EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 521
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 521 -
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
Pursuant
to the powers vested in me by Sec. 401 of Presidential Decree No.
1464, 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 Presidential Decree No. 1464 shall
pay the following rates of import duty:
Tariff Heading Description
of Rate of Duty
No.
Articles
Present Recommended
28.03 Carbon (including carbon
black):
A. x x x
B. Carbon black ....... ad val.
[50%] 30%
28.30 Chlorides and Oxychlorides:
A. x x x
B. ZINC CHLORIDE,
TECHNICAL OR
INDUSTRIAL
GRADE, ... ad val.
[10%] 30%
[B.] C. Calcium chloride and
ammonium
chloride,
commercial
............ ad
val. [50%] 50%
28.40 Phosphites, hypophosphites
and phosphates:
A. x x x
B. Sodium tripolyphosphate
[30%]
AND TETRASODIUM PYRO-
PHOSPHATE .............. ad val
[10%] 30%
38.08 Rosin and resin acids, and
derivatives thereof other than
ester gums included in heading
no. 39.05; rosin spirit and
rosin oils: [30%]
A. ARTICLES NOT INCLUDED
IN SUBHEADING B AND C
HEREOF ....... AD VAL
Unified 30%
Rate of
B. GUM ROSIN ....... AD VAL.
30% 50%
40.02 Synthetic rubber latex; pre-
vulcanized synthetic rubber latex;
synthetic rubber; factice derived
from oils: [30%]
A. SYNTHETIC
RUBBER.........AD VAL. Unified 20%
Rate of
B.
OTHER. .......... AD VAL.
30% 30%
40.10 Transmission, conveyor or
elevator
belts or belting, of vulcanized
rubber: [20%]
A. ARTICLES NOT INCLUDED
IN SUBHEADINGS B AND C
HEREOF ........... AD VAL. Unified 20%
Rate of
B. CONVEYOR AND TRANSMISSION
BELTS UP TO 46 INCHES
(117
CENTIMETERS)
IN WIDTH
AD VAL. 30%
C. V-BELTS ............AD VAL.
20% 50%
55.09 Other woven fabrics of
cotton: [70%]
A. TIRE CORD FABRIC AND TIRE
WOVEN FABRIC WHEN
IMPORTED
DIRECTLY BY
AUTOMOBILE
AND TRUCK
TIRE
MANUFACTURERS
FOR THEIR
EXCLUSIVE
USE ........... AD VAL. Unified
30%
Rate of
B. OTHER .......... AD VAL.
70% 70%
56.07 Woven fabrics of man-made
fibres
(discontinuous or waste): [70%]
A. TIRE CORD FABRIC AND TIRE
WOVEN FABRIC WHEN IMPORTED
DIRECTLY BY
AUTOMOBILE AND
TRUCK TIRE
MANUFACTURES
FOR THEIR
EXCLUSIVE
USE ........ AD VAL.
Unified 30%
Rate of
B. Other ......... AD VAL.
70% 70%
84.23
Excavating, levelling, tamping,
boring and
extracting machinery,
stationary or
mobile, for earth,
minerals or
ores (for example,
mechanical
shovels, coal-cutters,
excavators,
scrapers, levellers and
bulldozers);
pile-drivers snow plough,
not
self-propelled (including snow-plough
attachments): [10%]
A. ARTICLES NOT INCLUDED
IN SUBHEADING B
HEREOF ............AD
VAL. Unified 10%
Rate of
B. CUTTING EDGES AND END
BITS FOR BULLDOZERS,
SCRAPERS,
GRADERS AND
LEVELLERS ......... AD VAL. 20%
85.04 Electric accumulators:
A. HARD RUBBER BATTERY
CONTAINERS AND
CELL ......... AD VAL. Unified 30%
Rate of
B. OTHER ........ AD VAL.
100% 50%
97.07
Fish-hooks, line fishing rods
and tackle;
fish landing nets and
butterfly
nets; decoy “birds”, lark
mirrors and
similar hunting or shooting
requisites:
A. Fish-hooks, LINE FISHING RODS
[20%]
OF FIBERGLASS REELS AND
TACKLES ....... AD VAL. [100%] 20%
B. Other ............... AD
VAL. [100%] 100%
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 benefited by these tariff changes may be sufficient
ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.
Sec. 4. After the lapse of three years from the
effectivity of this Executive Order, the Tariff Commission shall, in
the case of tariff increases in this order, undertake a review of the
effects of the protection herein granted to the respective industries
to determine the possibility of phasing out the protective tariff under
a graduated scheme. However, failure to comply with the requirement in
this section shall mean an automatic reversion to the previous rate of
duty.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 29th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-nine.
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