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| REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1392 - AN
ACT TO AMEND SECTION ELEVEN OF THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF ACT OF 1909 AND
EXEMPTING TEXTILES MADE OF 100 PER CENT PHILIPPINE RAMIE FIBER FROM THE
PAYMENT OF DUTY TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAMIE
INDUSTRY |
| Section 1.
Section eleven of the Philippine Tariff Act of 1909 is hereby amended
by adding thereto another paragraph to read as follows: "355. Ramie
threads, yarns, textiles and industrial fabrics hereinafter also called
ramie goods, when processed abroad from 100 per cent ramie fiber grown
in the Philippines and bought direct from farmers-producers or any of
their cooperatives by any government agency designated by the President
of the Philippines and by it exported abroad in exchange therefor when
their importation is made through the government agency so designated
by the President: Provided, That such tax-exempt importation herein
contemplated shall be allocated proportionately among the original
farmer-producers or any of their cooperatives from whom the government
agency herein specified obtained the ramie fiber for processing
abroad.
"The exemption above granted shall cease two years after the date of approval of this amendatory Act or at any earlier date upon proclamation of the President on recommendation of the National Economic Council to the effect that sufficient degumming, spinning and/or weaving mills to process the entire production of ramie fiber shall have been established in the country." Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: August 23, 1955 |


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