Section 3
SEC. 3. Definition of terms.&mdashThe term "basic iron, nickel, aluminum and steel industries" shall refer to the manufacture of iron, nickel, aluminum and steel from ore materials, including all processes from smelting in blast furnaces to the semi-finished stage, namely, the production of pellets, billets, blooms, slabs or bars; re-rolling into basic forms, either separately or part of the integrated process in the industry, such as sheets, plates, strips, tubes, tubings, conduits, pipes, rails, rods, tin plates, rough castings and forgings. The term "basic chemical industries, including fertilizers" shall refer to the manufacture of basic industrial chemicals, such as acids, alkalis, salts, except sodium chloride and calcium hydroxide, intermediates, dyes, colour lakes and toners; explosives, ammunitions, except fireworks; synthetic resins; synthetic rubber; fertilizers; all chemicals for the production of medicants and insecticides; petro chemical; sucro-chemical; and coke and coal chemicals. The term "copper smelting and refining" shall refer to the manufacture of copper into basic forms, such as ingots, bars, billets, sheets, strips, circles, sections, rods, pipes, tubes, castings and extrusions. The term "pulping" shall refer to the manufacture of pulp from wood, rags, rice straw and bagasse. The term "integrated manufacture" as used in subsection (d) of Section two herein shall include all processes from pulping up to the manufacture of finished paper products. The term "deep-sea fishing" shall refer to commercial fishing in sea and inland waters using any tonnage of fishing vessel, of over three tons gross capacity, licensed by the Bureau of Fisheries. The term "gold and silver refining" shall refer to the smelting of bars or bullion and treatment of chemical re-agents to remove other metal contents leaving gold or silver alone. "Mining" shall mean the exploration for and extraction of minerals which occur in nature as either solids, liquids or gases; manufacture of ceramics, furnaces and refractories. "Base metals" shall mean all metallic minerals except noble metals. "Noble metals" shall refer to gold, silver, diamond, platinum and uranium. The term "Production" as stated in sub-section (h) of Section two herein shall refer to the activities of planting, caring, harvesting and preparation for manufacture of such agricultural products like lumbang, castor beans, soya beans, peanuts, pili and cashew nuts, raw cotton, maguey, abaca, ramie, buri and buntal fibers, raffia, kenaf, rice and corn. The term "Shipbuilding and dry-docking" shall refer to the manufacture of vessels, tugboats, barges, tankers and all component parts related to the industry, including dredging and dry-docking equipment. The term "cattle industry" shall refer to the raising of catties and the acquisition of equipment, materials and machineries related to the industry, including the manufacture and processing of meat and dairy products. The term "cement manufacturing and its allied industries" shall refer to the manufacture of cement, roofing materials and pipes with cement as essential component, material, plaster of paris and other similar products. The term "vegetable oil" shall refer to the manufacturing, processing or refining of vegetable oil from agricultural products such as coconuts, corn seeds, peanuts, soya beans and avocado, cotton seeds, palm nuts, castor beans and lumbang nuts, and the like, for either export or local consumption. The term "logging and the manufacture of veneer and plywood" shall refer to the production of logs and the manufacture of lumber, plywood, and veneer. The term "ceramics" shall refer to the manufacture of structural clay products such as bricks, tiles, pipes, crucibles, architectural terra cotta, stone-lining chimney pipes and tops and refractories. The term "glass" shall refer to an amorphous transparent or translucent brittle material usually made by fusion of silica, soda ash, lime, and salt cake or similar materials. The term "spare parts" shall include even non-metallic parts of such trucks and cars like batteries and bentlaminated safety glass. The term "alumina smelting and penning" refers to the production and manufacture of aluminum from alumina into one or more basic forms such as ingots, billets, bars, sheets, strips, circles, tubes, rods, castings, pipes, sections and extrusions.