[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 609, August 01, 1980 ]
MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978, AS AMENDED
Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:
SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed in Annex A hereof as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, shall pay the rates of import duty indicated opposite each article.
SEC. 2. The articles specifically listed in Annex B hereof as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, shall pay the rates of import duty to be applied by stages in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article as listed in the aforementioned Annex B : Provided, That the rate of duty indicated in the last stage shall continue to be levied, imposed and collected in the succeeding years until otherwise duly modified.
SEC. 3. After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles listed in Annex A hereof entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.
SEC. 4. On and after 1 January 1981, all the above-described articles listed in Annex B hereof entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.
SEC. 5. The amendments provided for under Presidential Decree No. 1500 to tariff heading No. 85.15 and Executive Order No. 557 series of 1979 to Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, otherwise known as the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, and all rules and regulations issued in pursuance thereof are hereby repealed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.
By the President:
(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant
SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed in Annex A hereof as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, shall pay the rates of import duty indicated opposite each article.
SEC. 2. The articles specifically listed in Annex B hereof as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, shall pay the rates of import duty to be applied by stages in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article as listed in the aforementioned Annex B : Provided, That the rate of duty indicated in the last stage shall continue to be levied, imposed and collected in the succeeding years until otherwise duly modified.
SEC. 3. After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles listed in Annex A hereof entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.
SEC. 4. On and after 1 January 1981, all the above-described articles listed in Annex B hereof entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.
SEC. 5. The amendments provided for under Presidential Decree No. 1500 to tariff heading No. 85.15 and Executive Order No. 557 series of 1979 to Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, otherwise known as the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, and all rules and regulations issued in pursuance thereof are hereby repealed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.
(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant