EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 84 - MODIFYING THE NOMENCLATURE AND THE MOST-FAVOURED-NATION (MFN) RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON VARIOUS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED)

WHEREAS, the government has continued to implement a tariff rationalization program aimed at promoting global competitiveness and providing for a level playing field for the agriculture sector;

WHEREAS, the government needs to extend the existing MFN tariff rates on some agricultural products to help the agriculture sector to be efficient and globally competitive;

WHEREAS, Sec. 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, empowers the President to increase, reduce or remove existing protective rates of import 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 MFN rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article.

Sec. 2. The nomenclature and the MFN 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the effectivity of this Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in the aforesaid “Annex” which are entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates of duty as indicated therein. 

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 thirty (30) days 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   RATE OF DUTY (%)
NO. CODE DESCRIPTION   01 January
2002 2003     2004
02.03 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen.

- Fresh or chilled:

0203.11 - - Carcasses and half-carcasses:
0203.11 10 - - - XXX
0203.11 20 - - - Out-Quota   60 40 40
0203.12 - - Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof with bone in:
0203.12 10 - - - XXX
0203.12 20 - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0203.19  - - Other:
0203.19 10 - - - Pork bellies:
0203.19 11 - - - - XXX
0203.19 12 - - - - Out-Quota    60 40 40
0203.19 20 - - - Fore-ends and cuts thereof:
0203.19 21 - - - - XXX
0203.19 22 - - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0203.19 90 - - - Other:
0203.19 91 - - - - XXX
0203.19 92 - - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
    - Frozen:
0203.21  - - Carcasses and half-carcasses:
0203.21 10 - - - XXX
0203.21 20  - - - Out-Quota  60 40 40
0203.22 - - Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof with bone in:
0203.22 10 - - - XXX
0203.22 20     - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0203.29   - - Other:
0203.29 10 - - - Pork bellies:
0203.29 11 - - - - XXX
0203.29 12 - - - - Out-Quota   60 40 40
0203.2920  - - - Fore-ends and cuts thereof.
0203.29 21 - - - - XXX
0203.29 22 - - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0203.29 90 - - - Other:
0203.29 91 - - - - XXX
0203.29 92 - - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40

0204.10 00
to
0204.43 00 - - XXX
0204.50   - Meat of goats:
0204.50 10 - - - XXX
0204.50 20 - - - Out-Quota     40 35 35

horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or
frozen.
0206.10 00  -Of bovine animals, fresh or chilled 7 7 5
- Of bovine animals, frozen:
0206.21 00 - - Tongues     7 7 5
0206.22 00 - - Livers 5 5 5
0206.29 00 - - Other   7 7 5
0206.30 00 - Of swine, fresh or chilled 7 7 5
- Of swine, frozen:
0206.41 00 - - Livers 5 5 5
0206.49 00 - - Other     10 10 10
0206.80 00 - Other, fresh or chilled   3 3 3
0206.90 00 - Other, frozen    3 3 3

01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
- Of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus

0207.11     - - Not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled:
0207.11 10 - - - In-Quota 40 40 40
0207.11 20 - - - Out-Quota  60 40 40
0207.12   - - Not cut in pieces, frozen:
0207.12 10 - - - In-Quota     40 40 40
0207.12 20 - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0207.13   - - Cuts and offal, fresh or chilled:
0207.1310 - - - In-Quota 40 40 40
0207.13 20  - - - Out-Quota   60 40 40
0207.14 - - Cuts and offal, frozen:
0207.14 10 - - - Liver:
0207.14 11 - - - - In-Quota   40 40 40
0207.14 12 - - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0207.14 90 - - - Other:
0207.14 91 - - - - In-Quota   40 40 40
0207.14 92 - - - - Out-Quota 50 40 40
  - Of turkeys:
0207.24 - - Not art in pieces, fresh or chilled:
0207.24 10 - - - In-Quota  40 40 40
0207.24 20 - - - Out-Quota   60 40 40
0207.25 - - Not art in pieces, frozen:
0207.25 10 - - - XXX
0207.25 20 - - - Out-Quota   40 35 35
0207.26   - - Cuts and offal, fresh or chilled:
0207.26 10     - - - In-Quota 40 40 40
0207.26 20     - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0207.27 - - Cuts and offal, frozen:
0207.27 10 - - - Liver:
0207.27 11 - - - - In-Quota  40 40 40
0207.27 12 - - - - Out-Quota 60 40 40
0207.27 90 - - - Other:
0207.27 91 - - - - XXX
0207.27 92 - - - - Out-Quota   40 40 40
   - Of ducks, geese or guinea fowls:
0207.32   - - Not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled:
0207.32 10 - - - Of ducks:
0207.32 11 - - - - In-Quota    40 40 40
0207.32 12 - - - - Out-Quota   60 40 40
0207.32 20  - - - Of geese or guinea fowls:
0207.32 21 - - - - X X X
0207.32 22 - - - - Out-Quota 45 40 40
0207.33 - - Not cut in pieces, frozen:
0207.33 10 - - - In-Quota 40 40 40
0207.33 20 - - - Out-Quota   50 40 40
0207.34   - - Fatty livers, fresh or chilled:
0207.34 10     - - - In-Quota 40 40 40
0207.34 20 - - - Out-Quota    60 40 40
0207.35 - - Other, fresh or chilled:
0207.35 10 - - - In-Quota     40 40 40
0207.35 20 - - - Out-Quota    60 40 40
0207.36   - - Other, frozen:
0207.36 10 - - - Fatty livers:
0207.36 11 - - - - In-Quota     40 40 40
0207.36 12 - - - - Out-Quota   60 40 40
0207.36 90 - - - Other:
0207.36 91 - - - - In-Quota     40 40 40
0207.36 92 - - - - Out-Quota 50 40 40

smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal.
- Meat of swine:

0210.11 00 - - Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in 60 40 40
0210.12 00 - - Bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof    60 40 40
0210.19 00 - - Other 60 40 40
0210.20 00 - XXX
0210.90   - Other, including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:
0210.90 10 - - - XXX
0210.90 20 - - - XXX
0210.90 90 - - - Other    60 40 40

1005.10 00    - XXX
1005.90    - Other:
1005.90 10 - - - XXX
1005.90 90 - - - Other:
1005.90 91  - - - - XXX
1005.90 92 - - - - Out-Quota   65 50 50

- Raw sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring matter.

1701.11 - - Cane sugar:
1701.11 10 - - - XXX
1701.11 20 - - - Out-Quota   65 50 50
1701.12 - - Beet sugar.
1701.12 10 - - - XXX
1701.12 20 - - - Out-Quota  65 50 50
  - Other:
1701.91 - - Containing added flavouring or colouring matter:
1701.91 10 - - - XXX
1701.91 20 - - - Out-Quota  55 50 50
1701.99 - - Other:
1701.99 10 - - - XXX
1701.99 20 - - - Out-Quota   65 50 50