Wellness in Trade & Industry: DTI continues Free Trade Areas (FTA) info drive

PIA daily news in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Waray, Pangalatok from around the Philippines: "The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) launched yesterday a second round of information session to provide information relevant to respective industries. It was also aimed to engage the business sector to increase utilization of Philippine preferential trade agreements.

“ Even developed countries spend over 60 information sessions to ensure that their exporters would have the knowledge on how to utilize the benefits of FTA,” said Bureau of Export Trade Promotion Director Senen M. Perlada.
Philippines, he added, should do the same in information dissemination so that benefits cited in FTAs will be greatly utilized.

At the moment, Philippines as a member of ASEAN has 7 existing FTAs namely, AFTA, China (ACFTA), Korea (AKFTA), Australia-New Zealand (AANZFTA), Japan (AJCPA and PJEPA), and India (AIFTA)."