EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 456
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 456 -
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 of
Rate of
No.
Articles
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%
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 ccfm; 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%
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 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.
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