Mercosur trade

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the country’s largest business group, is organizing a business forum on Monday at the PCCI office in Taguig City as a venue for the Mercosur-Asean Chamber of Commerce to present trade and investments opportunities to the Philippine business community.

Mercosur is a sub-regional free-trade bloc comprised of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

PCCI president Alfredo Yao cited the areas of interests of the five-man delegation of the MACC as meat, chicken and fish, soya and soybean meal, motorcycles, textiles, wines and ciders, pharmaceutical products, telecommunications, milk and cheese, leather products and olive oil.