Attached for your information and guidance is a Certificate of Authority to Import and Release Foreign Leaf Tobacco for blending purposes^* dated July 25, 1996, issued in favor of La Suerte Cigar and Cigarette Factory, for the year 1996 covering One Million Five Hundred Thousand (1,500.00) kilos.

Adopted: 02 Sept. 1996

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^* Text Available at Office of the National Administrative Register U.P. Law Complex, Diliman, Quezon City.