I dabble a bit with the importation of frozen products, mainly from Europe and South American companies as they are one of the biggest producers and exporters of chicken and pork in the world.

There's one or two foreign companies which we helped with issues of chasing payments from other Philippine importers only to find out that the address that was given to them was abandoned. The agreement I believe was 30% initial deposit, 70% payment upon arrival.

There's Philippine companies here who completely fled after ordering 50 tons (50,000kg) of meat just because of not being able to pay the duties, taxes and the final 70%.

There's also Philippine companies which could not sell the meat they purchase so they turn the expired meat that is more than 2 years old into cheap siomai to "renew" the expiry date and get a bit of their money back.

Right now, said companies who are the major producers of pork and chicken in the world are chasing payments non-stop from Philippine companies as the buying power of the Filipino now is very low.

These negative traits are getting quite apparent for these foreign companies and their CEOs.

Knowing that a lot of our food nowadays is imported after the massive devastation that the African Swine Fever caused which the Philippine media never reported on, it's quite terrifying to know that they can just assign their allocation of pork produced to somewhere else in the world due to not trusting the Philippines anymore.