MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 580, March 24, 1953 ]

FIXING CEILING PRICES OF IMPORTED FOODSTUFF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 3 of Republic Act No. 509, entitled “An Act declaring national policy, authorizing the President of the Philippines for a limited period to fix ceiling prices of commodities and to promulgate rules and regulations regarding prices of commodities to effectuate such policy, and authorizing the appropriation of a certain sum for the purpose,” and upon the recommendation of the Price Administration Board, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

Section 1. The following essential commodity shall not be sold at more than the maximum selling prices for importers, wholesalers and retailers set opposite each:

FOODSTUFF (IMPORTED)

Without 17 per cent Special Excise Tax on Foreign Exchange

Commodity Unit Importer’s price Wholesaler’s price Retailer’s price
Flour:
Pillsbury’s Best Enriched Flour ............................... 5/10# ₱10.83 ₱11.81 ₱2.66
Pillsbury’s Best Enriched Flour ............................... 10/5# 11.24 12.26 1.38
Pillsbury’s Best Enriched Flour ............................... 25/2# 12.60 13.75 0.62

Section 2. The ceiling prices fixed in this Order include the 7 per cent sales tax and 1 per cent municipal tax.

Section 3. This Order shall take effect three days after the date hereof.1a⍵⍴h!1

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary


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