Executive Order No. 446




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 446, June 09, 1951 ] AUTHORIZING THE PRICE STABILIZATION CORPORATION TO IMPORT CERTAIN ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES WITHOUT QUOTA ALLOCATION AND IN SUCH QUANTITIES AS MAY BE FOUND NECESSARY. In order to insure an adequate supply of essential commodities and to arrest the rising trend of prices and discourage speculation and hoarding of said commodities, the Price Stabilization Corporation is hereby authorized, pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of Republic Act No. 509.in relation to section 8(6). of Republic Act No. 426, to import without quota allocation, in such .quantities as may be found necessary, and through such channels of trade as can supply in the quickest possible time and the most advantageous prices, the following commodities: 1. Rice (Exclusive importation by PRISCO): 2. Flour: 3. Milk: Evaporated Condensed Powdered Natural 4. Canned Fish: Sardines Markerel Squid Salmon 5. Canned Meats: Canned Beef Vienna Sausage Potted Meats 6. Coffee Beans 7. Printed matter: College and technical books and magazines 8. Animals: Economic animals for breeding purposes Cattle for slaughter 9. Leather manufactures: Beltings 10. Other inedible animal products: Glues Animal wax 11. Grains and preparations: Ingredients for poultry feeds 12. Rubber and manufactures: Beltings Heels Hose Packing and gaskets Sheets, crude Sheets, manufactured Sheetings and soling Soles, inner Soles, outer Rubber, friction tapes Tires 13. Gums and resins, etc.: Resins— Camphor Rosen, resins Shellac Other resins and balsams Turpentine Linseed oil 14. Textiles and manufactures: Cotton— Unmanufactured— Raw cotton Semi-manufactures— Yarns— Mercerized Manufactures— Threads, sewing-Cloth— Bleached for embroidery Blue denim Broadcloth up to and including 69 X 22 quality Cotton duck Fabrics— Remnants up to and including 1 to 10 yds . Miscellaneous cotton mfts.— Filter cloth Ribbon, ink Shoe tops, rubberized fabrics Jute and other fabrics— Threads and twines 15. Paper and manufactures: Unprinted— Cigarette paper Paper for adding machine and cash register Printing paper— For books For newspaper 16. Non-metallic minerals: Petroleum products— Bunker fuel oil Diesel fuel Gasoline and other motor spirits Kerosene Lubricating oils Grease Petroleum jelly (Vaseline) Sulphur Refractories and fire bricks 17. Metals and manufactures: Iron and steel— Sheets, plates and hoop iron— Band hoop iron Corrugated roofing Plain, galvanized Tin plates, tenneplates and jarger tin Steel mill products— Nuts, bolts, washers and rivets Advanced manufactures— Needles Tools— Augers, drills, braces, gimlets and reamers Axes, adz and hatchets File and rasps Gauges, squares and levelers Hammers Hose, rakes and shovels Pipes and fittings— Steel, black Steel, galvanized Non-ferrous metals, except precious— Aluminum and manufactures of— Foil Sheets, corrugated Sheets, plain Antimony Brass and bronze— Bars and rods Locks, hinges and bolts Machinery and parts Nails, tacks, screws, nuts, bolts, washers and rivets Other builders’ hardware Pipes and fittings Sheets Wire Copper and manufactures— Bars, ingots, slabs & pigs Nails, tacks, screws, nuts, bolts, washers and rivets Pipes and fittings Sheets (Montz metal) Wire (bare) Wire, (insulated) Lead— Pigs, bars and sheets Bottle caps Solder & babbit metal Type and type metal Mercury (quicksilver) Nickle Tin— Ingots Zinc— Pigs, bars and sheets Dusts 18. Machinery except agricultural and electrical: All other machinery— Air compressors Coffee and corn mills Fiber stripping machine Fiber stripping machine parts Logging equipment Mining machinery and parts Saw mill machinery and parts Shoemaking machinery and parts Sugar mill and parts Woodworking machinery and parts 19. Agricultural machinery and implements: Plows, cultivators, harrows and parts Reapers and mowers Rice hullers and cleaners Rice hullers and cleaners parts Rice threshers Rice threshers parts All other agricultural machinery implements and parts 20. Chemicals, drugs, dyes and medicines: Acids— Muriatic (Hydrochloric) Nitric Oxalic Sulphuric Other chemicals— Alum (Sodium-aluminum, sulphate) Ammonia, anhydrous Ammonia, aqua Ammonia, carbonate and bicarbonate Baking powder Calcium carbide Chlorine, gas or liquid Cyanide, (Potassium and sodium) Other basic chemicals for pharmaceutical and biological products 21. Fertilizers and Fertilizing Materials: Animals and vegetable fertilizer Nitrate of potash Phosphate of ammonia Sulphate of ammonia Sulphate of potash Superphosphate Mixed fertilizer 22. Explosives: Blasting caps Dynamite Fuses 23. Miscellaneous: Fish, hooks Brushes— Paint Ink and ink powder— Printers ink 24. Spare parts of all motor vehicles such as automobiles, trucks, tractors, including locomotives and railroad cars and spare parts of every kind of machinery: 25. Electrical machinery and apparatus: Electric wires and Wiring fixtures The Price Stabilization Corporation shall issue rules and regulations regarding the placing of orders for said commodities as well as their handling and distribution to meet the needs of the public.1âшphi1 This Order shall take effect as of the dates the Price Stabilization Corporation was authorized by the President of the Philippines in his letters of April 5 and May 11, 1951, to import the commodities herein listed without quota allocation and in such quantities as may be found necessary. Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth. (SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE Acting Assistant Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation