QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 613)
To promote economic rehabilitation and development and to safeguard national security by regulating/controlling the export or re-export of specified items from the Philippines.
It is unlawful for any person, association, or corporation to export or re-export the enumerated machineries (and spare parts), scrap metals, medicines, foodstuffs, abaca seedlings, gasoline, oil, lubricants, and military equipment or supplies suitable for military use, to any point outside the Philippines, without a permit from the President.
Machineries and their spare parts; scrap metals; medicines; foodstuffs; abaca seedlings; gasoline; oil; lubricants; and military equipment or supplies suitable for military use.
A committee composed of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources (chairman), the Secretary of National Defense, and the Administrator of Economic Coordination (members).
Applications are numbered chronologically and are considered and disposed of in chronological order by the committee.
The committee must unanimously find that the exported/re-exported articles may be exported or re-exported without prejudice to national security and without prejudice to the government’s program of agricultural and industrial development.
If within two weeks after the last publication no objection is received by the committee, the President must within ten days issue and sign the permit.
The committee sets the matter for hearing within five days after notice to the applicant and the objector; then within ten days after receipt of the committee’s findings and recommendations, the President issues the permit or rejects the application conformably with those findings.
The President is authorized to control, curtail, regulate, and/or prohibit the exportation or re-exportation of the covered materials, goods, and things, and to issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out the Act.
Upon conviction: a fine of not less than PHP 5,000 nor more than PHP 10,000, or imprisonment of not less than two years nor more than five years, or both, at the court’s discretion.
If committed by the manager, representative, director, agent, or employee in the interest of the natural or juridical person, the same renders the natural or juridical person amenable to the penalties corresponding to the particular offense.
In addition to the penalties, it serves as a ground for immediate revocation of its license to do business.
They shall be confiscated and forfeited to the Government.
It terminates at the end of the next regular session of Congress unless sooner terminated by concurrent resolution.
Provisions of RA 613 and its regulations remain in effect for the purpose of sustaining any suit, action, or prosecution with respect to rights, liabilities, or offenses incurred or committed prior to repeal.
All existing rules and regulations regulating exports (except those promulgated by the Central Bank) shall be readjusted, revised, and integrated to conform with RA 613.