EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 71 - MODIFYING THE RATES OF DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978, AS AMENDED, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE 1999-2003 PHILIPPINE SCHEDULE OF TARIFF REDUCTION OF PRODUCTS TRANSFERRED FROM THE TEMPORARY EXCLUSION LIST TO THE INCLUSION LIST UNDER THE NEW TIME FRAME OF THE ACCELERATED COMMON EFFECTIVE PREFERENTIAL TARIFF SCHEME FOR THE ASEAN FREE TRADE AREA (CEPT-AFTA)

WHEREAS, at the 12th Meeting of the AFTA Council held in Manila, Philippines on 6 October 1998, it was agreed that ASEAN Member Countries shall prepare the legal enactment to implement the schedule of the tariff reductions of products transferred from the Temporary Exclusion List (TEL) to the Inclusion List under the new time frame covering the period from 1999-2003.  

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the powers vested in me under Sec. 402 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, do hereby order:

Section 1. The articles specifically listed in Annex “A” (Articles Granted Concessions Under the CEPT-AFTA) hereof as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff in accordance with the 1999-2003 schedule indicated in Columns 4-8 of Annex “A”. The CEPT rates so indicated shall be accorded to any ASEAN Member State as soon as that country implements its CEPT tariff reduction schedules on the articles specified in Annex “A” hereof.

Sec. 2. In the event that any subsequent changes are made in the basic (MFN) Philippine rate of duty on any of the articles listed in Annex “A” to a rate lower than the rate prescribed in Columns 4-8, such article shall automatically be accorded the corresponding reduced rate of duty.

Sec. 3. The Margins of Preference (MOPs) accorded under the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements shall no longer be extended to any of the products listed in Annex “A” hereof.  

Sec. 4. From the date of effectivity of this Order, all articles listed in Annex “A” entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be imposed the rates of duty therein prescribed subject to qualification under the Rules of Origin as provided for in the Agreement on the CEPT Scheme for the AFTA signed on 28 January 1992.

Sec. 5. All decrees, order, issuances, and rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are contrary to or inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Sec. 6. This Executive Order shall take effect 1 January 1999.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 15th day of January in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Nine.  

ANNEX “A”
ARTICLES GRANTED CONCESSIONS UNDER THE COMMON EFFECTIVE PREFERENTIAL TARIFF (CEPT) SCHEME FOR THE ASEAN FREE TRADE AREA (AFTA)

HDG. HARMONIZED APPLICABLE ASEAN CEPT RATE (%)
NO. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 1 January of Year
CODE 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

01.02 Live bovine animals.

ex 0102.90 00 - Other, excluding feeder cattle
weighing not more than 330 kg. 3 3 3 3 3
01.05 Live poultry, that is to say,
fowls of the species Gallus
domesticus, ducks, geese,
turkeys and guinea fowls.

- Other:
0105.9 -- Other:
0105.99 90 --- Other:
0105.99 91 ---- In-Quota 20 20 10 10 5
0105.99 92 ----- Out-Quota 20 20 10 10 5
02.01 Meat of bovine animals, fresh
or chilled.

0201.30 00 - Boneless 20 10 10 10 5
02.02 Meat of bovine animals, frozen.

0202.30 00 - Boneless 20 10 10 10 5
02.04 Meat of sheep or goats, fresh,
chilled or frozen.

0204.50 - Meat of goats:
0204.50 00 --- In-Quota 20 20 10 10 5
0204.50 20 --- Out-Quota 20 20 10 10 5
02.10 Meat and edible meat offal,
salted, in brine, dried or
smoked; edible flours and
meals of meat or meat offal
0210.90 - Other, including edible flours
and meals of meat or meat
offal;
0210.90 10 --- Freeze dried chicken dice 20 20 10 10 5
0210.90 90 --- Other:
0210.90 91 ---- In-Quota 20 20 10 10 5
0210.90 92 ---- Out-Quota 20 20 10 10 5
03.04 Fish fillets and other fish
meat (whether or not
minced), fresh, chilled or
frozen.

0304.10 00 - Fresh or chilled 10 7 7 7 5
0304.20 00 - Frozen fillets 10 7 7 7 5
0304.90 00 - Other 10 7 7 7 5
03.05 Fish, dried, salted or in
brine; smoked fish, whether
or not cooked before or
during the smoking
process; flours, meals and
pellets of fish, fit for
human consumption.

