Executive Order No. 255 (1970)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 255, August 25, 1970 ]

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 205 CREATING THE FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL

WHEREAS, the close support and cooperation of the Central Bank, the Philippine National Bank and the banking circle in general are indispensable to the implementation of the government’s foreign trade program;

WHEREAS, the heads of the Central Bank and the Philippine National Bank were not included in the original membership of the Foreign Trade Council created by Executive Order No. 205, series of 1970;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby expand the membership of the Foreign Trade Council to include the following:

The Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines | Member The President of the Philippine National Bank | Member

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of August, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary