Attached for your information and ready reference are the following Certificates of Authority to Import and Release Foreign Leaf Tobacco for Blending Purposes:

Name Date Quantity

Sterling Tobacco Corp.

12-13-96

18,610.5 k

La Flor de la Isabela, Inc.

12-13-96

3,636.70 k

-do-

12-13-96

7,199 k

-do-

12-13-96

243 k

Please be guided accordingly.

Adopted: 24 Dec. 1997