AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1863

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1863 was enacted, in
implementation of certain policies of the State, to encourage, promote and
assist the substitution of coco-chemicals for petro-chemicals in the manufacture
of soaps, detergents and other consumer and industrial products;

WHEREAS, in order that the purposes and objectives of the
Decree could be more effectively achieved, there Is a need to include in the
coverage of the Decree other chemicals, natural-based or synthetic, and other
detergent feedstocks/products derived from mineral oil, which could be
substituted with coco-chemicals;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Republic of the Philippines, do hereby decree and order that:

SECTION 1. Section 5 of Presidential Decree No. 1883 is
hereby amended to read as follows:

“SECTION 5. Conditionally Prohibited Importation and Use
of Petro-Chemicals and substitutes. — Upon certification to the BOI by the
bank acquired for the benefit of the coconut farmers under P.D. No. 755 that
UNICHEM, in accordance with its BOI certificate of registration, has commenced
commercial production of coco-chemicals which may be utilized as raw material
feedstock by the surfactant industry, initially in the manufacture of soaps and
detergents, the importation and the use in the Philippines of fatty alcohols
(natural based or synthetic) and their derivatives, and detergent
feedstocks/products derived from mineral oil and natural gas and their
derivatives, for use in the manufacture and sale of detergents and soaps and
such other consumer products as may hereafter be determined pursuant to Section
7 herein, are hereby prohibited and shall be allowed only in the manner and in
the instances prescribed under Section 6 hereof.”

SEC. 2. Section 6 of Presidential Decree No. 1863 is hereby
amended to read as follows:

“SECTION 6. Manner of and Conditions for the Importation
of Petro-Chemicals and Substitutes. — To ensure an orderly and gradual
shift from the use of petro-chemicals to coco-chemicals and to minimize, if not
eliminate, illicit importations of the chemicals covered by the prohibition
wider Section o hereof, all importations of fatty alcohols (natutral-based or
synthetic) and, their derivatives, and detergent feedstocks/products derived
from mineral oil and natural gas and their derivatives, for use in the
manufacture and sale of detergents and soaps and such other consumer products as
may hereafter be determined pursuant to Section 7 hereof, shall be made solely
through and by UNICHEM at its own expense, for resale at cost plus a reasonable
return to, and use by, manufacturers of detergents and soaps and other
industries that may hereafter be determined pursuant to Section 7 hereof, and
only upon the occurrence and on the duration of a shortage in supply of
coco-chemicals.”

SEC. 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of July in the year of our Lord,
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Three.

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
		Presidential Executive Assistant