[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 593, May 17, 1980 ]

REMOVING COPRA, COCONUT OIL, COPRA MEAL OR CAKE AND DESSICATED COCONUT FROM THE LIST OF EXPORT PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO DUTY AS PROVIDED FOR UNDER P.D. 1464, AS AMENDED



Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 515 of P.D. No. 1464, as amended, and upon the recommendation of the National Economic Development Authority, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, direct and order, as follows:

SECTION 1. Copra, coconut oil, copra meal or cake and desiccated coconut are hereby excluded from the list of export products subject to duty as provided under Section 514 of P.D. 1464, as amended, entitled œTariff and Customs Code of 1978 .

SECTION 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant