China top source of PH imports, including pollution
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In 2019, the Philippines imported at least $2 billion worth of goods from China, which was Manila’s top source of imported items, among them induction furnaces that are used to produce steel…
It is not clear how much of the steel that goes to new buildings in the country’s rapidly growing urban centers are imported and how much are locally produced.
But among the locally produced steel are those that come from factories that use induction furnaces, equipment for steel-making that China has already banned but which are still being sold to other countries, the Philippines among them.
