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In May 2006, the U.S. lowered the Philippines to the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) Watch List from the Priority Watch List under Section 301 of U.S. trade law. Noting the successful implementation of the OMB and efforts to coordinate enforcement through the IPO, USTR nonetheless continued to identify lax copyright enforcement, especially with regard to optical disk piracy, as a particular area of concern. Counterfeit products produced, marketed in, or exported from the Philippines include clothing, medicines, consumer electronics, automotive products, cosmetics, and toys. Piracy of books, cable television, and software remains significant.
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Ribas most recently served as general manager, Philippines, for the company. He first joined Schering-Plough in 1996 as a sales representative with the Oncology Division in Puerto Rico, assuming marketing positions with increasing responsibility including division manager, Oncology/Biotech, Essex, Schering, HealthCare and Key business units. He held numerous sales positions with Bristol-Myers Squibb in the U.S. and Puerto Rico prior to joining Schering-Plough.
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The U.S. is ... working closely with the Philippines to reduce poverty and increase prosperity. The U.S. fully supports Philippine efforts to root out corruption, to open economic opportunity, and to invest in health and education. USAID programs support the 'Philippines' war on poverty as well as the government's reform agenda in critical areas, including anti-money laundering, rule of law, tax collection, and trade and investment. Other USAID programs have bolstered the government's efforts to heal divisions in Philippine society through a focus on conflict resolution, livelihood enhancement for former combatants, and economic development in Mindanao and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, among the poorest areas in the country. Meanwhile, important programs continue in modern family planning, infectious disease control, environmental protection, rural electrification, and provision of basic services--as well as PL 480 food aid programs and others, which together totaled $211.3 million. In 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation granted $21 million to the Philippines for a threshold program addressing corruption in revenue administration.
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) initiated mission work in the Philippines in 1899, followed by other U.S. mainline denominational missionaries. During the first 50 years each mission group worked independently, building churches, schools, hospitals and social service centers. Then in 1948 the Protestant denominations in the Philippines came together and form the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP).
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Until November 1992, pursuant to the 1947 Military Bases Agreement, the United States maintained and operated major facilities at Clark Air Base, Subic Bay Naval Complex, and several small subsidiary installations in the Philippines. In August 1991, negotiators from the two countries reached agreement on a draft treaty providing for use of Subic Bay Naval Base by U.S. forces for 10 years. The draft treaty did not include use of Clark Air Base, which had been so heavily damaged by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo that the U.S. decided to abandon it.
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Sugar was the most important agricultural export of the Philippines from the mid-1800s to the mid-1970s. Much of the modernization of the country took place to facilitate the processing and transport of this export crop. For many years, the Philippines had access to a protected and subsidized U.S. market for its sugar. The decline of the sugar industry involved many factors, including the expiration of a U.S. quota system on sugar imports in 1974 followed by a sharp decline in world sugar prices.
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