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[ArticleID] => 1402902
[Title] => Phl trade deals ‘underutilized’
[Summary] => The Philippines’ free trade agreements with other countries have remained underutilized until this day despite efforts from the government in encouraging Filipino businesses, specifically the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to make use of the deals.
[DatePublished] => 2014-12-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1298072
[AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc
[SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
[SectionUrl] => cebu-business
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[ArticleID] => 1400370
[Title] => MCCI eyeing partnerships with ASEAN biz groups
[Summary] => As the ASEAN integration officially takes place next year, the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry is bent on forging strong trade partnerships with the other business chambers in the region.
[DatePublished] => 2014-12-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1298072
[AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc
[SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
[SectionUrl] => cebu-business
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[ArticleID] => 1375952
[Title] => The potential of EAC must be part of every biz plan
[Summary] => The ASEAN Economic Community is one of the three pillars of ASEAN as outlined in the ASEAN Vision 2020. Its goal is to implement economic integration measures for the creation of a single market, in which there is a free flow of goods, services, investment and a free flow of capital. In 2007, ASEAN leaders agreed to accelerate the establishment of the single market to 2015 and to move closer to an EU-style community of 600 million people.
[DatePublished] => 2014-10-03 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134094
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1351151
[AuthorName] => Henry J. Schumacher
[SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
[SectionUrl] => cebu-business
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[ArticleID] => 1365448
[Title] => Challenge of economic integration
[Summary] => Next year promises to be a coming-out party of sorts for the Philippines as a full fledged participant in the global race for economies to integrate their economy with the world in the hope of reaping the benefits of large borderless markets. Three important milestones are going to take place that will challenge the ability of the country to thrive – which is what economic integration promises - when it lifts those barriers and opens the economy to foreign competition. The question is – are we ready?
[DatePublished] => 2014-09-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134149
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804944
[AuthorName] => Roberto R. Romulo
[SectionName] => Business
[SectionUrl] => business
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[ArticleID] => 1360803
[Title] => Face integration with “coopetition”
[Summary] => Small and Medium Enterprises are told to change the way they do business in the face of the regional economic integration and adopt an inclusive "coopetition" in order to strongly gain access to the 600 million consumer base in the ASEAN market,
[DatePublished] => 2014-08-23 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1298072
[AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc
[SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
[SectionUrl] => cebu-business
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[ArticleID] => 1357837
[Title] => EDC prods lawmakers to approve export bills
[Summary] => The Export Development Council has reinforced its effort to protect the sector from possible glitches in trade facilitation in the upcoming ASEAN integration, by pushing lawmakers to approve house bills supporting this concern.
[DatePublished] => 2014-08-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1298072
[AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc
[SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
[SectionUrl] => cebu-business
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[ArticleID] => 1331223
[Title] => A prosperous Asia-Pacific
[Summary] => This is an ideal time to bring a New Zealand trade delegation to Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2014-06-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134566
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1772360
[AuthorName] => Tim Groser
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
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[ArticleID] => 1255807
[Title] => Niching saved Cebu exporters
[Summary] => Despite the fast-paced growth of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector, traditional export players in Cebu are still holding on and refused to be tagged as “sunset” industry.
[DatePublished] => 2013-11-12 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1298072
[AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc
[SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
[SectionUrl] => cebu-business
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[ArticleID] => 1194681
[Title] => Phl urged to plan for Asean market integration
[Summary] => Companies in Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, are urged to start coming up with strategies on how to take advantage of the single Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) market as the region is on track to meet its goal of economic integration by December 2015.
[DatePublished] => 2013-09-11 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1473425
[AuthorName] => Louella Desiderio
[SectionName] => Business
[SectionUrl] => business
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 906183
[Title] => Liberalisasyon ng Komersyo
[Summary] => NAGDAOS kahapon ng matagumpay na Information Seminar ang Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) sa pakikipagtulungan ng De La Salle University (DLSU) College of Law at College of Business at ng Philippine Association of Law Schools tungkol sa mga Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) na pinasok ng Pilipinas sa ibang mga bansa.
[DatePublished] => 2013-02-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135410
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805107
[AuthorName] => Ernesto P. Maceda Jr.
[SectionName] => PSN Opinyon
[SectionUrl] => opinyon
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