[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 162, August 17, 1965 ]
MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY OF 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 Number Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven shall pay the following rates of import duty:
Tariff
Heading No. Description of Articles Rate of Duty15.07 Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified: A. Crude: 1. * * * * * * * 2. * * * * * * * 3. Tung and oiticica oil ad val. 20%4. Other ad val. 35%B. Refined or purified: 1. * * * * * * * 2. Tung and oiticica oil ad val. 35%3. Other ad val. 70%24.02 Manufactured tobacco; tobacco extracts and andessences: A. * * * * * * * B. * * * * * * * C. * * * * * * * D. Cigarettes of all kinds n.w., kg. P10.00and adval. 50%E. * * * * * * * F. * * * * * * * 32.09 Varnished, lacquers and lacquer enamels: other paints and enamels; distempers, water pigments of the kind used for finishing leathers, pigments in linsed oil, white spirit, of turpentine, varnish or other paint or enamel media; prepared dyes in forms or packings of of a kind sold by retail; STAMPING FOIL:A. * * * * * * * B. Aluminum paste; water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather ad val. 75%C. Other ad val. 100%33.01 Essential oils (Terpeneless or not); concretes and absolutes; residnoids: A. Lime oil and lemon oil ad val. 25%B. Other ad val. 50%37.01 Plates, sensitized, unexposed, of glass or other materials (including film in the flat): A.* * * * * * * B. Other ad val. 15%47.02 Waste paper (including old and out of date newspapers and periodicals) and paperboard; scrap articles of paper or of paperboard, fit only for use in papermaking ad val. 15%48.15 Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape: A. Paper: 1. * * * * * * * 2. * * * * * * * 3. * * * * * * * 4. * * * * * * * 5. Filter paper ad val. 25%6. Other ad val. 45%B. Paperboard: 1. Filterboard 1.w., kg. P0.10
and ad val. 50%2. Other 1.w., kg. P0.15
and ad val. 75%C. * * * * * * * 58.05 Narrow woven fabrics, and narrow fabrics (boldoc) consisting of warp without weft, assembled by means of an edhesive, other than articles falling within heading No. 58.06; A. Narrow woven fabrics of the kind being processed into inked ribbons for typewriters and similar machines ad val. 30%B. Other ad val. 60%58.08 Tulle and other net fabrics (but not including woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics), plain:A. Knotted net fabric for fishing nets: 1. Of cotton ad val. 50%2. Of staple type man-made textiles ad val. 60%3. Other ad val. 35%B. Other: 1. Of cotton, other vegetable textiles or rayon ad val. 50%2. Of synthetic or of other artificial textile ad val. 60%3. Other ad val. 70%65.06 Other headgear, trimmed or not: A. * * * * * * * B. Other: 1. For welders and other safety headgear ad val. 40%2. Other ad val. 50%70.10 Glass carboys, bottles, demijohns, jars, pots, tubular containers and similar containers of a kind used for the packing and other closures, of glass:A. * * * * * * * B. Opal glass containers ad val. 10%C. Other: 1. Bottles and vials for antibiotics, serums and other injectibles ad val. 20%2. Other ad val. 40%73.40 Other articles of iron or steel: A. * * * * * * * B. Grinding balls and rods and industrial belt lacings ad val. 15%C. Other: ad val. 25%84.29 Machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry and other machinery for the working of cereals or leguminous vegetables:A. * * * * * * * B. Rubber roller-type rice huller and parts thereof ad val. 20%C. Other: ad val. 10%87.02 Motor vehicles for the transport of persons or articles; sports motor vehicles:A. Jeeps, vans, trucks and buses: 1. Diesel or semi-diesel ad val. 15%2. Other ad val. 20%B. * * * * * * * C. * * * * * * * D. * * * * * * * 92.03 Pipe and read organ, including harmoniums and the like but excluding mouth organs ad val. 20%92.04 Accordions, concertinas and similar musical instruments; mouth organs: A. Harmonicas ad val. 25%B. Other ad val. 20%92.05 Other wind musical instruments ad val. 20%92.07 Electromagnetic, electrostatic, electronic and similar musical instruments (e.g., pianos, organs and accordions) ad val. 20%92.10 Parts and accessories of musical instruments (other than strings), including mechanisms for musical boxes and perforated music rolls; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds:A. * * * * * * * B. Parts and accessories of guitars, ukeleles, violins, drums, cymbals, wind and brass instruments (e.g., machineheads, pegs, picks, tailpieces, bows, floor stand, holder, pedals, wire brush, drumheads, drum sticks, snare strands, muffler, pickups, reeds and mouthpieces) ad val. 10%C. Other ad val. 15%95.08 Molded or carved article of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins (eg., copal or rosin), or of modeling pastes, and other molded or carved articles, not otherwise provided for worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin falling within heading No. 35.03) and articles of unhardened gelatin:A. Empty gelatin capsules for pharmaceutical products ad val. 50%B. Other ad val. 100%
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.
SECTION 3. Any unwarranted increase in the prices of local products benefited by these tariff changes may be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.
Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-five.
(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN S. CANCIO
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary