Ben D. Kritz
Ben D. Kritz

TRADE Secretary Ramon Lopez raised a very good point last week – and then subsequently stomped it into diffident meaninglessness, which I’ll get to in a moment – when he explained that the reintroduction of the death penalty may threaten the Philippines’ eligibility for the European Union’s Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) tariff exemption system. It’s a valid point because the country has already agreed under various international conventions not to bring back capital punishment.

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