EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 70  - FURTHER RESTRUCTURING THE IMPORT DUTY RATES AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODES, AS AMENDED

WHEREAS, the current economic recovery programs calls for the promotion of domestic production;  

WHEREAS, the lifting of import restrictions on certain commodities under the import liberalization plan could adversely affect certain domestic industries;

WHEREAS restructuring the rates of import duties on certain articles could offset some adverse effects of the imports liberalization plan and even out the protection levels accorded to various domestic industries;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

Section 1. The rates of imports duties and the classifications of the following articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code, as amended, are hereby modified, to wit:

Rate of Duty
Tariff (ad valorem)
Heading No. Description of Articles Present Prescribed

02. 01 Meat and edible offals

of the animals falling
within heading No. 01.01,
01.02, 01.03 or 01.04,
fresh, chilled or frozen:

100 Meat of bovine animals, (5%) 20%
with bone-in
200 Meat of bovine animals,
boneless    (5%) 20%
300 Meat of sheep or goats (5%) 20%
400 Meat of swine   (5%) 20%
500 Meat of horses, asses,
mules or hinnies   (5%) 20%
600 Offals   (5%) 20%

concentrated or sweetened

concentrated or sweetened
100 Whey (5%) 10%

stomachs of animals
(other than fish),
whole and pieces
thereof (5%) 10%

specified or included; dead animals
of Chapter 1 or Chapter 3, unit for
human consumption:
100 Animal semen for breeding
purposes (e.g. bull semen),
silkworm eggs, and brine
shrimp eggs for hatching for
use as live-feed in prawn
fry culture  (5%) 10%
200 xxx xxx xxx
900 xxx xxx xxx

whether or not skinned or split:
100 White beans, green peas
and chick peas in bulk
container exceeding
45 kgs. gross weight   (5%) 10%
900 xxx xxx xxx

offals, fish, crustaceans or
molluses, unfit for human
consumption; greaves:
100 flours and meals, of
meat or offals, unfit for
human consumption;
greaves (5%) 10%
200 Flours and moal of fish,
crustaceans or molluses,
unfit for human consumption:
290 Other    (5%) 10%

spiegeleisen, in pigs,
blocks, lumps and similar
forms   (5%) 10%

100 Of pig or cast iron (5%) 10%
200 Of alloy steel   (5%) 10%
900 Other   (5%) 10%

iron or steel, whether or
not graded; wire pellets
of iron or steel (5%) 10%

including sponge iron
iron or steel:

100 Iron or steel powders,
including sponge
iron powder (5%) 10%
200 Sponge iron or steel,
not in powder form (5%) 10%

ingots, blocks, lumps
and similar forms, of iron
or steel:

100 Puddle bars and pilings;
blocks lumps and similar
forms     (5%) 10%
200 Ingots (5%) 10%

and sheets bars
(including tinplate bars),
of iron or steel;
pieces roughly shaped
by forging, of iron or
steel 10%

re-rolling 10%

73.13 Sheets and plates of iron

or steel, hot rolled or
cold-rolled:
400 Tinned 20%

Sec. 2. The following articles as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, are hereby deleted from the said section:  

Tariff Rate of Duty
Heading No. Description of Articles (Ad valorem)

73.07 Blooms, billets, slabs and sheet

  bars (including tinplate bars),
or iron or steel; pieces roughly
shaped by forging, of iron or steel:
100 Slabs when imported directly
by hot rolling mills for flat rolling
under prior authorization of the
Iron and Steel Authority Free
900 Other 5%

100 When imported directly by
cold reduction mills for re-rolling
under prior authorization of the
Iron and Steel Authority Free
900 Other 10%

400 xxx xxx xxx
410 When imported directly by food
processors upon prior authorization
of the Iron and Steel Authority Free
490 Other 30%

Sec. 3. The rates of import duties and the classification of other articles Section 104 of the Tariff Customs Code of 1978, as amended, which are not affected by the provisions of Section 1 and 2 hereof, shall remain in full force and effect.  

Sec. 4. All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Sec. 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred eighty-six.
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