[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 865, January 10, 1983 ]

MODIFYING THE RATE OF DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1982



Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1982, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

Section 1. The article acetate tow under heading No. 56.02.500 of the Code is hereby amended and a subdivision thereof is provided to read as follows:



Rate of Duty



1983

1984

1985

56.02

Continuous filament tow for manufacture of man-made fibres (discontinuous):




56.02.500

Of regenerated fibres: [ad val.

20%

20%

20%]

56.02.510

ACETATE TOW . . . . . . . AD VAL.

10%

10%

10%

56.02.590

OTHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.

20%

20%

20%

Section 2. These rates of duty shall be effective on January 1, 1983. All articles under this heading, when entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rate of import duty as herein prescribed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-three.

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

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant