Executive Order No. 192 dated July 19, 1956, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œUpon prior investigation by, and recommendation of, the National Economic Council, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Republic Act No. 1490, entitled ˜An Act declaring shortages in certain construction materials and authorizing the President of the Philippines to reduce tariff rates for such construction materials, ™ do hereby reduce the present rate of tariff duty on portland cement by sixty-three (63%) per centum. 

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON
Executive Secretary