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HEALTH DOCUMENTS
A certificate of vaccination against
yellow fever is required for those coming from infected
areas. Children less than one year old are exempted but
may be subject to isolation when necessary. Visitors must
check with their travel agents before departure as
regulations may change without notice.
CUSTOMS
To facilitate customs examination,
visitors are advised to fill in the Baggage and Currency
Declaration Form before disembarking. Visitors are allowed
to bring in the following articles duty free: reasonable
quantity of clothes, jewelry and toiletries, 400 sticks of
cigarettes or two tins of tabacco and two bottles of wine
or spirits of not more than one liter each.
Visitors carrying more than US$ 3,000
are to declare the amount at the Central Bank of the
Philippines counter situated at the custom area. Foreign
currency taken out upon departure must not exceed the
amount brought in. Departing passengers are not allowed to
bring out more than PhP 1,000 in local currency.
MEASURING SYSTEM
The Philippines use the Metric
System in most of trade and legal transactions,
ELECTRICITY
Most residents and business centers in
the Philippines are using 220 volts a/c. However, a number
of major hotels also have 110 volt a/c outlets.
ECONOMY
The Philippines is basically light
industry and agriculture, the chief products being rice,
corn, coconut, pineapple and sugar. It is also rich in
copper, cobalt, nickel, silver, iron and gold deposits. A
number of food processing, textiles, clothing and home
appliance industries are available, with a fast growing
aquaculture, microcircuits and furniture sectors.
The significant structural reforms,
initiated by the present leadership, which liberalize
almost all sectors of the economy, have pushed the
Philippines into the mainstream of economic development in
the heart of the fastest-growing region in the world. -
the Asia-Pacific. Further enhance by its strategic
location as a gateway to the most economically dynamic
part of the world, the Philippines development pathways
for the future are clear...a newly industrializing country
(NIC) status by the year 2000.
CURRENCY
 
The Philippines' monetary unit is the
peso, divided into 100 centavos. Foreign currency may be
exchanged at any hotels, most large department stores,
banks and authorized money changing shops accredited by
the Central Bank of the Philippines. International credit
cards such as Visa, Diners Club, Bank Americard, Master
Charge and American Express are accepted in major
establishments
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