[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 148, December 27, 1993 ]

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES OF 1978, AS AMENDED



Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

SECTION 1.       The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, shall pay the following rates of import duty.

Hdg.
No
 
Harmonized System Code
Description
Rate of Duty (%)
1 July
1993 1994 1995
 
17.01
Cane or beet sugar and
chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
 
 
 
 
Raw sugar not containing
added flavouring or
colouring matter:
 
 
 
 
1701.11 00 -
- x x x
 
 
1701.12 00 -
- x x x
 
- Other:
 
 
1701.91 00 -
- x x x
 
 
1701.99 00 -
- Other
70 60 50
23.09
 
 
 
Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
 
 
2309.10 00 -
- x x x
 
 
2309.90 -
Other
 
 
2309.90 10 -
- - x x x
 
 
2309.90 20 -
- Prawn Feeds
 
 
2309.90 90 -
- x x x
 
 
 
Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No. 30.02 or 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylatic uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or packing for retail sale.
20 20 20
 
 
 
3004.10 00 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.20 00 -
- x x x
 
 
 
- x x x
 
 
3004.31 00 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.32 00 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.39 00 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.40 00 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.50 00 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.90 -
- Other:
 
 
3004.90 10 -
- x x x
 
 
3004.90 20 -
- Closed sterile water system for inhalation pharmaceutical grade
 
 
( USP, NF or BP)
 
10 10 10
 
3004.90 90 -
- x x x
 
35.03
 
Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives: isinglass; other glues of animal origin excluding case in guess of heading No. 35.01
 
 
3503.00 10
- - Gelatin, pharmaceutical grade ( USP, NF or BP)
10 10 10
 
3503.00 90
- - Other
20 20 20
40.07
4007.00 00
Vulcanized rubber thread and cord
30 30 30
 
 
Fuel wood, in logs, in billets in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms.
 
 
4401.10 00
- x x x
 
 
 
- Wood in chips or particles
 
 
4401.21 00
- - Coniferous
Free Free Free
 
4401.22 00
- - Non-Coniferous
Free Free Free
 
4401.30 00
- - x x x
 
54.07
 
Woven fabrics of synthetic flament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading No. 54.04.
 
 
5407.10
- - x x x:
 
 
5407.10 10
- - x x x
 
 
5407.10 90
- - x x x
 
 
5407.20 00
- - x x x
 
 
5407.30 00
- - x x x
 
 
 
- Other woven fabrics, containing 85% or more by weight of filaments of nylon or other polyamides:
 
 
5407.41 00
- - Unbleached or bleached:
 
 
5407.41 10
- - NYLON MESHI FABRIC OR UNTWISTED FILAMENT YARNS FOR USE AS REINFORCING MATERIAL FOR TARPAULIN SHEETING
10 10 10
 
5407.41 90
- - OTHER
30 30 30
55.01
 
Synthetic filament tow
 
 
5501.10 00
- - x x x
 
 
5501.20 00
- - x x x
 
 
5501.30 00
- - Acrylic or modacrylic
3 3 3
 
5501.90 00
- - x x x
 
60.01
 
 
 
Pile fabrics, including
 
"long pile fabrics and
 
terry fabrics, limited or
 
crocheted.
 
 
6001.10 00
- - x x x
 
 
 
- - x x x
 
 
6001.21 00
- - x x x
 
 
6001.22 00
- - x x x
 
 
6001.90 00
- - x x x
 
 
 
- - Others:
 
 
6001.91 00
- - x x x
 
 
6001.92 00
- Of man-made fibres:
 
 
6001.92 10
- - PILE FABRICS OF 100% POLYESTER STAPLE FIBRES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT ROLLERS, MEASURING 2-1/2 TO 3 INCHES IN WIDTH
20 10 10
 
6001.92 90
- - OTHER
30 30 30
85.11
 
Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines.
 
 
8511.10 00
- - x x x
 
 
8511.20 00
- - x x x
 
 
8511.30 00
- - x x x
 
 
8511.40
- Starter motors and dual
 
purposed starter-generators:
 
 
8511.40 10
- Unassembled starter motors
3 3 3
 
8511.40 90
- Other
10 10 10
 
8511.50
- Other generators:
 
 
8511.50 10
- - Unassembled alternators
3 3 3
 
8511.40 90
- - Other
 
 
8511.80 00
- - x x x
 
 
8511.90 00
- x x x
 


SECTION 2.       Upon the effectivity of this order, all the aforementioned articles entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.

SECTION 3.       All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive order, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 4.       This Executive Order shall take effect thirty (30) days following its complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

Adopted: 27 Dec. 1993


(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President