August 24, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Investor inquiries for ecozone areas have remained robust at the same time as america has imposed reciprocal tariffs and plans to implement different protectionist insurance policies, in line with Aboitiz InfraCapital (AIC) Financial Estates.
Monica Lorenzana Trajano, vp and head of business technique at AIC Financial Estates informed reporters the corporate has not seen a slowdown in inquiries from traders.
“It’s enterprise as ordinary for us. It’s a continuing move as a result of we’re additionally always increasing, which implies after they see us, when the worldwide locators view us, they see their skill to scale,” she stated.
Trajano stated overseas traders are additionally capable of see the help supplied by AIC Financial Estates for companies trying to develop.
“Tariff-wise, I wouldn’t say there’s a slowdown. I feel it’s nonetheless constant, if not sooner for some markets,” she stated.
Trajano stated companies trying to diversify operations from China are adopting the China plus one plus one technique of contemplating not only one location, however even a further one to help their operations.
Whereas most of the overseas companies to find in AIC Financial Estates’ tasks are export-oriented, Trajano stated these firms are additionally seeing alternatives within the nation’s robust home market.
Since Aug. 7, Philippine items getting into the US are already being imposed with a 19-percent reciprocal tariff.
With US President Donald Trump asserting plans to impose tariffs on semiconductor imports, Trajano stated AIC Financial Estates, which caters to many companies within the electronics provide chain, is carefully monitoring the scenario.
“We’re all the time monitoring what’s taking place as a result of issues are altering day by day,” she stated.
Because the Philippines is looking for an exemption from the tariff on semiconductors, Trajano is hopeful that the robust ties between the 2 nations would affect the end result of the negotiations with the US.
AIC Financial Estates, which primarily caters to these engaged within the electronics provide chain, can be beginning to see curiosity from different industries.
“The meals business is beginning to are available in and it’s a mix of native or overseas,” Nico De Leon, assistant vp for gross sales and leasing, business technique workforce at AIC Financial Estates stated.
Whereas a invoice looking for to maintain contact middle jobs in America has been filed within the US, Trajano stated they’ve additionally not seen any slowdown in inquiries from enterprise course of outsourcing companies.
Below the Hold Name Facilities in America Act of 2025, companies that relocate a name middle or contract name middle work in a foreign country could be ineligible for Federal grants or assured loans.
With a purpose to counter the influence of the US tariffs and rising prices, De Leon stated companies are prone to flip to outsourcing, which might profit nations just like the Philippines.
Philippine Financial Zone Authority director normal Tereso Panga stated the excessive labor value and issue in sourcing native expertise within the US would pose challenges for companies that plan to carry name middle work in America.
