MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 31, January 25, 1963 ]
MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NUMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES
Pursuant to the powers vested in me by section 401 of Republic Act Number Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:
Section 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under section 104 of Republic Act Number Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven shall pay the following rates of import duty:
| Heading No. |
Description of Articles |
Rate of Duty |
| 4.03 |
Butter:
A. * * * * *
B. Other ............... ad. val. 70% or n.w., Kg. |
P2.60 |
| 11.02 |
Cereal groats and cereal meal; other worked cereal grains (e.g., rolled or flaked, with or without heat-treatment, polished, pearled or crushed, or enriched by vitamins or minerals but not further prepared), except husked, glazed, polished or broken rice; edible germ of cereals:
A. Oat groats............ g.w., 100 kgs.
B. Other................... g.w., 100 kgs. |
P15.00
P30.00
|
| 12.01 |
Oil seeds and oeaginous fruit, whole or broken:
A. * * * * * *
B. * * * * * *
C. Soybeans ............ g.w., 100 kgs.
D. Other ................ g.w., 100 kgs. |
P25.00
P50.00 |
| 12.07 |
Plants and parts of plants, seeds and fruits, being articles of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal and similar purposes, fresh or dried, whole, crushed, ground or powdered:
A. Pyrethrum ............ ad. val. 20%
B. Other ....... ad. val 40% |
|
| 19.07 |
Bread, ship's biscuits and other ordinary bakers' products, not containing sugar, honey, eggs, fats, cheese or fruit.......... g.w., 100 kgs. |
P60.00 |
| 19.08 |
Pastry, biscuits, cakes and other fine bakers' products, whether or not containing cocoa in any proportion.......... g.w., 100 kgs. |
P80.00 |
| 29.23 |
Single or complex oxygen-function amino-compounds:
A. Monosodium Glutamate.......... n.w., kg. or ad. val. 50%
B. Other.......... ad. val. 10% |
P3.00 |
| 35.03 |
Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangles, whether or not colored or surface-worked) and gelatin derivatives; glues derived from bones, hides, nerves, tendons, or similar products, and fish glues; isinglass:
A. Animal glue.......... ad. val. 30%
B. Other.......... ad. val. 15% |
|
| 48.07 |
Coated (including surface-colored decorated or printed) or impregnated paper and paper board in rolls or sheets, not being printed matter falling within Chapter 49:
A. Carbon paper .......... ad. val. 30%
B. Stencil sheets ......... ad. val. 50%
C. Other .......... ad. val. 25% |
|
| 48.14 |
Writing blocks, envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards, correspondence cards; boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums of paper or paperboard containing an assortment of paper stationary ad. val. 65% |
|
| 48.15 |
Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape:
A. Paper:
1. * * * * * *
2. * * * * * *
3. Bond paper and onion skin paper .......... ad. val. 65%
4. Toilet paper, in rolls, packets or otherwise put up .......... ad. val. 65%
5. Other .......... ad. val. 45% |
|
| 48.17 |
Box files and storage boxes, of paper or paper-board, of a kind commonly used in offices, shops and the like ........... ad. val. 55% |
|
| 48.18 |
Registers, exercise books, note books, memorandum blocks, order books, receipt books, diaries, blotting pads, binders (loose-leaf or other), file covers and other stationary of paper or paperboard; sample and other albums and books covers, of paper or paperboard ........... ad. val. 65% |
|
| 48.21 |
Other articles of paper pulp, paper, paperboard or cellulose wadding:
A. Serviettes .......... ad. val. 65%
B. Other ........... ad. val. 50% |
|
| 51.01 |
Yarn of continuous synthetic or artificial textiles, not put up for retail sale:
A. Filament tow .......... ad. val. 15%
B. Other .......... ad. val. 30% |
|
| 73.10 |
Bars and rods (including wire rod) of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged or cold-finished (including precision-made); hollow mining drill steel:
A. * * * * * *
B. * * * * * *
C. Wire rods (excluding wire rods for manufacture into welding electrode when imported directly by welding rod manufacturers.) .......... ad. val. 40%
D. Other .......... ad. val. 15% |
|
| 73.14 |
Iron or steel wire, single strand, whether or not coated, but not insulated:
