Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 54)
The Philippine 1937 quota of sugar for domestic consumption is 90,915.3356 short tons, net weight.
The Philippine 1937 quota of sugar for emergency reserve is 58,923.0284 short tons, net weight.
Act Numbered 4166 of the Tenth Philippine Legislature, titled 'An Act to provide for the limitation, regulation, and allocation of sugar production in the Philippine Islands, and for the processing and marketing thereof, and for other purposes'.
They are entitled to a mill district reserve sugar allotment covering the difference between 4,000 short tons and the sum of their United States and aBa sugar allotments.
Bataan Sugar Company, Nueva Ecija Sugar Mills, Inc., Hind Sugar Company, and Central Azucarera del Norte.
The polarization must not be less than 80° nor more than 99.2°.
Each mill company must apply for a license to manufacture centrifugal sugar by submitting detailed production, inventory, and delivery reports, along with the payment of the license fee as required by the Domestic Sugar Administrator.
The license fee is fifty pesos (P50) for each 1,000 short tons or a fraction thereof not less than 500 short tons of sugar.
No, the mill company cannot commence milling operations until it has received notice from the Domestic Sugar Administrator that the application is in order and the license fee has been received.
Any provisions of existing Executive Orders that conflict with Executive Order No. 54 are hereby repealed.
'Sugar for reserve' refers to the emergency reserve sugar allotment measured in net weight, raw value, defined with respect to polarization limits of 80° to 99.2°.
They will be allotted proportionately according to their 1932-33 or 1933-34 crop year production, whichever is greater.
The application must include start and end dates of milling operations for the previous year, inventory details categorized by crop year and sugar type, deliveries, polarization data, storage locations, and an oath of correctness signed before a notary.