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1. Coconut Oil 2. Gold 3. Metal Components 4. Other Products Manufactured from Materials Imported on Consignment Basis 5.

Woodcrafts and Furniture 6. Petroleum Products 7. Ignition Wiring Set and Other Wiring Sets Used in Vehicles, Aircrafts and Ships 8. Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories 9. Cathodes and Sections of Cathodes of Refined Copper 10. Electronic Products

Coconut Oil

Although challenged by biofuels high local demands and experienced a significant drop, coconut oil remains to be at the top in the list of export products in the Philippines. They already have a rich database of individuals who continue to advance to trend of export of coconut products.

Gold
Even before Yamashita treasure days, the Philippine islands have been known for having substantial deposits of gold and other minerals. Northern Luzon, Masbate, Mindanao and the Negros Islands are some of the more prominent sources.

Dried Fish and Shellfish

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Dried fish and other fish products are also another source of Philippine export products. The archipelago boasts of numerous bodies of water which make it a biodiversity hotspot filled with fishing areas.

Metal Components

Textile machineries, grinding machines, steel structures, cylinders and many others comprise the metal components being exported from the Philippines. The Philippines is quite known for specialization on these metal components that other countries do not have the manpower to do. The closure of Japanese magwheel firms also helped shift the attention of acquisition to Asian countries such as the Philippines.

Household Items, Woodcrafts and Furniture

The globe continues to rely on the Philippines for woodcrafts and furniture. The proliferation of products made from Acacia wood and narra are all part of the Philippine heritage and make for a unique part of ones home or office.

Fashion Accessories

Topping the list of fashion accessories is the Rags2Riches bags produced by the women of Payatas slum area in Quezon City. But this is not to be snubbed as the bags were designed by no less than Rajo Laurel. Fashion accessories are quite in trend and many people looking for the fresh and unique in fashion tend to look for export products from many countries, including the Philippines.

Petroleum Products

Despite rumored lack of product inventory, topping the list of Philippine exports are still the petroleum products.

Electric Apparatus

High or low voltage electric apparatus are also exported by the Philippines to other countries. Over 50% of the export industry is anchored on the electric apparatus and semiconductors industry arm.

Semiconductors

Design in wafer, publication and testing continues to be lucrative export industries for Filipinos. The semiconductors never run out of use in this highly technological world. Though there may be some issues in environmental standards, these are optimistically being worked out to strike the balance between profit and environment friendliness.

Computer AccessoriesThe influx of stores online and offline has helped


enhance the numbers of the Philippine export of computer accessories. Its reputation as a fast growing shipment since its boom in 2008 has helped it become a very reliable export source for the Philippines.

Problems

Illicit drugs
The country, an archipelago, serves as breeding ground for locally produced marijuana and hashish and is possible that it is illegally shipped to East Asia, the United States, and other Western markets; serves as a transit point for heroin and crystal methamphetamine.

In 1950 the value of the Philippines' ten principal exports--all but one being agricultural or mineral products in raw or minimally processed form--added up to 85 percent of the country's exports. For the first twenty-five years of independence, the structure of export trade remained relatively constant. Currently the top export products are metal components
An important development in international trade over the past two decades has been the rapid expansion of invisible transactions. To a large extent, this has resulted from the extensive liberalisation of capital transactions worldwide and from the modernisation of financial instruments and technologies. Deregulation measures and the development of advanced hedging and risk-restructuring techniques have allowed investors, in particular institutional investors such as pension and mutual funds, to diversify their portfolios for better returns and/or reduced volatility.

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