Investment Priorities Plan: Agro-Based Sector
- Includes lumber products, plywood, veneer, pulp from indigenous raw materials, paper integrated with pulp mill.
- Promotes coconut oil, processed tobacco, arrowroot starch, processed fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish.
Mining and Mineral Processing Sector
- Covers iron ore, nickel metal and alloy, unrefined gold, foundry coke, refractories, lime, metallurgical chromite.
- Includes non-metallic roof tiles, copper ore, white cement.
Metal-Based Sector
- Encompasses primary steel, alloy steel castings, motorcycles, rims, spokes, sprockets, roller chains.
- Includes diesel and automotive gasoline engines, ignition coils, electric motors for automotive use.
- Lists camshafts, heavy vehicle axles, automotive lighting and signaling equipment with detailed types.
- Covers automotive gauges, cylinder liners, piston rings, high HP diesel engines, commercial vessels, ocean-going ships.
- Also includes tuners, lathes, carbide-tipped tools, overhead hoists, cranes, air compressors.
- Lists agricultural machinery such as disc plows, roto tillers, grain dryers, storage silos.
- Includes oil exploration and development equipment, ductile iron mill rolls, electrical meters and insulators.
- Also comprises transceivers, electric industrial vehicles, flashlights, electronic data processing systems, and copper rods.
Chemical-Based Sector
- Includes chemical fertilizers (nitrogenous and phosphatic), low and high-density polyethylene, polypropylene.
- Covers nylon and polyester fibers, spun yarn for textiles, tire cords, fish nets.
- Lists integrated vinyl chloride monomer plant, coal for power generation, rubber belts, woven textiles, textile tops/slivers.
- Contains industrial and edible salt, antibiotics, chemical gypsum, stearic acid, petroleum wax.
- Includes pigments such as chrome yellow and molybdate orange.
- Lists plastic drainage pipes and continuous filament glass fibers.
Export Priorities Plan: Agro-Based Sector
- Includes processed fruits, vegetables, seaweeds, algae-based food, seafoods.
- Covers glucose powder, rice bran oil, castor oil, palm oil, fodder.
- Lists fiberboard, particleboard, blackboard cores, builders woodwork, furniture, toys.
- Includes crumb rubber, cellulosic staples for specialty pulp, footwear, refined sugar.
Export Priorities Plan: Mining and Mineral Processing
- Includes beneficiated nickel silicate ore, vitrified tiles, ceramic bathroom accessories, jewelry.
- Covers silicon carbide, silicon metal.
Export Priorities Plan: Chemical-Based Sector
- Lists refined glycerine, activated carbon, furfural, methanol, nicotine sulfate, essential oil, fermentation alcohol.
- Includes sucro-chemicals, cocochemicals, acrylic fibers, specialty fabrics, knitted and woven fabrics.
- Covers garments, made-up articles of textile, plastic, rubber and leather, non-woven fabrics.
- Lists titanium dioxide and blowing agents.
Export Priorities Plan: Metal-Based Sector
- Includes graphite electrode, hermetic compressors, motor vehicle transmissions, dies, molds, tooling.
- Covers kiln dryers, handtools (pliers, wrenches, files), machine tools for wood, oxygen cylinders, locks, flatware, buckles.
- Lists electrical and electronic machinery, precision tools, die parts for semiconductor manufacture.
- Also includes pleasure boats, altimeter, malleable cast iron pipe fittings, marine cargo containers, metal forming machines.
- Covers cigarette lighters, clocks and watches, disposable hypodermic needles, surgical instruments, electro-medical apparatus, fiber-tipped pens.
Public Utilities Priorities Plan
- Focuses on inter-island shipping and essential facilities for ship operations.
- Covers electric utilities, including those drawing power from the National Power Corporation.
- Includes utilities generating own power and those based on indigenous energy resources.
Agricultural Investment Priorities Plan: Food Production
- Includes cattle/carabeef, hogs, goats, poultry (meat, eggs, day-old chicks), aquaculture, fish and marine products.
- Covers dairy production, mungbeans, cacao, rice and rice processing.
Agricultural Investment Priorities Plan: Feed Grain Production
- Includes yellow corn, sorghum, soybeans or winged beans production.
Agricultural Investment Priorities Plan: Feed and Seed Production
- Covers production and/or processing of feed, feed ingredients.
- Includes certified seeds (rice, soybeans) and hybrid seeds (F-1 corn, F-1 sorghum).
- Lists livestock and poultry breeders: cattle, hogs, poultry.
Agricultural Investment Priorities Plan: Other Agricultural Products
- Includes cotton growing and ginning, cassava, spices, tree farming, abaca, coffee production and green coffee processing.
Agricultural Investment Priorities Plan: Farm Services
- Covers tractor pool services, irrigation, pest and disease control.
- Includes other specialized farm services.
Conditions and Implementation
- Project listings are subject to the conditions specified in the resolutions and recommendations of the Investment Coordination Committee.
- The Letter of Instructions serves as authority to implement and prioritize investments in these sectors and projects as part of national development policy.