- Smoked fish, including fillets:
0305.42 00 -- Herrings (Clupea harengus,
Clupea pallasii) 20 15 10 10 5
0305.49 00 -- Other 20 15 10 10 5
- Dried fish, whether or not
salted but not smoked:
0305.59 00 -- Other 20 15 10 10 5
- Fish, salted but not dried or
smoked and fish in brine:
0305.61 00 -- Herrings (Clupea harengus,
Clupea pallasii) 20 15 10 10 5
0305.63 00 -- Anchovies (Engraulis spp.) 20 15 10 10 5
0305.69 00 -- Other 20 15 10 10 5
06.03 Cut flowers and flower
buds of a kind suitable for
bouquets or for
ornamental purposes,
fresh, dried, dyed
bleached, impregnated or
otherwise prepared.

0603.10 00 - Fresh 20 15 10 10 5
0603.90 00 - Other 20 15 10 10 5
07.02 0702.00 00 Tomatoes, fresh or chilled. 15 10 10 10 5
07.08 Leguminous vegetables,
shelled or unshelled, fresh
or chilled.

0708.10 00 - Peas (Pisum sativum) 15 10 10 10 5
0708.20 00 - Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus
spp.) 15 10 10 10 5
0708.90 00 - Other leguminous vegetables 15 10 10 10 5
07.10 Vegetables (uncooked or
cooked by steaming or
boiling in water), frozen.

0710.10 00 - Potatoes 15 10 10 10 5
- Leguminous vegetables,
shelled or unshelled:
0710.21 00 -- Peas (Pisum sativum) 15 10 10 10 5
0710.22 00 -- Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus
spp.) 15 10 10 10 5
0710.29 00 -- Other 15 10 10 10 5
0710.30 00 - Spinach, New Zealand
spinach and orache spinach
(garden spinach) 15 10 10 10 5
0710.40 00 - Sweet corn 15 10 10 10 5
0710.80 00 - Other vegetables     15 10 10 10 5
0710.90 00 - Mixture of vegetables 15  10    10  10 5
07.11 Vegetables provisionally

preserved (for example, by
sulphur dioxide gas, in
brine, in sulphur water or in
other preservative
solutions), but unsuitable
in that state for immediate
consumption.

sliced, broken or in powder,
but not further prepared.

Jerusalem artichokes,
sweet potatoes and similar
roots and tubers with high
starch or inulin content,
fresh, chilled, frozen or
dried, whether or not
sliced or in the form of
pellets; sago pith.

cashew nuts, fresh or
dried, whether or not
shelled or peeled.
- Coconuts: 20   15  10  10  5

tangerines and satsumas);
clementines, wilkings and
similar citrus hybrids   15 10  10   10 5

Citrus limonum) and limes
(Citrus aurantifolia) 15   10 10 10 5

or cooked by steaming or
boiling in water, frozen,
whether or not containing
added sugar or other
sweetening matter.

preserved (for example, by
sulphur dioxide gas, in
brine, in sulphur water or in
other preservative
solutions), but unsuitable
in that state for immediate
consumption.

or decaffeinated; coffee husks and
skins; coffee substitutes
containing coffee in any
proportion.
- Coffee, not roasted:

dried or crushed or ground
fruits of the genus
Capsicum or the genus
Pimenta.
- Pepper:

of the genus Pimenta, dried or
crushed or ground   10  7 7   7  5

the dried leguminous
vegetables of heading No.
07.13, of sago or of roots or
tubers of heading No. 07.14
or of the products of
Chapter 8.

cooked, whether or not
shelled or broken.

whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified.

whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified.

whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified.

or cotton-seed oil and
fractions thereof, whether
or not refined, but not
chemically modified.
- Sunflower-seed or safflower oil
and fractions thereof:

kernel or babassu oil and
fractions thereof, whether
or not refined, but not
chemically modified.
- Coconut (copra) oil and its
fractions

