MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 600, June 16, 1953 ]

FIXING THE CEILING PRICES OF JAPANESE SARDINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

By virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 3 of Republic Act No. 509, entitled “An Act declaring national policy, authorizing the President of the Philippines for a limited period to fix ceiling prices of commodities and to promulgate rules and regulations regarding prices of commodities to effectuate such policy, and authorizing the appropriation of a certain sum for purpose,” and upon the recommendation of the Price Administration Board, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

Section 1. The following essential commodity shall not be sold at more than the maximum selling prices for importers, wholesaler’s and retailers set opposite each:

FOODSTUFF (IMPORTED)

Commodity Unit Importer’s price Wholesaler’s price Retailer’s price
Without 17% Special Excise Tax on
Foreign Exchange:
Canned Fish —
Sardines in To­mato Sauce, Oval
(Japanese) Pacific Sky Madam
24/15-oz. ₱12.87/cs. ₱13.48/cs. ₱0.60/tin
Madam & Pacific Sky 48/15-oz. 25.74/cs. 26.96/cs. 0.60/tin
Sardines in Tomato Sauce,
Tall Round Tins (Japanese)
Madam 50/5-oz. 12.51/cs. 13.11/cs. 0.28/tin
Madam 100/5-oz. 26.02/cs. 26.21/cs. 0.28/tin

Section 2. The ceiling prices fixed in this Order include the 7 per cent Sales Tax and 1 per cent Municipal Tax.

Section 3. This Order shall take effect three days after the date hereof.1a⍵⍴h!1

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary


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