), Malaysia proposed that the 10-X principle be not limited to services but should include trade in goods.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174667 [Title] => RP, Thailand start formal talks on sugar tariff issue [Summary] => Formal discussions have begun on a proposal to extend preferential tariff on sugar imports from Thailand as compensation for agreeing to a request by the Philippines to place sugar in the highly sensitive list under the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) which takes effect next year.

The Philippines, along with Indonesia, had requested that sugar be placed in the highly sensitive list, effectively delaying the reduction of tariff on the commodity upon the affectivity of the CEPT next year.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174367 [Title] => Asean members start talks on AICO extension [Summary] => Senior economic officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have begun formal talks to bring down to zero the tariff rate for importations under the ASEAN Industrial Cooperation (AICO) scheme.

ASEAN member-nations have agreed to maintain the AICO arrangement even with the effectivity of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement or AFTA.

The AICO is an industrial cooperation program to promote the sharing of activities between ASEAN-based companies.
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