EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 684
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 684 - 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 Sec. 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 the
Annex hereof as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No.
1464, as amended, shall pay the rate of import duty indicated opposite
each article as listed therein.
Sec. 2. After the expiration of thirty (30) days
from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles
listed in the Annex hereof, entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the
Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import
duty herein prescribed.
Sec. 3. All Orders, Rules and Regulations or parts
thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Order, are hereby
repealed.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 8th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-one.
Tariff Heading Description of
Rate of Duty
No.
Articles
Present
Recommended
(1) (2)
(3)
(4)
37.01 Photographic plates and film
in the flat,
sensitized, unexposed, of any material
other than paper, paperboard or
cloth:
A. [Cromalin] Film for
making printing plates;
X-RAY
FILMS ad val. [10%] 10%
B. x x x
[20%]
39.07 Article of materials of the
kinds
described in heading Nos. 39.01
to 39.66:
A. Bobbins, spools, cops, cones,
cores, reels and similar supports
when imported
directly by
textile mills
for their exclusive
use under
prior authorization of
the Board of
Investments;
HYGIENIC,
MEDICAL AND
SURGICAL
ARTICLES ad val.
[10%] 10% [50%]
B. x x x
C. x x x
40.12 Hygienic and pharmaceutical
articles (including teats), of
unhardened vulcanized
rubber, with or without fittings
of hardened rubber ad val. [20%]
10%
40.13 Articles of apparel and
clothing
accessories (including gloves),
for all purposes, of unhardened
Unified rate of
vulcanized rubber: ad val.
[50%]
A. SURGICAL
GLOVES AD VAL. 10%
B.
OTHER
AD VAL. 50%
48.15 Other paper and paperboard,
cut
to size or shape:
A. Paper:
1. STERILIZATION
INDICATORS
(AUTOCLAVE
TAPES) AD VAL. [20%] 10%
2. [1] Filter paper [and
sterilization indicator
or strip
(auto-clave
tapes)] ad val. [20%] 20%
3. [2] x x x
4. [3] x x x
B. x x x
C. x x x
48.21 Other articles of paper pulp,
paper, paperboard or cellulose
wadding:
A. x x x
B. Electrocardiograph paper;
ULTRASONOGRAPHY
PAPER,
SPIROMETER
PAPER,
ELECTRO-
ENCEPHALOGRAPH PAPER AND
FETAL
MONITORING PAPER [20%]
AD VAL. [80%]
C. x x x
59.11 Rubberized textile fabrics
[;] other Unified rate of
than knitted or crocheted
goods: ad val. [40%]
A. HOSPITAL RUBBER
SHEETING AD VAL. 10%
B. OTHER
AD VAL.
40%
70.17 Laboratory, hygienic
and Unified rate of
pharmaceutical glassware whether
ad val. [20%]
or not graduated or calibrated;
glass ampoules:
A. LABORATORY, MEDICAL,
SURGICAL DENTAL AND
HYGIENIC
GLASSWARE AD VAL. 10%
B.
OTHER AD VAL. 20%
84.17 Machinery, plant and similar
laboratory
equipment, whether or not electrically
heated, for the treatment of materials
by a process involving a change of
temperature such as heating, cooking,
roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing,
pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating,
vaporizing, condensing, or cooling, not
being machinery or plant of a kind used
for domestic purposes; instantaneous or
storage water heaters,
non-electrical:
A. Drier for printing plate
making, STERILIZING
APPARATUS
(E.G., AUTOCLAVE
APPARATUS,
ETC.) ad val. [10%] 10%
B. x x
x
[20%]
85.20 Electric filament lamps and
electric
discharge lamps (including infra-red
and ultra-violet lamps); arc-lamps;
electrically ignited photographic
flashbulbs:
A. Carbon arc lamps, infra-red and
ultra-violet lamp bulbs including
reflector and
mercury lamp bulbs;
discharge
lamps (e.g., sodium vapour
lamps and
metal halide lamps);
SPECIAL
PURPOSE BULBS FOR
MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT (E.G.,
FOR
MICROSCOPE, SPECTRO-
PHOTOMETER,
GALVANO-
METER,
ETC.) ad val. [10%] 10%
B. x x x
[40%]
C. x x x
85.21 Thermionic, cold cathode and
photocathode valves and tubes
(including vapour or gas filled
valves and tubes, cathode-ray
tubes, television camera tubes
and mercury arc rectifying valves
and tubes); photocells; mounted
piezo-electric crystals; diodes,
transistors and similar
semiconductor devices;
electronic microcircuits:
A. TUBES FOR X-RAY
MACHINES
AD VAL. [20%]
B. [A] Electron guns for TC
picture tubes and other articles
not included
in subheadings A
AND [B] C
hereof ad val.
[20%] 20%
C. [B] Monochrome or black
and white television picture
tubes ad val. [40%] 40%
90.13 Optical appliances and
instruments
(but not including lighting appliances
other than searchlights, not falling
within any other heading of
this chapter: Unified rate of
ad val. [20%]
A. SPECIALIZED OPERATING
LIGHTS AD VAL. 10%
B. OTHER AD
VAL. 20%
90.18 Mechano-therapy appliances,
massage apparatus, psychological
aptitude-testing apparatus, artificial
respiration, ozone therapy, oxygen
therapy, aerosol therapy or similar
apparatus; breathing appliances
(including gas masks and similar
respirators) ad val.
[20%] 10%
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