PH Embassy in Mexico Participates in ASEAN Business Forum
(From left to right) Third Secretary and Vice Consul Faith Valerie P. Tan, Indonesian Ambassador Cosmas Cheppy Wartono, Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Hoai Duong, COMCE Occidental President Miguel Landeros, Thai Ambassador Rommanee Karanurak and Malaysian Ambassador Muzafar Shah Bin Mustafa (Mexico PE photo)
MEXICO 02 May 2019 – Together with four resident ASEAN Embassies in Mexico, the Philippine Embassy in Mexico participated in the Foro de ASEAN in Guadalajara, Mexico on 11 April 2019.
Foro de ASEAN aims to open trade and investment opportunities between the State of Jalisco and ASEAN countries. The forum was well attended, with over 100 participants from various business sectors in Guadalajara and Jalisco State. Ministers of Tourism, Agriculture, Economic Development and Labor and Social Welfare of the State of Jalisco were also in attendance.
The Philippine delegation focused on the opportunities for cooperation and investments in the information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO )industry, digital creative industries, automotive and aerospace sectors. The Philippines and Jalisco already have an established economic relationship.
The delegation was composed of Third Secretary and Vice Consul Faith Valerie P. Tan and Commercial Counsellor Vichael Angelo D. Roaring of the Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) in Mexico.
In 2011, Ayala Corporation Subsidiary Integrated Microelectronics, Inc. (IMI) opened a plant in El Salto, which currently employs over 1,600 Mexican citizens, and won the Mexican National Export Award in 2017.
After the forum, the ASEAN delegation met with the Governor of Jalisco and the Mayors of Guadalajara and Zapopan. The delegation also toured the Ciudad Creative Digital (CCD), a technology hub and incubator that houses Mexican and foreign companies involved in the film industry, video game design, mobile apps, software development and other creative technologies.
Guadalajara is known as “Mexico’s Silicon Valley”, and the CCD aims to be the headquarters for the country’s digital creative industries.
The forum was organized by the Western Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade (COMCE Occidental) and the Embassy of Viet Nam in their capacity as the current Chair of the ASEAN Committee in Mexico City (ACMC). END
ASEAN Ambassadors and Vice Consul Tan at a Press Conference kicking off the Foro de ASEAN, moderated by Ambassador Sergio Ley and COMCE Occidental President Miguel Landeros. (Mexico PE photo)
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