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Vice President Sara Duterte said the economic team of the Marcos administration should have prepared for US President Donald Trump's imposition of a higher 20% tariff rate on Philippine goods exported ...
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Raised tariffs raising eyebrows
The long-anticipated announcement, which had already been hinted at several times recently, has finally arrived: The United ...
Yields on the government’s long-dated and short-dated securities declined compared to the previous week’s auction, following ...
The Philippines has not been spared in the latest round of US tariffs. Beginning August 1, 2025, our exports to the US will face a 20 percent tariff—an increase from the previous 17 percent. While ...
Vice President Sara Duterte is hopeful that the government can mitigate the impact of the 20 percent tariff rate that the ...
The country’s agricultural import bill has been consistently larger than its earnings from farm exports. Last year, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that the Philippines’ ...
India could pose stiff competition to Sri Lanka and the Philippines for nearly a fifth of their exports to the United States ...
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Govt urged to resist US ‘bullying’
OFFICIALS of two mass-based organizations, the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) and the National Trade Union Center of the ...
President Trump may impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals by month's end, with similar measures for semiconductors to follow.
Cash remittances from overseas Filipino workers grew by three percent year-on-year to $13.77 billion in the first five months ...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday expressed hope that the Philippine government will be able to mitigate the economic ...
PHILIPPINE EXPORTS to the US, especially garments and textiles, will face stiffer competition after Indonesia obtained a 19% tariff rate, according to an industry group.