Attached for your information and ready reference are Certificates of Authority to Import and Release Foreign Leaf Tobacco for Blending Purposes both dated February 5, 1996 issued in favor of Sterling Tobacco Corp. for the year 1996 covering One Hundred Fifteen Thousand Two Hundred (115,200) and Twenty Seven Thousand (27,000) kilos, respectively.

Please be guided accordingly.

Adopted: 8 Mar. 1996

(SGD.) EMMA M. ROSQUETA
Officer-in-Charge
Internal Administration Group