    - Palm kernel or babassu oil
and fractions thereof:

and oils (including jojoba
oil) and their fractions,
whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified.
- Maize (corn) oil and its
fractions:

fish; caviar and caviar
substitutes prepared from
fish eggs.
- Fish, whole or pieces,
but not minced:

pure sucrose, in solid form.
- Other:

added sugar or other
sweetening matter. 10    7  3 3 3

slabs or bars weighing more than
2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder,
granular or other bulk form in
containers or immediate packings,
of a content exceeding 2 kg   10  10 10 3  3
- Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

other bakers’ wares, whether or
not containing cocoa; communion
wafers, empty cachets of a kind
suitable for pharmaceutical use,
sealing wafers, rice paper and
similar products.

edible parts of plants, prepared or
preserved by vinegar or acetic
acid.

  preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid.

  and other parts of plants, preserved
by sugar (drained, glace or
cystallised) excluding unshelled
beans, olives and other vegetables
   (except peas, shelled beans,
asparagus and sweet corn) and
mixtures of vegetables, preserved
by sugar, whether or not frozen 20 15 10 10 5

fruit or nut puree and fruit or
nut pastes, being cooked
preparations, whether or not
containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter.

than of mango, pineapple or
strawberries

of plants, otherwise prepared or
preserved, whether or not containing
added sugar or other sweetening
matter or spirit, not elsewhere
specified or included.
- Nuts, ground-nuts and other
seeds, whether or not mixed
together:

and vegetable juices, unfermented
and not containing added spirit,
whether or not containing added
sugar or other sweetening matter.
- Orange juice:

mixed condiments and mixed
seasonings; mustard flour and
meal and prepared mustard.

- Amino-acids and their esters, other
than those containing more than one
kind of oxygen function; salts thereof:

developed, whether or not incorporating
sound track or consisting only
  of sound track.

fungicides, herbicides, anti-
sprouting products and
plant-growth regulators, dis-
infectants and similar
products, put up in forms or
packings for retail sale or as
preparations or articles (for
example, sulphur-treated bands,
wicks and candles, and fly-papers).

acids; acid oils from refining;
industrial fatty alcohols.
- Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids;
acid oils from refining:

similar laminated wood.
- Plywood consisting solely of
sheets of wood, each ply not
exceeding 6mm thickness:

tropical wood specified in
Subheading Note 1 to this
Chapter

- Other, with at least one outer ply
of non-coniferous wood:

wood specified in Subheading
Note 1 to this Chapter

wood specified in Subheading
Note 1 to this Chapter

of a kind used for writing, printing
or other graphic purposes, and
punch card stock and punch tape
paper, in rolls or sheets, other
than paper of heading No. 48.01
or 48.03; hand-made paper and
paperboard.

- Other paper and paperboard, not
containing fibres obtained by a
mechanical process or of which
not more than 10% by weight of
the total fibre content consists of
such fibres:

which more than 10% by weight
of the total fibre consists of fibres
obtained by a mechanical
process   15 10 3 3 3

or napkin stock and similar paper
of a kind used for household or
sanitary purposes, cellulose
wadding and webs of cellulose
fibres, whether or not creped,
crinkled, embossed, perforated,
surface-coloured, surface-
decorated or printed, in rolls
of sheets.

on one or both sides with kaolin
(China clay) or other inorganic
substances, with or without a
binder, and with no other coating,
whether or not surface-coloured,
surface-decorated or printed, in
rolls or sheets.
- Kraft paper and paperboard,
other than that of a kind used for
writing, printing or other graphic
purposes:

postcards and correspondence
cards, of paper or paperboard;
boxes, pouches, wallets and
writing compendiums, of paper or
paperboard, containing an
assortment of paper stationery.

  writing compendiums, of paper
   or paper-board, containing an
  assortment of paper stationery 20 20 15 10 5

cellulose wadding or webs of
cellulose fibres, of a
kind used for household or sanitary
purposes, in rolls of a width not
exceeding 36 cm. or cut to size or shape;
handkerchiefs, cleansing tissues, towels,
tablecloths, serviettes, napkins for
babies, tampons, bed sheets and similar
household, sanitary or hospital articles,
articles of apparel and clothing
accessories, of paper pulp, paper,
cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose

pads, diaries and similar articles,
exercise books, blotting-pads,
binders (loose-leaf or other),
  folders, file covers, manifold
business forms, interleaved
   carbon sets and other articles of
   stationery, of paper or
  paperboard; albums for samples
or for collections and book
   covers, of paper or paperboard.