TO:	Deputy Minister Vicente B. Valdepeñas, Jr.
	Ministry of Trade

Pending the revamp of the Garments and Textile Export Board and the revision of the rules implementing PD 1440 to provide for a more equitable allocation of Export Quotas and Export Authorizations to both new and old manufacturers pursuant to the guidelines I have already communicated to you, you are hereby instructed in your capacity as Deputy Minister to take the following measures:

1. Consider and approve applications for Export Quotas  and Export Authorizations.
2. Appoint or designate the personnel of the GTEB Secretariat.

For immediate  compliance.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of April, In the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-nine.