MALACAÑANG
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 396

EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF EXEMPTION OF TRAVEL TAX TO ALL PASSENGERS BY AIR AND/OR SEA ORIGINATING FROM ALL INTERNATIONAL PORTS IN MINDANAO TO ANY DESTINATION WITHIN THE BIMP-EAGA (BRUNEI DARRUSALAM, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES – EAST ASEAN GROWTH AREA)

For reasons of national interest and in order to sustain and accelerate economic development in Mindanao, the exemption from payment of travel tax to all passengers by air and/or sea originating from all international ports in Mindanao to any destination within the BIMP-EAGA (Brunei Darrusalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines – East Asean Growth Area) is hereby extended to March 1998.

For purposes of this order, a Travel Tax Exemption Certificate may be secured from the Philippine Tourism Authority.

This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 14th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:
(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary