WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to prescribe the standards and value of export and import samples; and

WHEREAS, the prescription of standards and value of export and import samples is urgently needed to stop the violation of the Customs and Central Bank rules and regulations on exports and imports;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law do hereby direct the Central Bank, the Bureau of Customs and the following Government Commodity agencies connected with Exports:

1. Philippine Tobacco Administration
2. Philippine Virginia Tobacco Administration
3. Parks and Wildlife Office
4. Bureau of Fiber Inspection
5. Philippine Coconut Administration
6. Philippine Fisheries Commission
7. Bureau of Animal Industry
8. Food and Drug Administration
9. National Cottage Industries Development Authority
10. Bureau of Plant Industry
11. Bureau of Standards
12. Bureau of Internal Revenue
13. Sugar Quota Administration, other Quota Products Division

to fully implement the attached Guidelines prescribed by the National Export Coordinating Center to regulate the shipment of Philippine Export Samples to foreign buyers and the handling and disposition of import samples by customs examiners (Annex A).

The National Export Coordinating Center is likewise hereby directed to coordinate the full implementation of the said Guidelines.

This order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of August in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary