EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 424
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 424 -
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 Sec. 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 Description
Rate of
No.
Articles Duty
29.23 Single or Complex oxygen
function
amino-compounds:
A. Articles not included in
sub-heading B hereof ad val. 10%
B. Glumatic acid and
monosodium glutamate ad
val. 50%
40.11 Rubber tyres, tyre cases,
interchangeable tyre threads,
inner tubes and tyre flaps,
for wheels of all kinds:
A. For aircraft, tractors
and earth moving equipment ad val. 30%
B. Other
ad val. 50%
41.02 Bovine cattle leather
(including
buffalo leather) and equine
leather except leather falling
within heading No. 41.06,
41.07 or 41.08:
A. Chrome-wet-blue
hides and skin ad val. 10%
B. Other
ad val. 50%
47.01
Pulp derived by mechanical
or chemical
means from any
fibrous
vegetable material:
A. Long-fibered pulp
in rolls, sheets, blocks,
slabs, cakes,
shapes and
similar forms
unfit for use
except as raw
material
for paper or
paperboard
manufactures ad val. 20%
B. Other
ad val. 50%
51.04 Woven fabrics of man-made fiber
(continuous), including woven
fabrics of monofil or strip of
Heading No. 51.01 or 51.02:
A. Tire cord fabrics or tire
woven fabrics ad val. 30%
B. Other
ad val. 70%
54.02 Ramie, raw or processed but not
spun; ramie noils and waste
(including pulled or garnetted
rags) ad val. 20%
74.03 Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes
and sections, of copper; copper wire:
A. Articles not included in
sub-heading B and C hereof
ad val. 10%
B. Round copper rods and bars
ad val. 30%
C. Tinned copper wire (excluding
wire of copper-based metal
alloys) and
bare wire; plated
or coated
with gold or silver ad val. 50%
84.24 Agricultural and horticultural machinery
for soil preparation and cultivation
(for example ploughs, harrows,
cultivators, seed and fertilizer
distributors); lawn and sports
ground rollers:
A. Articles not included in sub-heading
B hereof ad val. 10%
B. Animal drawn, walking tractor
implements
ad
val. 30%
84.41 Sewing machines; furniture
specially
designed for sewing machine needles:
A. Head parts and head
accessories; sewing machine
needles;
pitman complete and
parts
thereof; head assembly of
industrial
sewing machines ad val. 20%
B. Other
ad val. 70%
84.50 Gas-operated welding, brazing,
cutting and surface tempering
appliances:
A. Component parts of
manually operated gas
welding,
brazing, cutting
and surface
tempering
appliances
imported under
prior
authorization of the
Board of
Investments under
a Progressive
manufacturing
program
ad val. 10%
B. Other
ad val. 30%
85.19 Electrical apparatus for making and
breaking electrical circuits, for the
protection of electrical circuits, or
for making connections to or in
electrical circuits, (for example,
switches, relays, fuses, lightning
arresters, surge suppressors, plugs,
lampholders and junction boxes); resistors;
fixed or variable (including potentiometers),
other than heating resistors; printed
circuits; switchboards (other than
telephone switchboards) and
control panels:
A. Component parts of magnetic starters
and circuit breaker imported with
prior
authorization of the Board
of
Investments under a progressive
manufacturing
program ad val. 10%
B. Other
ad val. 50%
87.02 Motor vehicles for the
transport
of persons, goods or materials
(including sports motor vehicles,
other than those of heading
No. 87.09):
A. x x x
B. x x x
1. x x x
2. x x x
3. x x x
C. x x x
D. Components, parts
and/or accessories
imported from
one
or more
countries for
assembly of
passenger
cars by
participants in
the
progressive car
manufacturing
program
upon prior
authorization
and
certification of the
Board of
Investments ad val. 30%
87.14 Other vehicles (including trailers), not
mechanically propelled, and parts
thereof:
A. Trailers and parts and
accessories thereof ad val. 30%
B.
Other
ad val. 70%
98.05 Pencil (other than pencils of
Heading
No. 98.03), pencil leads, slate
pencils, crayons and pastels,
drawing charcoals and writing
and drawing chalks; tailor’s
and billiards chalks:
A. Pencil leads, rubber
erasers and metal ferrules
for pencil
manufacture;
tailor’s
chalk ad val. 30%
B. Other
ad val. 50%
Sec. 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.
Sec. 3. Any unwarranted increase in the price of
local products benefited by these tariff changes may be sufficient
ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 22nd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-four.
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