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Philippines
Programs to train foreign nurses still falling short
| 30-March-2013
With its rapidly aging population, Japan will need to increasingly rely on help provided by foreign health care workers. 
In the wake of recent pronouncements from the Philippine government of its proposal to begin 
Thailand and the Philippines are among countries that have recently expressed an interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) bandwagon with the other 11 stakeholders. US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez said the matter had been the subject of further discussion on his recent visit to both countries. 
Philippine Department of Trade and Industry officials will likely confer the European Union early March on moving forward the ongoing process to forge a free trade agreement that will give the Philippines better access to the world’s single largest market.
EU Parliamentarians push RP FTA
| 18-February-2013
Visiting EU Parliamentarians expect the bilateral free trade agreement between the Philippines and EU will be completed in one and a half years as the legislators urged for further opening of the domestic economy to shore up the country’s foreign direct investments and more trade. 
A statement of concern from the EU-ASEAN FTA Network-Philippines 
The Philippines is conducting a feasibility study for a bilateral free trade agreement with Taiwan that would allow the export of farm products to the Taiwanese market.
Further liberalization urged
| 22-January-2013
The United States is pleased with the pace of the Philippines’ growth but would like to see economic expansion sustained in the long term by further liberalization, a visiting US State Department official yesterday said.
Full-blown RP-Taiwan FTA mulled
| 21-January-2013
A full-blown free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and Taiwan is being explored abandoning an earlier proposal to create a special economic corridor that would include only Subic and Clark freeport zones and Kaohsiung. 
The Philippine government and the private sector should move on setting up free trade agreement (FTA) negotations with the European Union, a foreign business association said.
SRA wants sugar quota allocation from Japan
| 23-December-2012
The government is asking Japan that Filipino sugar exporters be given a regular quota of 150,000-200,000 metric tons per year under the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA).
Time for an EU-PHL free trade deal — ECCP
| 21-December-2012
The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) on Thursday said it is committed to support a Philippine-European Union free trade agreement, which it expects to possibly come about in the next three years.
Robust growth keeps PH on track to AEC 2015
| 23-October-2012
In an interview with Rappler before the October 23 forum on ASEAN 2015, ASEAN Deputy Secretary General Dr. Lim Hong Hin said the Philippines’ progress in meeting the agreements under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has been significant.
EU threatens retaliation over sin tax bill
| 15-October-2012
Philippine House of Representatives Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat warned that the free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union will be jeopardized if Philippine government fails to take a second look at the sin tax bill.
’Only tuna industry will benefit from EU-PH trade deal’
| 22-September-2012
If the government pursues a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Euopean Union (EU), only the tuna industry is bound to benefit from it.
DTI spreads awareness of free trade agreements to increase their usage
| 16-September-2012
The Department of Trade and Industry has intensified its information campaign about the country’s free trade agreements in a bid to increase their utilization rate this year.
Study to consider free trade agreement
| 4-September-2012
The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has finished a study that will look into potential industries that will benefit from a potential free trade agreement with Europe and recommend a scope of such an agreement. 
State-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said Free Trade Agreements are only political agreements more than economic.
Philippines begins study for FTA with EU
| 31-July-2012
As part of the European Commission’s developing negotiations towards trade treaties with the individual ten countries within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippines has begun a study into a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU).
Impact of EU trade pact studied
| 29-July-2012
The government will soon start consultations to identify sectors that stand to gain or lose from a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), a senior official told reporters on Friday. |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
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