WHEREAS, it is the government policy to accelerate the sports program and the development of sports in the country;

WHEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Republic Act No. 1937, as amended, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder are classified under Section 104 of Republic Act No. 1937 shall pay the following rates of import duty:

Tariff Heading No.	Description of Articles	Rate of Duty
84.25	Harvesting and threshing machinery; straw and fodder presses; hay or grassmowers; winnowing and similar cleaning machines for seed, grain or leguminous vegetables and egg-grading and other grading machines for agricultural produce (other than those of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry falling within Heading No. 84.29)
	A. Articles not included in subheading B & C hereof . . . . .	Ad. Val. 10%
	B. Lawn mowers (not agricultural) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Ad. Val. 50%
	C. Golf Course Equipment:
	Greenmowers - reel or rotary type, self-propelled, with or without rider, with a minimum of 20 inches width or diameter;
	Gangmowers - for cutting fairways or rough areas, either tractor pulled or with mowing units ahead of tractor wheels;
	Sod Cutters - for cutting strips of fairways grass or greens;
	Top Dressers - for top dressing and fertilizing of greens and fairways, whether pulled or tractor mounted;
	Aerifying Machines - for vertical mowing detaching, aerifying, spiking, renovating whether self-propelled or tractor pulled;
	Other equipment specifically for maintaining golf courses, greens and fairway and rough areas such as power scythes, self-propelled edgers;
	Sharpening equipment for the cutting blades of above equipment; Accessories for above equipment (such as rollers, spikers, grass catchers, brush attachments, etc.);
	Spare parts for the operation and maintenance of above equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Ad. Val. 20%

SECTION 2. This Order shall take effect immediately.

SECTION 3. Any unwarranted increase in the prices of local products benefitted by these tariff changes may be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 15th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.


By the President:

(SGD.) ROBERTO V. REYES
Acting Executive Secretary