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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1307 |
The Minister of Finance
The Director-General, National Economic and
Development Authority
The Governor, Central Bank of the Philippines
The Heads of Ministry/Bureau/Agency/Local Government
Units
The Heads of Government-owned or Controlled
Corporations and State Universities and
Colleges
WHEREAS, it is necessary to conserve the foreign exchange resources of the Philippines and to utilize these only for the most urgent and necessary importations;
WHEREAS, government needs to ensure that the country's external debt is commensurate to its ability to generate foreign exchange receipts from exports of goods and services;
WHEREAS, recovery and growth in domestic industry can be accelerated by maximizing the use and procurement of locally produced goods as against imported substitutes;
WHEREAS, government has to lead the way in patronizing local industry and in exercising prudence in the utilization of foreign exchange resources and in international borrowings:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby Order and Instruct all instrumentalities of the government, both national and local, to maximize the utilization of locally produced goods and to correspondingly minimize the use of imported substitutes and to hold external borrowings to the absolute minimum:
Importations
and Direct Payments
1.
Government shall endeavor to use domestically produced goods,
particularly those with the maximum local material and labor content.
2. Only
vehicles that are locally produced or assembled shall be acquired by
government entities, including fire trucks, garbage trucks and other
similar vehicles, whether or not financed from external debt.
3. No
investments, placements, or deposits shall be made in foreign
enterprises without the approval of the Monetary Board, which shall
give due course to such applications only extraordinary cases.
4. Memberships
in international associations or organizations shall be reviewed, with
the aim of limiting such memberships only to the ones where direct
benefit accrues to the country.
5. Foreign
travel shall be minimized and attendance in short courses, seminars and
training programs shall be limited to those with substantial foreign
counterpart, and excepting duly authorized scholarship programs leading
to graduate degrees.
6. Staff
participation in international conferences and in loan negotiation
missions shall be reduced.
Whenever possible, staff members
of the Philippine embassy or mission in the site of the conference or
negotiation shall represent the country. These representatives shall
forward to the Manila agencies concerned, copies of the proceedings of
the meetings attended.
7. Maintenance
expenses of overseas offices of government agencies shall be minimized
and under no circumstances may expenses exceeding that authorized, be
paid for in foreign exchange.
8. Government
agencies or corporations shall not engage in institutional advertising,
particularly in international publications that involve the outflow of
foreign exchange, except where specifically approved by the President
in cases where direct trade or investment related results are expected.
9. Government
publications shall be locally printed and no foreign exchange shall be
used to pay for printing such publications, except for color
separations which may be done abroad when local facilities are
inadequate for specialized work.
10. Overseas
operations and personnel assignments of government offices shall be
reviewed, with the aim of reducing them to the minimum possible level.
Unnecessary attaches shall be recalled or reassigned to other, more
pertinent posts.
11. No
government entity may purchase, lease or otherwise arrange for the use
of aircraft or watercraft that involves any outflow of foreign
exchange, without the approval of the President.
12. The
hiring of foreign consultants shall be minimized. Contracts for such
foreign consultants, including the mode of payment, shall be subject to
the approval of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
in accordance with existing rules.
13. The Central Bank shall not approve any requests
by government officials for foreign exchange allocations in excess of
that allowed by pertinent rules, particularly for additional
representation allowances and similar purposes.
Approved
but Undrawn Foreign Debt and Grants
14. To reduce the payment of commitment fees on approved loans, the Executive Committee shall review all approved but undrawn foreign loans, with the aim of seeing to (a) the prompt implementation of the projects for which the said loans were contracted or (b) the cancellation of the said loans.
15. As part of the review of undrawn loans, recommendations shall be submitted on the President on the need for (a) budgetary reprogramming in order to provide for the peso counterpart of foreign loans and for the provision in the expenditure program of the loan proceeds, (b) exemptions from ordinary bidding procedures in order to expedite project awards, (c) assistance in project design or compliance with lending agencies' reimbursement requirements, or (d) other necessary action to remove any bottlenecks to implementation or loan disbursement.
16. All concerned agencies shall review approved but undrawn grants in aid or similar receipts from official development sources, with the aim of accelerating disbursements from such grants.
New
External Debt Approvals
18. The maturities of new loan approvals shall also be strictly regulated to ensure that anticipated cash outflows for interest and principal amortization are within the statutory debt service requirement and within the country's ability to service: Provided, That exceptions may be made on a case to case basis with the approval of the President for projects which have no net cash outflow for at least five (5) years.
19. The Central Bank shall formulate guidelines on external borrowings and foreign exchange payments for government entities, observing the criteria in these Instructions, including:
a.
Foreign borrowings shall be for projects that will yield direct foreign
exchange receipts or savings in a pattern that matches interest and
amortization payments;
b. External
debt of government instrumentalities shall be limited to official
development assistance and shall be from commercial sources only in
exceptional cases;
c. Short term
commercial borrowings shall be strictly limited to government owned or
controlled corporations for use in trade-related transactions, subject
to the approval of the Central Bank. In such cases, the outstanding
amount of short term external debt may not exceed the end 1982 level.
Done in the city of Manila this 11th day of April nineteen hundred and eighty-three.
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