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[Title] => RP seeks expanded textile trade with US
[Summary] => Help us help you.
[DatePublished] => 2010-08-26 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak
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[Title] => Garment exports up 2% to $1.676B in January-August
[Summary] => The country’s exports of garments and textiles amounted to $1.676 billion in the firs eight months this year, posting a slight growth of two percent compared to $1.639 billion in the same period a year ealier, the Garments and Textile Export Board (GTEB) said.
In terms of value, exports to the United States remained the highest, amounting to $1.233 billion and accounting for 74 percent of total garments and textiles export receipts.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-05 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097285
[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[Title] => Government to fund lobby for duty-free entry of RP garments in US market
[Summary] => The government has agreed in principle to fund the private sector lobby for a sectoral agreement with the United States for duty-free access of Philippine garments and textile to the profitable US market.
This was disclosed to The STAR by Confederation of Garment Exporters of the Philippines (CONGEP) chairman Donald Dee who said that a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the funding is already being drawn up and may hopefully be signed during the 31st Philippine Business Conference to be held from Oct. 11 to 13.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-30 00:00:00
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[Title] => Exporters press for duty-free entry of RP garments in US market
[Summary] => The Confederation of Garment Exporters of the Philippines (CONGEP) has initiated ground work on securing a sectoral agreement with the United States for duty-free access of Philippine garments and textile to the profitable US market.
This was confirmed yesterday by Garments and Textile Export Board (GTEB) president Serafin Juliano who said that informal talks for a possible sectoral free trade agreement have been started since an official bilateral agreement between the Philippines and the US is more complicated and takes more time.
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[Title] => Top exec seeks benchmarking of industries
[Summary] => Businessman George T. Siy has come up with a three-point agenda for the next administration to address: Benchmarking of industries, creation of jobs and a paradigm shift in the economy.
Siy, president of the Confederation of Garment Exporters of the Philippines (Congep) said that benchmarking allows the country to really know how it is faring with the rest of the world.
"The next administration should use benchmark data for everything so we can all monitor progress," he said. "We need to stop producing studies and talking," he added.
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January 11, 2004 - 12:00am
