I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Exemption of Staple Food from Import Tax issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 12 of the Staple Food Administration Law and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This ninth day of the seventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (July 9, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan Imperial Ordinance No. 354 The import tax on the articles mentioned in the table of import tariff affixed to the Customs Tariff Law which are mentioned in the table affixed to the present Imperial Ordinance shall in so far as the importation from January 1, 1946, to December 31 of the same year is concerned be exampted. Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force from the day of its promulgation. (Annexed table) Duty number in the table of import tariff Items 12 Rice and Paddy 13 Barley 16 Wheat 17-2 German millet 18 Kao-liang 19 Indian corn 20 Buckwheat 21 Beans and pease 1. Soy-beans 2. Red beans 3. Horse beans 4. Pease 22 Flours, meals or groats of grains and starches. 1. Wheat flour 4. Tapioca, manioca and sago 6. Others