REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1153 - AN ACT TO AMEND PARAGRAPH TWENTY-TWO OF SECTION EIGHT OF THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF ACT OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representative of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Paragraph twenty-two of section eight the Philippine Tariff Act of Nineteen hundred and nine is amended to read as follows:

"22. ( a ) Tars, pitches, and tar oils, not otherwise provided for; mineral oils, crude or refined (except gasoline, naphtha, and other similar products of distillation), including those of illumination, lubrication, fuel, or solvents, vaseline (except when compounded with other substances); axle grease of all kinds; asphaltums; carbolineum and similar compounds; gross weight, one hundred kilos, twenty-five cents.

"( b ) Gasoline, naphtha, and other similar products of distillation, gross weight, one hundred kilos, fifty cents.

" Provided, That no article classified under clause ( a ) of this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than ten per centum, ad valorem.

" Provided, further, That no article classified under clause ( b ) of this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty per centum, ad valorem.

" Provided, finally, That though imported under a name referable to clause (a) of this paragraph, paraffin, or other similar products, shall be classified under paragraph eighty-three of this Act."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 17, 1954.