EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 390 - MODIFYING THE NOMENCLATURE AND RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464), AS AMENDED

WHEREAS, Section s 104 and 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978 (Presidential Decree No. 1464), as amended, empower the President, upon the recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority, to increase, reduce or remove existing protective rates of import duty, as well as to modify the form of duty.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The following articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code, as amended, shall have rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article as listed below:

HDG. HARMONIZED Rate of Duty, (%)
NO.   SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
CODE 1 January
1997 1998 1999 2000
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

76.04 Aluminium bars, rods and profiles.

7604.10 00 - x x x

- Of aluminium alloys

7604.21 00 -- x x x
7604.29    -- Other
7604.29 10 --- Y-shape profiles for zippers, in coils 3 3 3 3
7604.29 90 --- Other 20 10 10 10

   - Of aluminium, not alloyed:

Bobbins, spools and
similar supports for
textile yarn 3 3 3 3

sound recording or similar recording
of other phenomena, other than
products of Chapter 37.
- x x x

Sec. 2. The nomenclature and the rates of import duty on tariff headings not enumerated and those listed but represented by the symbol “x x x” shall remain in force and effect.

Sec. 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, the abovementioned articles which are entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates of duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 4. All Presidential issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified accordingly.

Sec. 5. This Executive Order shall take effect thirty (30) days following its complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 17th of January in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven .
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