Attached for your information and ready reference are three (3) Certificates of Authority to Import and Release Foreign Leaf Tobacco for Blending Purposes all dated January 22, 1996 and issued in favor of Sterling Tobacco Corporation, for the year 1996 covering Fifty Seven Thousand Six Hundred (57,600); Nineteen Thousand Two Hundred (19,200) and Nineteen Thousand One Hundred Forty Four (19,144) kilos, respectively.

Please be guided accordingly.

Adopted: 21 Feb. 1996

(SGD.) EMMA M. ROSQUETA
Acting Director III
Administration Office