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Monday, October 31, 2005
Cebu exporters urged to help meet $50B target
Trade officials and exporters in Metro Cebu, Metro Davao and Central Luzon are tasked to localize their commitments to realize the $50-billion export target next year set in the three-year export plan.
Export Development Council (EDC) chairman and Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. president Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr. said “the main objective of the localization is to translate national commitments made by export leaders and heads of national government agencies during the August National Export Congress into operational programs in exporting regions.”
Localization
The localization program took off in Central Luzon when a pre-regional export congress was held at the Subic Freeport in late October. Following the congress, firm commitments on what government agencies will deliver was scheduled to be given by Nov. 18.
Similar regional export congresses were scheduled for Cebu City, where exporters and trade officials from the Central Visayas will hold their regional export congress in December, and another one in Davao City to involve exporters in Mindanao this November, the EDC announced.
In the Central Luzon pre-export congress conference, five of the region’s top export industries presented sectoral issues.
Challenges
The furniture industry in Pampanga pointed at dwindling raw material supply, which triggers high cost, as their main problem.
This has resulted from the log ban imposed in most of Luzon after the floods in Aurora province last December. Other needs include assistance in design, product development and marketing.
The gifts, toys and housewares group noted declining export performance, while the food, leather goods, electronics and information technology exporters submitted challenges they need to overcome. (Philexport News)
(October 31, 2005 issue)
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