WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 537 provides for a Garments and Textile Export Board to be composed of the Minister of Trade or his representative as Chairman, the Minister of Industry and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs or their representatives, as Members;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 709 created a Ministry of Trade and Industry thereby abolishing the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Industry;

WHEREAS, as a result of the creation of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Garments and Textile Export Board has only two members, namely, the Minister of Trade and Industry or his representative, as Chairman, and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs or his representatives, as Member;

WHEREAS, it is necessary that a third Member be designated.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and the authority vested in me by Presidential Decree No. 1416, as amended, do hereby direct and order the following:

SECTION 1. The Garments and Textile Export Board created under Executive Order No. 537 shall be composed of three members, the Minister of Trade and Industry or his representative as Chairman, the Chairman of the Embroidery and Apparel Control and Inspection Board or his representative and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs or his representative, as Members.

SEC. 2. All laws, decrees, orders, proclamations, rules, regulations or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 19th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.


By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant