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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1364 |
WHEREAS, textile smuggling which undermines the foundations of the Philippine economy has been perpetrated by various garments and textile firms registered with the Garments and Textile Export Board;
WHEREAS, textile smuggling activities continue and have reached a proportion that the government finds no other alternative but to apply the fullest extent of the law against the guilty parties;
WHEREAS, textile smuggling partakes of the nature of economic sabotage and must be counteracted by the government with all the means at its disposal in order that said activities may once and for all be eradicated;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby direct:
1)
The Garments and Textile Export Board (GTEB) to apply the full measure
of the law and to immediately endorse to the Ministry of Justice for
prosecution the cases of all garments and textile firms who have been
found to be involved in textile smuggling activities and whose export
quotas and authorizations and authority to operate customs bonded
manufacturing warehouses have been cancelled and revoked by it.
2) The
Ministry of Justice, through its Prosecution Staff, to expeditiously
prosecute textile smuggling cases endorsed to it by the GTEB.
3) For the
purpose of prosecution, the following acts among others, shall be
considered prima facie evidence of involvement in textile smuggling
activities:
a)
misdeclaration of importations;
b) illegal
withdrawal of textile fabrics from customs bonded manufacturing
warehouse;
c) use of
fictitious or non-existent principals supplying raw materials and/or
accessories on consignment;
d) unaccounted
issuance of fabrics and accessories to sub-contractors;
e) false
exports through the use of forged or fake export documents;
f) failure to
account for imported fabrics and/or accessories;
g) use of
forged or falsified documents;
h) other grave
violators of GTEB or Bureau of Customs regulations.
5) To ensure that the industry is cleansed of undesirable elements, the GTEB to disapprove all applications for export quotas and authorizations and the authority to operate bonded manufacturing warehouses submitted by principals of companies whose licenses have been previously cancelled or revoked by the GTEB.
This Letter of Instructions shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-three.
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