Cutting tariffs reduces public resources

August 1, 2025

No benefits for PH producers and economy

August 1, 2025

Open markets, closed options: The real price of the US-PH trade deal

July 30, 2025

FEATURES

If the grossly one-sided tariff deal is any indication, this ambiguity could very well be hiding something even worse.

Honest SONA, bigger solutions needed to address nation’s problems – IBON

July 25, 2025

The country needs bigger solutions, not the administration’s usual checklist of so-called accomplishments and overblown promises at this year’s SONA.

IBON Executive Director on the US-PH tariff deal

July 24, 2025

Trump tariffs: Smaller isn’t always better

July 16, 2025

The Philippines need not passively submit to US-centric trade norms or the demands of the Trump administration.

On Trump tariff hikes: PH subservience is not strategy

July 10, 2025

Subservience isn’t strategy—sovereignty is. A government that charts an independent economic path for the Philippines is long overdue.

America First, Philippines Last: The art of the bad deal

April 29, 2025

COMMENTARY

It is baffling how the Philippine government can so badly misread the US’s unambiguous “America First” statements and actions as signaling an interest in Philippine development.

US PH Tariff: Govt’s misguided optimism

April 16, 2025

The Philippine government has taken a simplistic view of the tariff imposition.