EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 148, December 27, 1993

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 148, December 27, 1993 ]

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES OF 1978, AS AMENDED

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, shall pay the following rates of import duty.

Hdg. No

Harmonized System Code

Description

Rate of Duty (%) 1 July 1993 1994 1995

17.01

Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form

Raw sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring matter:

1701.11 00 -

- x x x

1701.12 00 -

- x x x

- Other:

1701.91 00 -

- x x x

1701.99 00 -

- Other

70 60 50

23.09

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

2309.10 00 -

- x x x

2309.90 -

Other

2309.90 10 -

- - x x x

2309.90 20 -

- Prawn Feeds

2309.90 90 -

- x x x

Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No. 30.02 or 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylatic uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or packing for retail sale.

20 20 20

3004.10 00 -

- x x x

3004.20 00 -

- x x x

- x x x

3004.31 00 -

- x x x

3004.32 00 -

- x x x

3004.39 00 -

- x x x

3004.40 00 -

- x x x

3004.50 00 -

- x x x

3004.90 -

- Other:

3004.90 10 -

- x x x

3004.90 20 -

- Closed sterile water system for inhalation pharmaceutical grade

( USP, NF or BP)

10 10 10

3004.90 90 -

- x x x

35.03

Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives: isinglass; other glues of animal origin excluding case in guess of heading No. 35.01

3503.00 10

- - Gelatin, pharmaceutical grade ( USP, NF or BP)

10 10 10

3503.00 90

- - Other

20 20 20

40.07

4007.00 00

Vulcanized rubber thread and cord

30 30 30

Fuel wood, in logs, in billets in twigs, in faggots 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.

4401.10 00

- x x x

- Wood in chips or particles

4401.21 00

- - Coniferous

Free Free Free

4401.22 00

- - Non-Coniferous

Free Free Free

4401.30 00

- - x x x

54.07

Woven fabrics of synthetic flament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading No. 54.04.

5407.10

- - x x x:

5407.10 10

- - x x x

5407.10 90

- - x x x

5407.20 00

- - x x x

5407.30 00

- - x x x

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

5407.41 00

- - Unbleached or bleached:

5407.41 10

- - NYLON MESHI FABRIC OR UNTWISTED FILAMENT YARNS FOR USE AS REINFORCING MATERIAL FOR TARPAULIN SHEETING

10 10 10

5407.41 90

- - OTHER

30 30 30

55.01

Synthetic filament tow

5501.10 00

- - x x x

5501.20 00

- - x x x

5501.30 00

- - Acrylic or modacrylic

3 3 3

5501.90 00

- - x x x

60.01

Pile fabrics, including

"long pile fabrics and

terry fabrics, limited or

crocheted.

6001.10 00

- - x x x

- - x x x

6001.21 00

- - x x x

6001.22 00

- - x x x

6001.90 00

- - x x x

- - Others:

6001.91 00

- - x x x

6001.92 00

- Of man-made fibres:

6001.92 10

- - PILE FABRICS OF 100% POLYESTER STAPLE FIBRES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT ROLLERS, MEASURING 2-1/2 TO 3 INCHES IN WIDTH

20 10 10

6001.92 90

- - OTHER

30 30 30

85.11

Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind 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.

8511.10 00

- - x x x

8511.20 00

- - x x x

8511.30 00

- - x x x

8511.40

- Starter motors and dual

purposed starter-generators:

8511.40 10

- Unassembled starter motors

3 3 3

8511.40 90

- Other

10 10 10

8511.50

- Other generators:

8511.50 10

- - Unassembled alternators

3 3 3

8511.40 90

- - Other

8511.80 00

- - x x x

8511.90 00

- x x x

SECTION 2. Upon the effectivity of this order, all the aforementioned articles entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.

SECTION 3. All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive order, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 4. This Executive Order shall take effect thirty (30) days following its complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

Adopted: 27 Dec. 1993

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS President