By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Don’t you know that for this year the economic and
military aids the United States will give to the Philippines will be U.S $180
million according to US state department’s spokesperson John Kirby?
The United States is our third biggest trading partner
where in year 2015 we had a total trade of $16.491 billion. $9.023 billion was
export composed mostly of electronic products while we imported $7.468 billion
from the Yanks.
America, based on that year, was our third global
trading partner after China and Japan where the land of samurais and ninjas was
our biggest trade partner. Our total trade with China was $17.646 billion while
our trade with Japan was $18.669 billion.
Hmm, the difference of the total trade with the Chinks and
the Yanks was more than a billion of dollars?
Singa-four, whose neighbors are Singa-five and Singa-three, ranked
as the fourth largest trading partner of the country for 2015 with a total
trade amounting only to $8.806 billion or a share of 6.8 percent of total trade
we have with countries around the globe.
Minuscule, compared to China and Japan.
Although both of these countries have more total trade
with us, the economic benefits from both were dwarfed if we quantify our
economic relationship with the U.S through the Information Technology-Business
Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) where we are number one in this trade in the world, and
remittances the Filipinos in the U.S sent yearly in our country.
Here are my questions in case we totally break
diplomatic, economic, and military (like revocation of EDCA or Mutual Defense Treaty) ties with Uncle Sam:
Can our 1.2 million IT-BPO workers hold their jobs
here when the U.S government ordered the primarily U.S companies in the IT-BPO to
withdraw from the Philippines and look for other countries just like what she
did to U.S corporations to countries that she broke diplomatic relations?
The IT-BPO would be providing $25 billion revenues for
direct and indirect jobs for us this year. That would be at par with the remittances
our overseas contract workers would be sending this year to our country.
Can China and Russia replaced the $10.4 billion sent
last year and more of this amount this year by our U.S Filipino expatriates in case America
cut ties with us and put a stop of these monies being sent here?
Can the Sinos and Ivans substitute the jobs created here by the $9,023 export of goods we have with the U.S?
Can the Sinos and Ivans substitute the jobs created here by the $9,023 export of goods we have with the U.S?
