[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 456, October 29, 1975 ]

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1937, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES, AS AMENDED



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 as 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

25.20

Gypsum; anhydrite; calcined gypsum, and plasters with a basis of calcium sulphate, whether or not colored, but not including plasters specially prepared for use in dentistry:

 

 

A. Articles not included in subheading B hereof

ad val. 10%

 

B. Gypsum

ad val. 20%

28.54

Hydrogen peroxide (including solid hydrogen peroxide)

ad val. 30%

32.13

Writing ink, printing ink and other inks

ad val. 50%

48.01

Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), machine made, in rolls or sheets:

 

 

A. Paper:

 

 

1. Carbonizing tissue paper and stencil tissue paper stock, filter paper, coloured match wrapping paper, cupstock converting paper, tabulating index paper, newsprint and cigarette paper exceeding 15 cm . in width, electrical grade insulating paper

ad val. 30%

 

2. Bookpaper and bond paper . ad val. 50%

 ad val. 50%

 

3. Other

ad val. 100%

 

B. x x x

 

 

1. x x x

 

 

2. x x x

 

 

C.  x x x

 

73.12

Hoop and strip of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled:

 

 

A. x x x

 

 

B. Cold-rolled hoop and strip, of iron or steel, coated or uncoated

ad val. 30%

73.13

Sheets and plates, of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled:

 

 

A. Uncoated:

 

 

1. x x x

 

 

2. Cold-rolled sheets

ad val. 30%

 

B. x x x

 

 

1. x x x

 

 

2. x x x

 

84.10

Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring devices; liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar kinds:

 

 

A. x x x

 

 

B. Centrifugal water pumps, single stage, single suction, horizontal shaft type suitable for belt drive on direct coupling (except pumps with shafts common with prime mover) with casings and impellers of cast iron or bronze; piston or plunger type hand pumps

ad val. 30%

84.11

Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and turbo pumps and compressors and free-piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers and the like:

 

 

A. Portable or stationary air compressors and vacuum pumps with free air delivery of over 33 cfm; mine ventilation fans and blowers with minimum capacity of 5,000 cfm; sand pumps; open type compressors rated over 400,000 BTU/hr., hermetically sealed compressors with ratings over 400,000 BTU/hr.; air pumps

ad val. 30%

 

B.  x x x

 

 

C. x x x

 

85.20

Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps (including infra-red and ultra-violet lamps; arc-lamps; electrically ignited photographic flash bulbs:

 

 

A. Infra-red and ultra-violet lamp bulbs including reflector and mercury lamp bulbs; lamp bulbs; lamp bulbs for motor vehicles

ad val. 10%

 

B. x x x

 

87.01

Tractors (other than those falling within heading No. 87.07), whether or not fitted with power take-offs, winches or pulleys:

 

 

A. Articles not included in subheading B hereof

ad val. 10%

 

B. Power tillers or walking tractors or hand tractors

ad val. 30%

87.04

Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles falling within heading No. 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03:

 

 

A. Completely knocked-down (CKD) components when imported from one or more countries for assembly of trucks upon prior authorization and certification of the Board of Investments

ad val. 20%

 

B. Other

ad val. 20%

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 benefitted by these tariff changes may be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary