WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to locate, in one government agency, full responsibility and authority for the promotion of Philippine export trade;

WHEREAS, pursuant to present plans of the Commission of Reorganization, the Department of Commerce and Industry is being designated the agency charged with this responsibility;

WHEREAS, there is an evident need to effect these changes by administrative processes, pending legislative action on the Reorganization Plan;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby amend Executive Order No. 115 dated 26 January 1968 creating the National Export Coordinating Center by transferring that agency from the Office of the President to the Department of Commerce and Industry, and designating the Undersecretary of Industry as the Export Coordinator ex officio.

In addition, the NECC is directed to reduce further the procedural steps involved in export licensing and documentation; to provide the required guidelines and standards for the shipment of samples of Philippine products for the export market; and to provide standards, in cooperation with the Bureau of Customs to limit the discretion of examiners in appropriating materials imported into the country as samples.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.


By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary