CORDAGE ALLOTMENT FOR 1937-1938
WHEREAS, according to the monthly reports of the Insular Collector of Customs, Philippine cordage producers and manufacturers, during the twelve-month period beginning May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, did not make any shipment to the United States in excess of the amount allotted to them during the aforementioned period by Executive Orders Numbered Thirty-six and Sixty-two, dated June third, nineteen hundred and thirty-six and November fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, respectively;
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Public Act Numbered One hundred thirty-seven of the Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled “An Act to protect American and Philippine labor and to preserve an essential industry, and for the purposes,” it is hereby ordered that:
1. The effective quota of 6,000,000 pounds of Philippine cordage which may enter the United States during the twelve-month period beginning May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be allocated among the producers and manufacturers thereof in the following manner:
Pounds | |
Elizalde Rope Factory, Inc. | 3,805,255 |
Johnson-Pickett Rope Co. | 2,080,491 |
Manila Cordage Co. | 86,137 |
General Manufacturing | 28,117 |
Total | 6,000,000 |
2. Shipments made previous to May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be allowed on condition that they shall arrive in any part of Continental United States on or May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.
Done at the City of New York, U. S. A. (for the city of Manila), this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.
(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior
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