{"id":26654,"date":"2018-03-12T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=26654"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T08:43:05","slug":"eccp-launches-doing-business-in-the-philippines-2018-booklet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/eccp-launches-doing-business-in-the-philippines-2018-booklet\/","title":{"rendered":"ECCP launches &#8216;Doing Business in the Philippines 2018&#8217; booklet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ranking released by US News puts Philippines as the Best Country to Invest In for 2018 just in time after the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) has produced the\u00a02018 version of\u00a0Doing Business in the Philippines booklet. In partnership with the EU-Philippines Business Network, the booklet aims to guide foreign companies interested in investing and\/or starting a business in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26658\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/business.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/business.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/business-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/business-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/business-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26659\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/eccp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/eccp.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/eccp-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/eccp-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/eccp-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the launch of the booklet Guenter Taus, ECCP President recapped, \u201cIn 2017, we saw the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of negotiations of the EU-Philippine FTA, the first full year of the current Administration, steady economic growth, \u2026, progress in a number of positive reforms, the comprehensive tax reform, as well as the release of Memorandum Order No 16, which seeks to reduce restrictions of foreign business activities in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26655\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/doing-business-photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The publication, <strong>Doing Business in the Philippines<\/strong>, arms potential investors with more knowledge on the Philippines, laws, policies, procedures and regulations booting investor confidence allowing them make informed business and investment decisions. Topics include taxation, employment, immigration and dispute resolution properly explained in convenient chapters and subtopics.<\/p>\n<p>Distribution of the booklet will be to the ECCP branch offices in Cebu, Davao and CDO including their European partner chambers in the Philippines, around the region, and in Europe. To aid the modern investor further, an online portal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessphilippines.eu\">www.businessphilippines.eu<\/a>, was also launched to take advantage of the digital avenues and further reach a wide interest in doing business in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>A downloadable PDF file is available in this <a href=\"http:\/\/epbn.ph\/storage\/app\/media\/publications\/2018%20Doing%20Business%20Bookle_022218.pdf\">link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a helpful tool for interested businesspersons who want to invest in the Philippines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-launching-and-opening"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/doing-business-photo-e1520844036921.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26662,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26654\/revisions\/26662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}