WHEREAS, the current economic recovery program calls for the promotion of domestic production;

WHEREAS, the lifting of import restrictions on certain commodities under the import liberalization plan could adversely affect certain domestic industries;

WHEREAS, restructuring the rates of import duties on certain articles could offset some adverse effects of the import liberalization plan and even out the protection levels accorded to various domestic industries;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The rates of import duties and the classifications of the following articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code, as amended, are hereby modified, to wit:

Tariff Heading No.		Description of Articles	Rate of Duty (ad valorem)
			Present	Prescribed
02.01		Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading No. 01.01, 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04, fresh, chilled or frozen:
		Meat of bovine animals with bone-in	(5%)	20%
		Meat of bovine animals, boneless	(5%)	20%
		Meat of sheep or goats	(5%)	20%
		Meat of swine	(5%)	20%
		Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies	(5%)	20%
	600	Offals	(5%)	20%
04.01	000	Milk and cream, fresh, not concentrated or sweetened	(5%)	10%
04.02		Milk and cream, preserved, concentrated or sweetened: Whey	(5%) (5%)	10% 10%
05.04	000	Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof	(5%)	10%
05.15		Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 of Chapter 3, unfit for human consumption:
	100	Animal semen for breeding purposes (e.g. bull semen), silkworm eggs, and brine shrimp eggs for hatching for use as live-feed in prawn fry culture	(5%)	10%
	200	x x x
	900	x x x
07.05		Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split:
		White beans, green peas and chick peas in bulk container exceeding 45 kgs. Gross weight	(5%)	10%
		x x x
230		Flours and meals, of meat, offals, fish, crustaceans or molluscs, unfit for human consumption; greaves:
		Flours and meals, of meat or offals, unfit for human consumption; greaves	(5%)	10%
		Flours and meals, of fish crustaceans or molluscs unfit for human consumption:
		Other	(5%)	10%
73.01	000	Pig iron, cast iron and spiegeleisen, in pigs, blocks, lumps and similar forms	(5%)	10%
73.03		Waste and scrap metal of iron or steel:
		Of pig or cast iron	(5%)	0%
		Of alloy steel	(5%)	10%
	900	Other	(5%)	10%
73.04	000	Shot and angular grit, of iron or steel, whether of not graded; wire pellets of iron or steel	(5%)	10%
73.05		Iron or steel powders; sponge iron or steel:
	100	Iron or steel powders, including sponge iron powder	(5%)	10%
	200	Sponge iron or steel, not in powder form	(5%)	10%
73.06		Puddled bars and pilings; ingots, blocks, lumps and similar forms, of iron or steel:
	100	Puddled bars and pilings; blocks lumps and similar forms	(5%)	10%
		Ingots	(5%)	10%
73.07	000	Blooms, billets, slabs and sheet bars (including tinplate bars), of iron or steel; pieces roughly shaped by forging, of iron or steel		10%
73.08	000	Iron or steel coils for re-rolling		10%
73.13		Sheets and plates of iron or steel, hot rolled or cold-rolled:
	400	Tinned		20%

SECTION 2. The following articles as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, are hereby deleted from the said section:

Tariff Heading No.		Description of Articles	Rate of Duty (ad valorem)
73.07		Blooms, billets, slabs and sheet bars (including tinplate bars), of iron or steel; pieces roughly shaped by forging, of iron or steel:
	100	Slabs when imported directly by hot rolling mills for flat rolling under prior authorization of the Iron and Steel Authority	Free
	900	Other	5%
73.08		Iron or steel coils for re-rolling
		When imported directly by cold reduction mills for re-rolling under prior authorization of the Iron and Steel Authority	Free
		Other	10%
73.13		x x x	10%
		x x x
		When imported directly by food processors upon prior authorization of the Iron and Steel Authority	Free
		Other	30%

SECTION 3. The rates of import duties and the classifications of other articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, which are not affected by the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 hereof, shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 4. All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 25th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred eighty-six.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary