Before entering RCEP, SINAG's Rosendo So says the government should first address other problems, like improving control of the country’s borders to address smuggling.
[Translation: We want to review the RCEP more deeply so that we'll know what will be its advantages for us if we enter RCEP because we don't see any advantage since we are more on importing.]
The RCEP is a free trade agreement among the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , as well as China, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand. So said it is important to determine first how Filipino farmers will benefit from RCEP given that the volume of importation in the country has been increasing.
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