By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Reporter
THE PHILIPPINES should pursue a sectoral agreement with the United States with a focus on critical minerals, even as it hopes to forge a free trade agreement (FTA) under President Donald J. Trump’s administration.
“We do have a good chance of being able to pull that (FTA), but I think it would have to be sectoral. It can’t be the entire free trade agreement,” said Jose Manuel D. Romualdez, Philippine ambassador to the US, at the US-Philippines Society press briefing on Tuesday.
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