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President Donald Trump announced a trade agreement with the Philippines on Tuesday.
The announcement on social media came shortly after Trump the Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Meeted in the Oval Office.
“President Ferdinand Marcos, from the Philippines, leaves the White House, with all its many representatives. It was a wonderful visit, and we concluded our trade agreement, where the Philippines are going to open an open market with the United States and zero rates,” Trump wrote about Truth Social.
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President Donald Trump, Right, and Ferdinand Marcos Jr., president of the Philippines, during a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday 22 July 2025. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
“The Philippines pay a rate of 19%. Moreover, we will work together militarily,” Trump added. “It was a great honor to be with the president. He is highly respected in his country, as he should be. He is also a very good and tough negotiator. We are extending our warmest greetings to the great people of the Philippines!”
During their meeting in the Oval Office, Trump and Marcos Jr. Asked how the fillipines would balance his relationship with the United States and China. Trump noted that he was invited by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in China, and added: “I don’t mind if he can get along with China because we can get along very well with China.”
“We have to do this with our partners. And again, our strongest partner is, has always been the United States. But of course we are. We try to form coalitions and multilateral relationships,” Marcos Jr. added. Toe.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., president of the Philippines, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, not depicted in the Oval Office on Tuesday 22 July 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
A reporter also asked if the hosting of American missiles in the Philippines would be considered ‘escalating’ by China.
“We are going to have a very good relationship,” Trump said about the US and the Philippines. “I know you had some problems with another president, and it was not your fault. It was the president’s fault, and the country might have been tilted to China. But we did it very, very quickly. But you know, you had a country that had a country to come, but I had become good.
Marcos Jr. said the American rockets came as part of the “modernization” of the army of the Philippines.
President Donald Trump during a meeting with Ferdinand Marcos Jr., president of the Philippines, not depicted in the Oval Office on Tuesday 22 July 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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“We would certainly like to, any form of military editions, we would like it not necessary, but it is. And that’s what we do,” said Marcos Jr. “The United States help the Philippines in what we call our self -reliance program, that is to enable us to be self -reliant and able to be able to stand our own two feet, regardless of the circumstances that arise in the future and that, and the reason we have encouraged everything we have encouraged, more interaction with the United States, and it is not just the United States.”
This is a developing story. Come back for updates.
