EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 83 - MODIFYING THE NOMENCLATURE AND THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON VARIOUS PRODUCTS UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED)

WHEREAS, the modification in the rates of duty of imported raw materials will provide the necessary assistance to domestic industries to be globally competitive vis-a-vis foreign counterparts; 

WHEREAS, in these times of economic difficulty, local industries need all the assistance they can get from government to keep their business afloat;

WHEREAS, Sec. 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, empowers the President to increase, reduce or remove existing rates of duty, as well as to modify the tariff nomenclature.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The articles specifically listed in “Annex A” hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article.

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the effectivity of this Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in the aforesaid “Annex” which are entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates of duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 4. All other 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 immediately following its complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Two.

ANNEX “A”

HDG. H.S. DESCRIPTION RATE OF
NO. CODE DUTY (%)

04.05 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads.

0405.10 00 - X X X
0405.20 00 - X X X
0405.90 00 - Other 1
07.13 Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split.

0713.10 00 - XXX
0713.20 00 - XXX
- Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.):
0713.31 00 - - XXX
0713.32 00 - - XXX
0713.33 00 - - Kidney beans, including white pea beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) 1
0713.39 00 - - XXX
to
0713.90 00
11.05 Flour, meat, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes.

1105.10 00 - Flour, meal and powder 1
1105.20 00 - XXX
11.07 Malt, whether or not roasted.

1107.10 00 -Not roasted   1
1107.20 00 - Roasted 1
12.10 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or
  in the form of pellets; lupulin.

1210.10 00 - Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets 1
1210.20 00 - Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin     1
13.02 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates

and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners,
whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products.
- Vegetable saps and extracts:

extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by
weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not
elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of
headings Nos. 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or
containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a
totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included.

drink industries; other food preparations to be used as raw
materials in preparing composite concentrates for making
beverages

dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing
small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other
magnesium oxide, whether or not pure.

   not concentrated or solid.
- Printing ink

preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary
washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or
not containing soap, other than those of heading No. 34.01.
- Organic surface-active agents, whether or not put up for retail sale.

  compositions, other than products of heading No. 38.01.

products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries
(including those consisting of mixtures of natural products),
not elsewhere specified or included; residual products of the
chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or
included.

2002-7
2003-7
2004-5

cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly
combined with other materials.

2002-7
2003-7
2004-5

or paperboard or of other fibrous cellulosic material.

paperboard
- Other.

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 1096 by weight of
the total fibre content consists of such fibres:

granatized felt finish, fibers or blend of specks and vellum
antique finish weighing 40 g/m2 or more but not more than
150 g/m2

granatized felt finish, fibers or blend of specks and vellum
antique finish weighing more than 150 g/m2

than that of heading No. 48.02 or 48.03.
   - XXX

- Other kraft paper and paperboard weighing more than 150 g/m2
but less than 225 g/m

  - Other kraft paper and paperboard weighing 225 g/m2 or more:

further worked or processed than as specified in Note 2 to this
Chapter.

glassine and other glazed transparent or translucent papers, in
rolls or sheets.

papers (including coated or impregnated paper for duplicator
stencils or offset plates), whether or not printed, in rolls or sheets.

(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.
- Paper and paperboard of a kind used for writing, printing or other
graphic purposes, 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:

- Paper and paperboard of a kind used for writing, printing or other
graphic purposes, of which more than 10% by weight of the total
fibre content consists of fibres obtained by a mechanical process:

- Kraft paper and paperboard, other than that of a kind used for
writing, printing or other graphic purposes:

95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres
obtained by a chemical process, and weighing 150 g/m2 or less

95% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood fibres
obtained by a chemical process, and weighing more than
150 g/m2

fibres, coated, impregnated, covered, surface-coloured,
surface-decorated or printed, in rolls or sheets, other than
goods of the kind described In heading No. 48.03, 48.09 or 48.10.

- Paper and paperboard coated, impregnated or covered with
plastics (excluding adhesives):

fibres

papers (other than those of heading No. 48.09), duplicator
stencils and offset plates, of paper, whether or not put up in boxes.

cellulose fibres, cut to size or shape; other articles of paper
pulp, paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres.

- Other paper and paperboard, of a kind used for writing, printing or
other graphic purposes:

used for the manufacture of papercup bottoms), in reels of a
width of less than 10 cm

- Other woven fabrics, containing 85% or more by weight of
filaments of nylon or other polyamides:

braided and whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or
sheathed with rubber or plastics.

measuring more than 10,000 decitex, used in the manufacture
of textile packings

or laminated with rubber leather or other material, of a kind used
for card clothing, and similar fabrics of a kind used for other
technical purposes, including narrow fabrics made of velvet
impregnated with rubber, for covering weaving spindles (weaving beams)

frameworks, for grinding, sharpening, polishing, trueing or
cutting, hand sharpening or polishing stones, and parts
thereof, of natural stone, of agglomerated natural or artificial
abrasives, or of ceramics, with or without parts of other materials.

vermiculite, expanded clays, foamed slag and similar
expanded mineral materials; mixtures and articles of heat-
insulating, sound-insulating or sound-absorbing mineral
materials, other than those of heading No. 68.11 or 68.12 or of
Chapter 69.

or with a basis of asbestos and magnesium carbonate; articles
of such mixtures or of asbestos (for example, thread, woven
fabric, clothing, headgear, footwear, gaskets), whether or not
reinforced, other than goods of heading No. 68.11 or 68.13.

carbon fibres, articles of carbon fibres and articles of peat),
not elsewhere specified or included.

containers, of glass, of a kind used for the conveyance or
packing of goods; preserving jars of glass; stoppers, lids and
other closures, of glass.

parts thereof, without fittings, for electric lamps, cathode-ray
tubes or the like.

paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials), of a
thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.15 mm.
   - XXX

stocks (Alloy 5182, 5052 or 5042, of temper H19, H39 or H48);
Tab stocks (Alloy 5182, 5082 or 5042, of temper H19, H39,
H48 or H391), in coils

meter wrenches but not including tap wrenches);
interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles.
- Hand-operated spanners and wrenches:

specified or included; blow lamps; vices, clamps and the like,
other than accessories for and parts of, machine tools; anvils;
portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with
frameworks.
8205.10 00 - Drilling, threading or tapping tools 1
8205.20 00 - XXX
to
8205.90 00

recording of other phenomena, other than products of Chapter 37.
- Magnetic tapes:

8523.11 - - XXX
to
8523.12 90
8523.13 - - Of a width exceeding 6.5 mm:
8523.13 10 - - - XXX
8523.13 20 - - - In pancake or jumbo forms    3
8523.13 90 - - - XXX
8523.20   - XXX
to
8523.90 90