QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 382)
EO 382 authorizes the commandeering of prime necessity commodities to prevent scarcity, hoarding, and injurious speculation, and it also prohibits/penalizes hoarding and anti-profiteering violations while enhancing enforcement of earlier anti-profiteering orders.
The Emergency Control Administrator may order the commandeering at any time when needed to prevent local or general scarcity, hoarding, and injurious speculation.
They must be turned over to the Food Administrator of the Civilian Emergency Administration, who disposes of them for public distribution through specified government agencies/cooperative organizations.
Distribution may be through cooperative organizations organized by the National Cooperatives Administration, or through the National Trading Corporation, the National Rice and Corn Corporation, the Fuel Administrator, the Industrial Production Administration, or other agencies/instrumentalities as the Food Administrator deems best for the consuming public.
The Emergency Control Administrator must issue the necessary rules and orders for payment of the goods so commandeered.
When they have commodities of prime necessity in stock and withdraw from selling or refuse to sell to legitimate purchasers any of those commodities at the maximum selling prices set by the referenced schedules and related executive orders/special permits/emergency orders/provincial orders.
Selling or offering to sell a commodity of prime necessity at prices higher than the maximum selling prices set in EO No. 371 (Oct. 2, 1941), as amended, is punished; additionally, refusal to issue a covering invoice showing actual prices charged is also penalized.
The schedules attached to Executive Order No. 371 issued October 2, 1941, and any executive orders amendatory thereto.
Making or effecting a false or fictitious sale to create the appearance that the person no longer has in stock the required commodities in inventory.
EO 382 states that the conduct shall be punished as provided in Section three of Commonwealth Act No. 600.
The Emergency Control Administrator may designate any officer or employee of the government—national, provincial, city, or municipal—to assist in enforcement.
When the market conditions demand, the Administrator may include other commodities of prime necessity not originally listed in EO 371, if investigation shows they are being made subject of profiteering.
The maximum selling price must be not less than the market price as of December 7, 1941, plus a surcharge not exceeding 25%.
No. For newly included commodities, the maximum selling price cannot be less than the market price as of December 7, 1941 plus up to a 25% surcharge.
It subjects the price fixing for additional commodities to the provisions regarding Emergency Orders and Special Permits as provided in paragraphs 4(a), 4(b), and 4(c) of EO No. 371, or any other EO amendatory thereto.