THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to meet members of business groups and nongovernment institutions to discuss the state of trade negotiations with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
THE PHILIPPINES and the European Free Trade Association will sign next month a declaration to expand trade relations between the country and EFTA members, the Trade department said in a statement yesterday.
AN AGREEMENT that will spur further talks on a possible trade arrangement between the Philippines and the four-member European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is expected to be signed in June, a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) official said. “We’re hoping to sign the Joint Declaration of Cooperation in June in Europe. We are just now refining the declaration,” DTI Undersecretary Adriwan S. Cristobal, Jr. told reporters in a chance interview in Makati City.
THE PHILIPPINES is studying the benefits of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the four-member European Free Trade Association (EFTA), an official of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.