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Aquinas University
College of Law
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COMMERCIAL LAW
Sec. 1 . The goals of the National economy are a more equitable distribution of opportunities,
income, and wealth, a sustained increase in the amount of goods, and services produced by
the Nation for the benefit of the people; and an expanding productivity as the key to raising
the quality of life for all, specially the underprivileged.
The State shall promote industrialization and full employment based on sound agricultural
development and agrarian reform, through industries that make full and efficient use of
human and natural resources, and which are competitive in both domestic and foreign
markets. However the State shall protect Filipino enterprises against unfair foreign
competition and trade practices.
In the pursuit of these goals, all sectors of the economy and all regions of the country shall
be given optimum opportunity to develop private enterprises , including corporations,
cooperatives and similar collective organizations, shall be encouraged to broaden the base
of their ownership.
FILIPINO FIRST POLICY
embodied in Secs. 10 and 12 of
Art XII
No Foreign Equity
• Mass Media except recording
• Practice of professions
Retail trade enterprises with paid-up capital of less than US$ 2,500,00
Cooperatives
Private Security Agencies
Small-scale Mining
Utilization of Marine Resources in archipelagic waters, territorial sea, and
exclusive economic zone as well as small-scale utilizaton of natural resources in
rivers, lakes, bays, and lagoons
Ownership, operation and management of cockpits
Manufacture, repair, stockpiling and/or distribution
of nuclear weapons
Manufacture, repair, stockpiling and/or distribution
of biological, chemical and radiological weapons and
anti-personal mines (various treaties to which the
Philippines is a signatory and conventions supported
by the Philippines)
Manufacture of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic
devices
Up to Twenty Percent (20%) Foreign Equity
• Private radio communication network
Up to Twenty-Five Percent (25%) Foreign Equity
• Private recruitment, whether for local or overseas
employment
• Contracts for the construction and repair of locally-
funded public works except:
o Infrastructure/development projects covered in RA
7718; and
o Projects which are foreign funded or assisted and
required to undergo international competitive bidding of
contracts for construction of defense-related structure
Up to Thirty Percent (30%) Foreign Equity
Advertising
Up to Forty Percent (40%) Foreign Equity
• Exploration, development and utilization of natural resources
• Ownership of Private Lands
• Operation and management of public utilities
• Ownership/establishment and administration of educational
institutions
• Culture, production, milling, processing, trading excepting retailing,
of rice and corn and acquiring, by barter, purchase or otherwise, rice and
corn and the by-products thereof
• Contracts for the supply of materials, goods and commodities to
government-owned or controlled corporation, company, agency or
municipal corporation
• Project Proponent and facility Operator of a BOT project requiring a
public utilities franchise
• Operation of deep sea commercial fishing vessels
• Adjustment Companies
• Ownership of condominium units where the common areas in the
condominium projects are co-owned by the owners of the separate
units or owned by a corporation
Up to Forty-Nine Percent (49%) Foreign Equity
Lending companies
Up to Sixty Percent (60%) Foreign Equity
Financing companies regulated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission
Investment houses regulated by the SEC
LIST B: FOREIGN OWNERSHIP IS LIMITED FOR REASONS OF SECURITY, DEFENSE, RISK TO
HEALTH AND MORALS AND PROTECTION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SCALE ENTERPRISES
A “warehouseman” as a person
lawfully engaged in the business of
storing goods for profit.
BIR v. Hawaiian-Philippine Co. 11 SCRA
256 (1964)
(sgd) “B”
1. This is a non-negotiable warehouse receipt, since Sec. 4 provides
that a “receipt in which it is stated that the goods received will
be delivered to the depositor, or to any other specified persons,
is a negotiable receipt.”
If X wants to sell the sugar, he may do so by assigning the warehouse
receipt to the buyer.
Although Art. 1511 of Civil Code provides that a non-negotiable
document of title can be transferred “by delivery to a purchaser,”
nevertheless to bind third parties, Art 1625 (on Assignment) requires
that it must be done through the execution of a public instrument.
NEVERTHELESS, under both Sec. 42 of WRA, and Art. 1514 of Civil
Code, it is the notice to the warehouseman that legally transfers
ownership over the commodities to the assignee-buyer.
Sec. 7 obliges the warehouseman to mark a non-negotiable receipt
on its face as “non negotiable” or “not negotiable” otherwise the
warehouseman is faced with the same liabilities as through it were
negotiable to a person who took the receipt supposing it to be so
negotiable.
b. Negotiable “To Order” Warehouse Receipt
(sgd) “B”
(sgd) “B”