EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 166 - MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY OF CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED), IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE ASEAN INTEGRATION SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (AISP) PACKAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

WHEREAS, at the 4th ASEAN Informal Summit held in Singapore in November 2000, the ASEAN Heads of Government/State agreed on the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) with objectives to narrow the development gap between the older and newer members of ASEAN, and to enhance the new members integration with the rest of the ASEAN;

WHEREAS, to implement the decision of the ASEAN Heads of Government/State, the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM), in its meeting in Siemreap, Cambodia on 3-5 May 2001, decided to implement the ASEAN GSP Scheme (now AISP) on a bilateral basis;  

WHEREAS, the preference is a unilateral offer made by preference-giving countries (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) to the preference receiving countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam);

WHEREAS, Sec. 402 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, empowers 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, 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” (Articles Granted Concession under the ASEAN Integration System of Preferences (AISP) Package of the Philippines) hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the AISP rate of duty indicated in Column 4 of “Annex A” when imported from Myanmar or Vietnam (preference receiving countries) indicated in Column 5 of “Annex A”.

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 Column 4 of “Annex A”, such article shall automatically be accorded the corresponding reduced duty.

Sec. 3. From the date of effectivity of this Order, all articles listed in “Annex A” entered into or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be imposed the rates of duty therein prescribed subject to qualification under the Rules of Origin of forty percent (40%) single country content (Myanmar or Vietnam) as provided for in the Agreement on the CEPT Scheme for the AFTA signed on 28 January 1992.

Sec. 4. All presidential issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are contrary or inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed 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 10th day of January, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Three.

“Annex A”
ARTICLES GRANTED CONCESSION UNDER THE ASEAN INTEGRATION SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (AISP) PACKAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Applicable
Hdg. No.    H.S. Code  Description  AISP   Preference
Rate (%) Receiving
2003    Country
   (1) (2)     (3)   (4)    (5)

04.10 0410.00 00 Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere Free Myanmar
  specified or included.

05.02 Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair, badger hair

and other brush making hair, waste of such
bristles or hair.
  0502.10 00 - Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair and waste Free Myanmar
thereof

or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether
or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further
worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for
preservation; powder and waste of feathers or
parts of feathers.
  0505.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid
or degelatinised; powder and waste of these
products.
  0505.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and
beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to
shape; powder and waste of these products.
0507.10 00 - Ivory; ivory powder and waste Free Myanmar

prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of
molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and
cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut
to shape, powder and waste thereof.

or caraway; juniper berries.
  0909.10 00 - Seeds of anise or badian Free Myanmar

not broken.
  - Other:
1207.99 00  - - Other Free Myanmar

other than those of mustard.
  1208.10 00 - Of soya beans Free Myanmar

sowing.
- Beet seed:
1209.19 00 - - Other Free Myanmar

fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in
pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar
purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut,
crushed or powdered.
  1211.10 00 - Liquorice roots Free Myanmar
1211.20 00 - Ginseng roots Free Myanmar
  1211.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or
dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and
kernels and other vegetable products (including
unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium
intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for
human consumption, not elsewhere specified or
included.
1212.10 00 - Locust beans, including locust been seeds Free Myanmar

plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds,
rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed
cereal straw, and lime bark).

  1401.10 00 - x x x
  1401.20 00 - Rattans Free Myanmar
  1401.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

brooms or in brushes (for example, broomcorn,
piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in
hanks or bundles.
  1403.10 00 - Broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare var. technicum) Free Myanmar
1403.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

included.
  1404.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar
Free Myanmar

wax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether
or not refined or coloured.
  1521.10 00 - Vegetable waxes Free Myanmar

pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous
solution or containing added anti-caking or
free-flowing agents; sea water.

coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of
Chapter 26.
  2505.10 00 - Silica sands and quartz sands Free CLMV

manufactured from coal.
- Coal, whether or not pulverised, but not
agglomerated:
2701.11 00 - - Anthracite Free Vietnam

