{"id":30878,"date":"2025-09-24T07:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/?p=30878"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:10:03","slug":"jba-head-philippine-ambassador-discuss-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/jba-head-philippine-ambassador-discuss-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"JBA head, Philippine Ambassador Discuss Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"30878\" class=\"elementor elementor-30878\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c6fca65 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3c6fca65\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-406714b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"406714b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>President of Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) Hamdi Tabbaa on Wednesday discussed with Philippine Ambassador Wilfredo C. Santos, ways to enhance bilateral economic and investment cooperation.<\/p><p>In a statement, Tabbaa called for consolidating joint economic relations, highlighting opportunities to expand trade and investment, particularly in agriculture, food industries, logistics, education, and tourism fields.<\/p><p>Tabbaa also emphasized the association\u2019s &#8220;commitment&#8221; to building &#8220;strategic&#8221; partnerships with Asian countries to diversify markets and boost &#8220;competitiveness&#8221; of the national economy.<\/p><p>Tabbaa urged to launch reciprocal business visits, joint investment forums, and establishment of a Jordanian-Philippine business council by the end of this year to develop bilateral economic ties.<\/p><p>For his part, Santos expressed his country\u2019s interest in strengthening economic relations with Jordan, referring to the &#8220;promising&#8221; opportunities for cooperation in various sectors.<\/p><p>The diplomat commended the JBA&#8217;s role in facilitating communication between the two countries&#8217; private sectors, welcoming establishment of a joint business council as an &#8220;important&#8221; step to advance economic and investment cooperation.<\/p><p>According to official data, trade exchange between Jordan and the Philippines amounted to around USD13.6 million in 2023, including USD8.1 million in exports and USD5.5 million in imports.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) Hamdi Tabbaa on Wednesday discussed with Philippine Ambassador Wilfredo C. Santos, ways to enhance bilateral economic and investment cooperation. In a statement, Tabbaa called for consolidating joint economic relations, highlighting opportunities to expand trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}