LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 656, January 10, 1978

[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 656, January 10, 1978 ]

TO: The Chairman Board of Investments

The Governor Central Bank of the Philippines

The Commissioner Bureau of Customs

Pursuant to Section 16(1) of R.A. 5186 and in support of the Electronics Local Content Program, which is intended to rationalize the manufacture of television receivers, sound reproducing appliances, radio receivers, and combinations and components thereof utilizing local materials on a progressively increasing local content annually, importation of parts, components and supplies prescribed for local manufacture as indicated in Annex A shall be restricted. No foreign exchange will be utilized for the importation of the said components and parts without a certification of the BOI that the importer is not covered by the Program.

The BOI is directed to make periodic review of the above Program and to make the appropriate recommendation to the President on the continued restriction of the importation of the said parts and components.

Manila, January 10, 1978

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines

ANNEX "A"

PARTS, COMPONENTS AND SUPPLIES PRESCRIBED AS LOCAL CONTENT UNDER THE ELCP

Printed circuit boards

Coils and transformers

Cabinets and loudspeakers enclosures

Chassis, and sheet metalwares attached to chassis and forming part thereof

Cabinet and chassis accessories, decorative trims, speaker grilles, nameplates, emblems, dials, knobs, backcovers, CRT cups, masks, grille cloth, escutcheons, frames, fronts, control panel assemblies, bezels sliding door railings/guides, lug-type terminal strips

Monochrome TV picture tubes

Loudspeakers

Antenna

Single conductor hook-up wires (pre-cut and/or pre-trimned) and power cords

Solder

Plastic brackets and supports

Packaging materials 13c Mechanical TV tuners, AM, FM and AM/FM tuners

N O T E S

The following: components are, however, exempted:

For Item #1, those which form part of assemblies specifically exempted

For Item #2, yoke, flyback, convergence, delay lines, and pincushion assemblies, molded coils, encapsulated peaking coils, encapsulated LC or LR modules, crystal filter modules, buffer, coupler,toroidal, and these used in TV tuners and in discrete 4-channel stereo demodulator

For Item #5, metal knobs, die-cast frames, die-cast fronts, and die-cast control panel assemblies

For Item #8, telescopic antenna

For Item #13, TV tuners for color TV, push button type AM and/or FM tuners for car radios, and FM-4 channel tuner/demodulator

Importation of cabinet and chassis accessories for color TV may be allowed, subject to prior BOI approval,

Importation of high fidelity loudspeakers shall be allowed subject to prior BOI approval.