EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 213 - AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF “BULK CONTAINERS” FOR MILK IMPORTS AS PROVIDED FOR IN EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 49

WHEREAS, it is the intent under Executive Order No. 49 to grant a lower tariff (10% ad valorem) to milk imported in bulk containers (20%) ad valorem); 

WHEREAS, milk imported in bulk containers is defined under Executive Order No. 49 as having a gross weight of at least 25 kgs., the standard unit of packing of the country’s traditional suppliers such as Europe, Australia and New Zealand;

WHEREAS, present Philippine standards on radioactive contamination require the milk industry to look for alternative sources of supply of milk such as the United States, whose standard unit of packing is 50 lbs. or about 22.7 kgs.;

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

Section 1. The definition of “bulk containers” for milk imports as provided in Executive Order No. 49 is hereby amended to read as follows:

CCCN Rate of
Hdg. No. Description    Duty

04.02 Milk and cream preserved,
concentrated or sweetened

100 x x x
200 Milk (other than whey), in
powder or granules containing
not more than 1.5% by weight
of fat;

210 In bulk containers or gross
weight 20 kgs. or more   ad val. 10%

290 x x x

Sec. 2. Upon effectivity of this Executive Order, the above article which is entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the rate of import duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 3. The rates of import duty and the classifications of other articles under Executive Order No. 49 which are not affected by the provisions of Section 1 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All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.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 10th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

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