- Rare gases:
2804.29 00 - - Other Free Myanmar

2812.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

chlorites; hypobromites.
  2828.10 00 - Commercial calcium hypochlorite and other calcium Free Myanmar
hypochlorites

(persulphates).
  - Sodium sulphates:
2833.19 00 - - Other Free Myanmar

No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of two or
more constituents which have been mixed
together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not
put up in measured doses or in forms or packings
for retail sale.
- Containing hormones or other products of heading
No. 29.37 but not containing antibiotics:
3003.31 00 - - Containing insulin Free Myanmar
3003.39 00 - - Other Free Myanmar
3003.40 00 - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not Free Myanmar
containing hormones or other products of heading
No. 29.37 or antibiotics

No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or
unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic
uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or
packings for retail sale.
- Containing hormones or other products of heading
No. 29.37 but not containing antibiotics:
  3004.31 00 - - Containing insulin Free Myanmar
  3004.39 00 - - Other Free Myanmar
  3004.40 00 - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not Free Myanmar
containing hormones, other products of heading
No. 29.37 or antibiotics
  3004.90 - Other:
3004.90 10 - - - Specialized medicines for cancer, AIDS and other Free Myanmar
dread diseases
3004.90 20 - - - Closed sterile water system for inhalation, Free Myanmar
pharmaceutical grade (USP, NF or BP)

example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices),
impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical
substances or put up in forms or packings for
retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or
veterinary purposes.
   3005.10 - Adhesive dressings and other articles having an
adhesive layer:
3005.10 10 - - - Specialized transdermal therapeutic system (TTS) Free Myanmar
patches for cancer and heart diseases

their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives.
   3201.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or
chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed
or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions
as defined in Note 4 to this Chapter.
  3208.20 - Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers:
3208.20 10 - - - Cavity lining and varnish for dental use Free Myanmar

denture fixative pastes and powders; yarn used to
clean between the teeth (dental floss), in
individual retail packages.
    3306.10 - Dentifrices:
3306.10 10 - - - Prophylactic paste and powder for dental use Free Myanmar

preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars,
cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not
containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and
nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with
soap or detergent.
   3401.20 - Soap in other forms:
3401.20 10 - - - Soap for flotation deinking of recycled paper Free Myanmar

example, pregelatinised or esterified starches);
glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other
modified starches.
  3505.10 00 - Dextrins and other modified starches:
ex  3505.10 00 Dextrins 3 All
  ex  3505.10 00 Other modified starches Free Vietnam

rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums.
  3806.10 00  Rosin and resin acids Free Vietnam

(fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise
preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or
further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split.
   4101.10 00 - Whole hides and skins of bovine animals, of a Free Myanmar
weight per skin not exceeding 8 kg when simply
dried, 10 kg when dry-salted, or 14 kg when fresh,
wet-salted or otherwise preserved

limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not
tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared),
whether or not dehaired or split, other than those
excluded by Note 1(b) or 1(c) to this Chapter.
  4103.10 00 - Of goats or kids Free Myanmar
4103.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

on, other than leather of healing No. 41.08 or
41.09.
- Other bovine leather and equine leather, tanned or
retanned but not further prepared, whether or not
split:
4104.21 00 - - Bovine leather, vegetable pre-tanned Free Myanmar
   4104.22 - - Bovine leather, otherwise pre-tanned:
4104.22 10 - - - Chrome-wet-blue hides and skins Free Myanmar
   4104.29 - - Other.
4104.29 10 - - - Chrome-wet-blue hides and skins and crust Free Myanmar
vegetable (semi-tanned) hides and skins

than leather of heading No. 41.08 or 41.09.
  - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared,
whether or not split:
4105.11 00 - - Vegetable pre-tanned Free Myanmar

than leather of heading No. 41.08 or 41.09.
  - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared,
whether or not split:
4106.11 00 - - Vegetable pre-tanned Free Myanmar

