Pursuant to the pertinent provisions of CAO 2-96, the Valuation and Classification Division, Import Assessment Service, this Bureau, is hereby directed to update the publication of values as presently recorded in various Revision Orders within one (1) month from the issuance of this memorandum.

In the meantime, the effectivity of the Memorandum^** of the Commissioner of Customs dated November 10, 1998 regarding the application of published values, copy of which is herein attached, is suspended within the one-month period that subject Revision Orders are being updated or until such time that the New Revision Orders are issued.

The suspension however, would not apply to commodities listed in Annex "A" hereof, the values of which are under consideration by the Customs Valuation Team. Subject commodities shall continue to be assessed as per existing Revisions Orders in relation to existing rules and regulations until the matter is resolved by the Customs Valuation Team or New Revision Orders affecting the same are issued, whichever comes first.

This Order shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 21 May 1999

(SGD.) NELSON A. TAN
Acting Commissioner


Cases Pending With The Customs Valuation Team

1. Hot Rolled Coils (HRC)
   
2. Cold Rolled Coils (CRC)
   
3. Steel Billets
   
4. Polypropylene (PP)
   
5. Polyethylene (PE)
   
6. Birla Tires
   
7. Soy Bean
   
8. Oat Meal
   
9. Aluminum Billets
   
10. Aluminum Ingots
    
11. Tinplates
    
12. Styrene Monomer
    
13. Hydrogen Peroxide
    
14. Tapioca Starch
    
15. Vinyl Chloride Monomer
    
16. White Maize Starch
    
17. Plywood
    
18. Caustic Soda Flake
    
19. Calcium Carbide
    
20. Alcohol Polyvinyl Kuraray
    
21. Glacial Acetic Acid
    
22. Hankook Tires

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^** See NAR Vol. 9/4, p. 697.