I don't see that anywhere in the link you posted. It's a link about drug prices which doesn't seem to reference The Phillipines at all.

He's saying that from the Filipino perspective it will be open market, and they won't institute a tariff on American goods, then continues on saying that Filipino goods will have a 19% tariff on them.

It's not the clearest thing in the world, but still easy enough to understand if you try in the least bit.

A little unclear, yes, but not so unclear that someone couldn't discern what he means with a little basic thought put into it.

Yeah unfortunately it only works if the wages in the country you are buying from are close enough to the U.S. that 19% would offset the difference.

As an example the largest export of the Philippines is Coconut oil.

Phillipines production cost - $1.65-$2.14/kg

U.S. production cost- $3.04-6.70/kg

So we would have to have at minimum 84% tariffs for the costs to break even, then we would need large areas of land (able to grow them) to dedicate to the $2 billion dollars worth of coconut oil we import from there, and a labor group who would produce it .. which would require the workers we are currently deporting.

So the numbers show, he just taxed companies 19% in the U.S. in coconut oil, which they will pass on to U.S. citizens in the sales price. Because it is still way cheaper than us making it here, so no new jobs will be created