Executive Order No. 231




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 231, June 28, 1949 ] AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 193, DATED DECEMBER 28, 1948, AND NO. 209, DATED MARCH 30, 1949 By virtue of the powers vested in me by Republic Act No. 330, entitled “An Act authorizing the President of the Philippines to establish a system of import control by regulating imports of non-essential and luxury articles, creating an Import Control Board, authorizing the issuance of rules and regulations to carry into effect such control and penalizing violations of this Act,” I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order: Section 1. Effective August 1, 1949, Appendix A of Executive Order No. 193, dated December 28, 1948, is hereby amended so as to include in the list of luxury and non-essential articles, the following: NAILS (Common wire and finishing, from size 1" to 5", inclusive); CEMENT (Portland); RUBBER (Raw, in the form of crepe sheet, smoked sheet and latex); VEGETABLES (in any form) except potatoes; and PINEAPPLES (canned). Section 2. Effective August 1, 1949, Appendix B of Executive Order No. 193 and section 2 of Executive Order No. 209, are hereby amended so as to include or substitute as the case may be, in the schedule of percentage reductions prescribed therein, the following: NAILS (Common wire and finishing, from size 1" to 5", inclusive), 80 per cent; CEMENT (Portland), 90 per cent; RUBBER (Raw, in the form of crepe sheet, smoked sheet and latex), 90 per cent; VEGETABLES (in any form) except potatoes, 40 per cent; PINEAPPLES (canned), 90 per cent; ONIONS, eliminating the date limit and changing the percentage cut from 90 per cent to 40 per cent; AUTOMOBILES, eliminating the price limit; PERFUMES, changing the percentage cut from 50 per cent to 80 per cent; BEER, changing the percentage cut from 40 per cent to 60 per cent; deleting items 11.1 to 11.4 and 17.1 to 17.4 and changing 10.1-10.4 to TEXTILES and MANUFACTURERS OF COTTON, RAMIE, FLAX, LINEN, WOOL, SILK, RAYON, NYLON AND OTHER SYNTHETIC MATERIALS, 10.1 Fabrics (woven, knitted or otherwise)—50 per cent cut on those costing ?1.20 or more per yard c.i.f. Philippines, irrespective of widths, 10.2 READY MADE WEARING APPAREL (outer or inner)—50 per cent cut, 10.3 HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES—50 per cent cut, 10.4 Grey cloth (unbleached sheetings and unbleached drills)—80 per cent cut, 10.5 WEAVING YARNS—80 per cent cut, 10.6 OTHER MANUFACTURES, except threads, yarns, twines, fishing nets and other articles for industrial purposes—50 per cent cut; PIANOS, changing the price limit from P1,500 to P3,000 and increasing the percentage cut from 40 per cent to 70 per cent; RADIOPHONOGRAPH COMBINATIONS, reducing the price limit from P250 to P200; RADIOS, BATTERY SET, reducing the price limit from P200 to P150; RADIOS, ELECTRIC, reducing the price limit from P150 to P100; CIGARETTES, increasing the percentage cut from 30 per cent to 50 per cent; TOILET SOAP, changing the percentage cut from 50 per cent to 80 per cent; LEATHER, SKINS AND IMITATIONS (MANUFACTURES OF), increasing the cut from 25 per cent to 40 per cent; RUBBER SHOES, eliminating the price limit of ?4.50. Section 3. Effective August 1, 1949, Appendix B of Executive Order No. 193 and section 3 of Executive Order No. 209 are hereby amended so as to change the base period and use as basis of quota allocations the average yearly importation of an importer during the years 1946, 1947 and 1948. Section 4. Effective with the allocation of the quotas for the second six-month period of 1949, section 9 of Executive Order No. 193 is hereby amended so as to charge a license fee of P1 for every P1.000 c.i.f. value of the article covered by an import license issued by the Board, instead of P1,500 as heretofore. Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.1âшphi1 (SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation