Section 1
SECTION 1. The importation of foreign cigar leaf tobacco for the purpose of blending with local cigar leaf tobacco to improve the quality of locally made cigars for export is hereby authorized: Provided, That the total importation for any one year shall not exceed one hundred thousand (100,000) kilograms unless the export market conditions require otherwise: Provided further, That the authority to import shall be granted only to bonafide cigar manufacturers-exporters at least sixty percent (60%) of the capital stock of which is owned by Filipinos and bonafide cigar manufacturing-exporting companies existing at the time of the promulgation of this Decree.