[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 66, January 25, 1964 ]

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES AS AMENDED



SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under section 104 of Republic Act Numbered Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven shall pay the following rates of import duty:
Heading No.
Description of Articles
Rate of duty
04.04 Cheese and curd:  
    A. Curd   ad. val. 25%
    B. Other   ad. val. 50%
10.06 Rice:    
    A. . . . .    
      1. . . .    
      2. . .    
    B. Husked:    
      1. Nonglutinous   g. w., 100 Kgs. P7.50
      2. * * * * *    
23.04
Oil cake and other residues (except dregs) resulting from the extraction of vegetable oils:
   
    A. Soybean meal   ad. val. 26%
    B. Soybean oil   ad. val. 40%
30.04
Wadding (including absorbent cotton), gauze, bandages and similar articles (e.g., dressings, adhesive plasters poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in retail packings for medical or surgical purposes:
   
   
A. Absorbent cotton (excluding cotton specialties), adhesive plaster (excluding microporous plaster), medicated plaster, and adhesive bandages
  ad. val. 40%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
30.05 Other pharmaceutical articles:    
    A. Plaster-coated fracture bandages   ad. val. 30%
    B. Catgut surgical sutures without needles, sizes 0000, 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4   ad. val. 15%
    C. Other   ad. val. 8%
51.04
Woven fabrics of continuous synthetic or artificial textiles, including woven fabrics of monofil or strip of heading No. 51.02:
   
    A. Of Rayon:    
      1. In the grey   KG. P3.90 or ad. val 75%
      2. Other   KG. P5.40 or ad. val. 100%
    B. Other   KG. P6.00 or ad. val. 100%
56.06 Woven fabrics of discontinuous or waste synthetic or artificial textiles:    
    A. Of Rayon:    
      1. In the grey   KG. P3.90 or ad. val. 75%
      2. Other   KG. P5.40 or ad. val. 100%
    B. Other   KG. P6.00 or ad. val. 100%
62. 05
Other made-up textile articles (including dress patterns and footwear without applied soles):
   
    A. Shoe laces (other than those falling within heading No. 59.06-A)   ad val. 100%
    B. Umbrella covers   ad. val. 30%
    C. Other   ad. val. 60%
63.03 Remnants:    
   
A. Shorts, second or substandards, without visible defects, of sizes 1.5 sq. m. or less; and piece with visible defects in fabric construction, bleaching, dyeing, printing, or other mill finishes
  KG. P1.50 or ad. val. 30%
    B. Other   KG. P3.00 ad. val. 60%
64.01
Footwear (including overshoes) with outer soles and uppers of rubber or artificial plastic material:
   
    A. Miners ™ rubber boots with steel toe lining   Pair P2.00 or ad. val. 50%
    B. Other   Pair P4.00 and ad. val. 100%
68.14
Friction material of a kind suitable for brakes, for clutches or the like, with a basis of asbestos or other mineral substances, or of cellulose, whether or not combined with textile or other materials, in the form of segments, discs, washers, strips, sheets, plates, rolls, and the like:
   
    A. Brake linings for motor vehicles except for motorcycles   ad val. 35%
    B. Other   ad. val. 15%
73.13 Sheets and plates of iron or steel hot-rolled or cold-rolled:    
    A. Tinplates:    
      1. Hot-dipped   ad. val. 40%
      2. Electrolytic   ad. val. 30%
    B. Other   ad. val. 15%
73.25
Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes plaited bands, slings, and the like, of iron or steel wire, other than insulated cables:
   
   
A. Round wire rope, 6 x 19, with hemp core or independent wire rope center and with an outside diameter ranging from 3/8 to 1-1/2 inches (excluding wire rope with flattened strands)
  ad. val. 30%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
73.27
Woven wire (including wire gauze, wire gauze, wire cloth, wire fencing, and netting) and welded wire grill, or iron or steel:
   
    A. . . . .    
   
B. Hexagonal wire netting and insect wire screen (including hardware cloth of general use with 2 to 30 mesh)
  ad. val. 45%
    C. Other   ad. val. 15%
76.02 Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes, and sections of aluminum; aluminum wire:    
    A. Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes, sections, and slugs, of aluminum   ad. val. 40%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
76.03 Wrought plates, sheets and strips, of aluminum:    
   
A. Plates, sheets and strips, cut to length or shape, embossed, corrugated, ribbed, channeled, or curved; circle sheets; coiled sheets and strips (excluding tubed sheets for refrigerators, perforated or color-enamelled sheets, and perforated or color-enamelled coiled sheets)
  ad. val. 30%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
76.08
Structures and fabricated parts thereof (e.g., roofings, struts, partitions) aluminum
  ad. val. 40%
82.05
Lathe tools, bits dies, taps, press tools, and other tools for power tools or mechanical hand tools, including rock drilling bits and the like:
   
    A. Diamond drill bits with outside diameter up to 3.624 inches   ad. val. 50%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
84.38
Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading No. 84.37 (dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanism, and the like); parts and accessories for machines of the present heading or for machine falling within headings numbered 84.36 and 84.37 (e.g., spindles, spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds, and lifters, hosiery needles):
   
    A. Wooden shuttles for weaving machines   ad. val. 40%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
85.21
Thermionic and electronic tubes and valves, including cathode-ray tubes, photo-electric cells, crystal diodes, triodes, and the like (including transistors); mounted pieze-electric crystals:
   
   
A. Television picture tubes from 14 to 24 inches, 70 to 114 degree deflection using glass bulbs, including laminated type
  ad. val. 30%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%
87.06 Parts and accessories of tractors and other motor vehicles:    
   
A. Long and short rear axle shafts, with nominal lengths of 30- and 22-11/8 inches, respectively, with nominal flange diameter of 4-3/16 inches and with spline 4-3/16 inches and with spline
  Piece P1.70 or
    diameter of 1-1/4 inches   ad. val. 20%
    B. Other   ad. val. 10%

SECTION 2. After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.

SEC. 3. Any unwarranted increase in the prices of local products benefited by those tariff changes may be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th of January 1964, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Four.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN S. CANCIO
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary