Section 2Sec./Art. 2

Declaration of Policy.- It shall be the policy of the State to evolve export development into a national effort. The government shall champion exports as a focal strategy for a sustainable agri-industrial development to achieve Philippine NIChood towards the year 2000. The private sector shall take the lead in the collective effort to promote exports through discipline and hard work, as it confronts the challenge of winning international markets.

The government and the private sector shall jointly transform the Philippines into an exporting nation. Toward this end, the State shall instill in the Filipino people that exporting is not just a sectoral concern, but the key to national survival and the means through which the economic goals of increased employment and enhanced incomes can most expeditiously be achieved.