Duterte signs law creating 2 new Isabela districts

President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law creating two new legislative districts for the province of Isabela in Cagayan Valley region.

Republic Act No 11080, signed on September 27, establishes the 5th and 6th districts of Isabela. This means that in the next elections, the province will be electing 6 representatives instead of the current 4.

The 6 districts are as follows:

1st District

Ilagan City
Cabagan
Delfin Albano
Divilacan
Maconacon
Tumauini
San Pablo
Sta Maria
Sto Tomas

2nd District

Benito Soliven
Palanan
Naguilian
Reina Mercedes
San Mariano
Gamu

3rd District

Alicia
Cabatuan
San Mateo
Ramon
Angadanan

4th District

Santiago City
Cordon
Dinapigue
San Agustin,ones

5th District: Municipalities of Aurora, Burgos, Luna, Mallig, Quezon, Quirino, Roxas, San Manuel
6th District: City of Cauayan and municipalities of Echague, San Guillermo and San Isidro.

Duterte earlier signed a law creating the 8th District of vote-rich Cavite province.

Cebu special economic zone

Duterte also signed a proclamation creating the MacroAsia Cebu Special Economic Zone, a new special economic zone, from two parcels of land near the Mactan International Airport in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu.

Proclamation No 590 was signed on September 17.

A special economic zone is defined as areas to be developed into agro-industrial, Industrial tourist/recreational, commercial, banking, investment and financial centers. They may contain industrial estates, export processing zones, free trade zones, and tourist or recreational centers.

An export processing zone within an ecozone means enterprises that set up shop there can import capital equipment and raw materials without paying taxes or being imposed import restrictions.

A free trade zone, meanwhile, is an "isolated policed area" where imported goods may be unloaded without being subject to import duties. Movement of these goods from the free-trade area to a non-free-trade area, however, will be subject to import duties.

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