A. Not coated .......... ad. val. 75% or g.w., 100 kgs. |
P16.00 |
|
B. Other:
1. Nailwire ........... ad. val. 75% or g.w., 100 kgs.
2. Other ........... ad. val. 15% |
P16.00 |
| 73.31 |
Nails, tacks, staples, hook nails, cramps, studs, spikes and drawing pins, of iron or steel (other than copper-headed nails):
A. * * * * * *
B. * * * * * *
C. Railroad track spikes .......... ad. val. 75%
D. Other .......... ad. val. 20% |
|
| 73.34 |
Pins (excluding hatpins and other ornamental pins and drawing pins), hairpins, hairclips and curling grips, of iron or steel:
A. Bobby hairpins .......... ad. val. 75%
B. Other .......... ad. val. 15% |
|
| 82.14 |
Spoons, forks, fish knives, butter knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware:
A. * * * * * *
B. Spoons, forks, teaspoons and knives, of stainless steel .......... gross or ad. val. 50%
C. Other ........... ad. val. 20% |
P10.00 |
| 83.02 |
Base metal fittings and mountings of a kind suitable for furniture, doors, windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, and the like (including automatic door closers); base metal hatracks, hat pegs, brackets and the like:
A. * * * * * *
B. Butt hinges up to size 4 inch by 4 inch ........... ad. val. 75%
C. Other .......... ad. val. 15% |
|
| 84.15 |
Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electric and other):
A. Household refrigerators, freezers and beverage coolers:
1. * * * * *
2. Absorption type ........... ad. val. 80% |
|
| 84.20 |
Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of five centigrams or better), including weight-operated counting and checking machines; weights therefore: |
|
|
A. Platform scale (excluding dial automatic type and no loose weight steel yard type):
1. 500 and 1,000 kilogram capacity .......... ad val. 30%
2. Parts and accessories:
a. Graduated beam assembly, steel knife edges, steel knife edge receivers and standard weights .......... ad. val. 15%
b. Other .......... ad. val. 30% |
|
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B. Counter scale (excluding dial automatic type and no loose weight steel yard type):
1. 10 kilogram capacity .......... ad. val. 30%
2. Parts and accessories
a. Graduated beam assembly, steel knife edges, steel knife edge receivers and standard weights ad. val. 15%
b. Other ad. val. 30% |
|
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C. Other ........... ad. val. 15% |
|
| 84.23 |
Earth excavating, leveling, boring and extracting machinery, stationary or mobile (e.g., mechanical shovels, coal cutters, excavators, scrapers, levelers, bulldozers); pile drivers; snow plows, not self-propelled (including snow plow attachments):
A. Rooter, ripper and bucket teeth for earth excavating leveling and extracting machinery .......... ad. val. 25%
B. Other .......... ad. val. 10% |
|
| 85.01 |
Electric generators, motors, transformers, converters (rotary or static), rectifiers, inductors, reactors, frequency transformers and similar machinery and apparatus, other than those falling within heading No. 85.08, 85.09 or 85.21:
A. * * * * * *
B. AC Induction squirrel cage type motors open, semi-protected, protected or drip-proof, horizontal shaft with fractional and integral ratings up to 5 HP; splash proof or totally enclosed fan-cooled, 1200 to 3600 RPM with fractional and integral ratings from 1/6 HP to 30 HP), 110 to 440 volts, 2 to 6 poles, single-phase or 3-phase, 60 cycle, except motors having frames normally integral with other types of machinery; radio and television coils .......... ad. val. 20%
C. Other .......... ad. val. 10% |
|
| 85.06 |
A. Electric floor polishers, up to 16 inches brush diameter, 110 or 220 volts ......... ad. val. 40%
B. Other ........ ad. val. 25% |
|
| 87.10 |
Cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorized ......... ad. val 80% |
|
| 90.29 |
Parts and accessories of instruments or apparatus falling within headings numbered 90.24, 90.26, 90.27 and 90.28:
A. Parts for water meters, sizes 5/8" x ½", ¾" and 1" ad. val. 40%
B. Other .......... ad. val. 10% |
|
| 97.01. |
Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (e.g., toy bicycles, tricycles, scooters and pedal motor cars); dolls' prams and dolls' push chairs:
A. Children's tricycles .......... ad. val. 80%
B. Other .......... ad. val. 60% |
|
| 98.15 |
Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof, other than glass inners:
A. Complete vessels with or without cups and stoppers, of a capacity of 5 pints or less .......... dozen or ad. val. 40%
|
P9.00 |
|
B. Other .......... ad. val. 20% |
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Section. 2 After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.
Section. 3 Any unwarranted increase in the prices of local products benefited by these tariff changes may be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.
Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of January, 1963, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.1âшphi1
(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) SALVADOR L. MARIÑO
Executive Secretary
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