Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the first quarter of 2020 reached PhP 29.4 billion, 36.2 percent lower compared with PhP 46.0 billion in the same period in 2019.

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the first quarter of 2019 by the seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) as well as the Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB), BOI-Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BOI-ARMM), and Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) amounted to PhP 46.0 billion. This was more than three-fold higher compared with the PhP 14.2 billion approved in the same period in 2018.

Total foreign investments (FI) approved in the third quarter of 2017 by the seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) as well as the Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB), BOI-Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BOI-ARMM), and Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) amounted to PhP 43.0 billion. This was 61.1 percent higher compared with PhP 26.7 billion last year. Meanwhile, total approved FI for the first nine months of the year reached PhP 84.1 billion, a decline of 9.9 percent from PhP 93.3 billion in the previous year.