Given President Duterte’s striking display of prescience in his early foreign policy pivot towards regional integration with Southeast and North Asia, his chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) when it turns a half-century in 2017 couldn’t have come at a more fortuitous time for this regional bloc amid the likelihood of its chief security and economic ally of choice—the United States—going isolationist and inward-looking under a Donald Trump presidency.
Read MoreThe Department of Finance (DOF) wants the government’s income tax holidays to be on the par with those of its Southeast Asian neighbors in a bid to modernize this incentives program and further liberalize the economy to allow the entry of more foreign investors.
Read MoreDOF-organized International Tax Forum calls for multilateral solutions
Read MoreTRANSCRIPT: Speech of Finance Sec. Cesar Purisima, Asean Finance Minister Investment Seminar, HK, October 2012
Read MoreThe ASEAN Member States (AMS) have agreed to adopt the World Customs Organization (WCO) Data Model as a tool to assist the development of Customs procedures that would enhance trade facilitation.
Read MoreCustoms Commissioner Rozzano Rufino Biazon and the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) take centerstage this year, in the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015, as he assumes the Chairmanship of the ASEAN organization of Customs Chiefs and the BOC plays host to the four-day 21st Meeting of Customs Directors-General from the 10 ASEAN member countries.
Read MoreRepresentatives from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have picked a new chairman to supervise its forthcoming projects and activities.
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