TO:	National Wages Council Ministry of Labor and Employment National Cottage Industries
		Development Authority

In order to enable the cottage industry sector to maintain its  share in the world market for cottage and handicraft products  and sustain its continued viability as a vehicle for expansion of employment, you are hereby directed  to exempt cottage industries  from the provisions of P.D. 1713, an act providing for an increase in the minimum daily rates and for additional mandatory living allowances.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.