Title
Amending EO No. 233 on Price Controls
Law
Executive Order No. 237
Decision Date
Nov 29, 1939
Manuel L. Quezon's Executive Order No. 237 amends price controls on essential goods, establishing maximum selling prices for various food items and materials while excluding government purchases of higher quality products from these limits.
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Questions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 237)

Executive Order No. 237 amends Executive Order No. 233, dated November 8, 1939.

It concerns fixing the maximum selling prices of certain articles of prime necessity.

Paragraph (3) of Executive Order No. 233 was amended.

The maximum prices apply to specific brands listed and to any new brand or class of the same article that the Emergency Control Administration may determine to be of comparable quality.

New brands or classes cannot be sold at a price higher than the maximum price fixed for the lowest-priced brand or class of the same article.

No, the prices do not apply to purchases made by the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, its subdivisions, or the United States government where higher quality and different specifications are required.

Milk, sardines, corned beef, vegetable lard, sugar, wheat flour, galvanized iron sheets, plain galvanized wire, steel bars, nails, motor fuel alcohol, gasoline, petroleum, cement, mongo, meat, corn, and rice.

Brands include Mother, Farma, Morning evaporated milk; Golden Star condensed and evaporated milk; Royal evaporated milk; Tanibana tinapa sardines; Del Monte, Palace, Majida sardines; Mikia, Brisa de Oro, Asia, and S & W sardines; Royal sardines and corned beef; Ranchero corned beef; Rizal petroleum.

Revisions to maximum prices are shown in the attached tables appended as integral parts to the order.

It took effect in the manner and form provided under Paragraph 6 of Executive Order No. 233.


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