or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles;
sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or
not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or
similar forms.
  - Wood in chips or particles:
4401.21 00 - - Coniferous Free Myanmar

bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
  4403.20 00 - Other, coniferous Free Myanmar

scrap) paper or paperboard or of other fibrous
cellulosic material.
   4706.20 00 - Pulps of fibres derived from recovered (waste and Free Myanmar
scrap) paper or paperboard
- Other:
4706.92 00 - - Chemical Free Myanmar

paperboard.
  4707.10 00 - Of unbleached kraft paper or paperboard or of Free Myanmar
corrugated paper or paperboard

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:
4802.52 - - Weighing 40 g/m2 or more but not more than
150 g/m2:
4802.52 10 - - -Fancy paper and paperboard including with Free Myanmar
watermarks, 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

heading No. 58.07; narrow fabrics consisting of
warp without weft assembled by means of an
adhesive (bolducs).
- Other woven fabrics:
5806.31 10 - - -Narrow woven fabrics of the kind being processed Free Myanmar
into inked ribbon for typewriters and similar
machines; backing for electrical insulating tape, of
cotton
  5806.31 20 - - - Textile sequencial markers used in the Free Myanmar
manufacture of electrical wires

  - Other.
6506.92 00 - - Of furskin Free Myanmar

semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded
but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded
precious stones (other than diamonds) and
semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for
convenience of transport.
  7103.10 00 - Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped Free Myanmar
- Otherwise worked:
7103.91 00 - - Rubies, sapphires and emeralds Free Myanmar

example, open seam or welded, riveted or
similarly closed), of iron or steel.
  7306.90 - Other:
7306.90 10 - - - Bundy-weld pipes and tubes Free Vietnam

exceeding 0.15 mm.
  - Of copper-tin base alloys (bronze):
7409.39 00 - - Other Free Myanmar

   couplings, elbows, sleeves).
  7412.10 00 - Of refined copper Free Myanmar

  7801.10 00 - Refined lead Free Myanmar

generating sets).
- AC generators (alternators):
8501.61 00 - - Of an output not exceeding 75 kVA Free Myanmar

example, rectifiers) and inductors.
- Other transformers:
8404.31 - - Having a power handling capacity not exceeding
1 kVA:
8504.31 10 - - - Instrument potential transformers Free Myanmar
  8504.31 30 - - - Flyback transformers Free Myanmar
   8504.31 40 - - - Intermediate frequency transformers Free Myanmar

used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition
internal combustion engines (for example, ignition
magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils,
sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors);
generators (for example, dynamos, alternators)
and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with
such engines.
  8511.30 - Distributors; ignition coils:
8511.30 10 - - - For aircraft use Free Myanmar
  8511.30 20 - - - Unassembled distributors and unassembled Free Myanmar
ignition coils

electrical circuits, or for making connections to or
in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays,
fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets,
lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not
exceeding 1,000 volts.
  8536.50 - Other switches:
8536.50 10 - - - High inrush switches and commutators for stoves
and ranges; microphone switches; power switches
for television or radio receivers; switches for
electric fans; rotary, slide, see-saw and magnetic
switches for air conditioning machines; miniature
switches for rice cookers or oven toasters
  8536.90 - Other apparatus:
8536.90 10 - - - Connection and contact elements for wires and Free Myanmar
cables; wafer probers

and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas-filled
valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying
valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television
camera tubes).
- Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video
monitor cathode-ray tubes:
8540.11 00 - - Colour Free Myanmar

devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices,
including photovoltaic cells whether or not
assembled in modules or made up into panels;
light emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric
crystals.
8541.90 00 - Parts Free Myanmar

surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including
scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical
apparatus and sight-testing instruments.
- Electro-diagnostic apparatus (including apparatus for
functional exploratory examination or for checking
physiological parameters):
9018.19 00 - - Other Free Myanmar