Modifying the Rates of Import Duties and Classifications and Imposition of Alternative Rates on Certain Articles

July 21, 1989 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 364 MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTIES AND CLASSIFICATIONS AND IMPOSING ALTERNATIVE RATES ON CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978, AS AMENDED Pursuant to the powers vested in me under Section 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order: cdt SECTION 1. The rates of import duties and classifications of the following articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, are hereby modified as follows: Rate of Duty Tariff in % Ad Valorem Hdg. No. H. S. Code Description or in Pesos 14.01 Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for 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 - Rattans 1401.20 10 - - - Rattan Poles Free 1401.20 90 - - - Other 10% 1401.90 00 - x x x 27.04 2704.00 Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon: 2704.00 10 - - - Foundry coke Free 2704.00 90 - - - Other 10% 27.10 2710.00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations. 2710.00 10 - - - x x x 2710.00 20 - - - x x x 2710.00 21 - - - x x x 2710.00 29 - - - x x x 2710.00 30 - - - Gas oils, fuel oils and other heavy oils; aviation gasoline, white spirit and naphtha: 2710.00 31 - - - - Fuel Oils 10% 2710.00 32 - - - - Naphtha 10% 2710.00 39 - - - - x x x 2710.00 90 - - - - x x x 29.05 Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. - x x x 2905.11 00 - - x x x 2905.12 00 - - x x x 2905.13 00 - - x x x 2905.14 00 - - x x x 2905.15 00 - - x x x 2905.16 00 - - x x x 2905.17 00 - - x x x 2905.19 - - x x x 2905.19 10 - - - x x x 2905.19 90 - - - x x x - x x x 2905.21 00 - - x x x 2905.22 00 - - x x x 2905.29 - - x x x 2905.29 10 - - - x x x 2905.29 90 - - - x x x - Diols: 2905.31 00 - - Ethylene glycol (ethanediol) 5% 2905.32 00 - - x x x 2905.39 - - x x x 2905.39 10 - - x x x 2905.39 90 - - - x x x - x x x 2905.41 00 - - x x x 2905.42 00 - - x x x 2905.43 00 - - x x x 2905.44 00 - - x x x 2905.49 - - x x x 2905.49 10 - - - x x x 2905.49 90 - - - x x x 2905.50 - x x x 2905.50 10 - - - x x x 2905.50 90 - - - x x x 29.17 Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. - x x x 2917.11 00 - - x x x 2917.12 00 - - x x x 2917.13 00 - - x x x 2917.14 00 - - x x x 2917.19 - - x x x 2917.19 10 - - - x x x 2917.19 90 - - - x x x 2917.20 00 - x x x - x x x 2917.31 00 - - x x x 2917.32 00 - - x x x 2917.33 00 - - x x x 2917.34 00 - - x x x 2917.35 00 - - x x x 2917.36 - - Terephthalic acid and its salts: 2917.36 10 - - - Terephthalic Acid 5% 2917.36 90 - - - Other 10% 2917.37 00 - - Dimethyl terephthalate 5% 2917.39 - - x x x 2917.39 10 - - - x x x 2917.39 20 - - - x x x 2917.39 90 - - - x x x 29.33 Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only; nucleic acids and their salts. - x x x 2933.11 00 - - x x x 2933.19 00 - - x x x - x x x 2933.21 00 - - x x x 2933.29 00 - - x x x - x x x 2933.31 00 - - x x x 2933.39 00 - - x x x 2933.40 00 - x x x - x x x 2933.51 00 - - x x x 2933.59 00 - - x x x - x x x 2933.61 00 - - x x x 2933.69 00 - - x x x - Lactams: 2933.71 00 - - 6 - Hexanelactam (epsilon-capraloctam) 5% 2933.79 00 - - x x x 2933.90 00 - x x x 31.01 3101.00 00 Animal or vegetable fertilizers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilizers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products. cdtai 5% 31.02 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogeneous. 3102.10 00 - Urea, whether or not 5% in aqueous solution - Ammonium sulphate; double salts and mixtures of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate; 3102.21 00 - - Ammonium sulphate 5% 3102.29 00 - - Other 5% 3102.30 00 - x x x 3102.40 00 - Mixtures of ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilizing substances 5% 3102.50 00 - Sodium nitrate 5% 3102.60 00 - Double salts and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate 5% 3102.70 00 - Calcium cyanamide 5% 3102.80 00 - Mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammoniacal solution 5% 3102.90 00 - Other, including mixtures not specified in the foregoing subheadings 5% 31.03 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, phosphatic. 3103.10 00 - Superphosphates 5% 3103.20 00 - Basic slag 5% 3103.90 00 - Other 5% 31.04 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, potassic. 3104.10 00 - Carnallite, sylvite and other crude natural potassium salts 5% 3104.20 00 - Potassium chloride 5% 3104.30 00 - Potassium sulphate 5% 3104.90 00 - Other 5% 31.05 Mineral or chemical fertilizers containing two or three of the fertilizing elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilizers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 Kg. 3105.10 00 - Goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg. 5% 3105.20 00 - Mineral or chemical fertilizers containing the three fertilizing elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium 5% 3105.30 00 - Diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) 5% 3105.40 00 - Ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and mixtures thereof with diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) 5% - Other mineral or chemical fertilizers containing the two fertilizing elements nitrogen and phosphorus: 3105.51 00 - Containing nitrates and phosphates 5% 3105.59 00 - - Other 5% 3105.60 00 - Mineral or chemical fertilizers containing the two fertilizing elements phosphorus and potassium 5% 3105.90 00 - Other 5% 40.02 Synthetic rubber and factice derived from oils, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip; mixtures of any product of heading No. 40.01 with any product of this heading, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip. - Styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR); carboxylated styrene-butadiene rubber (XSBR): 4002.11 - - Latex 4002.11 10 - - - Styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) 5% 4002.11 90 - - - Other 20% 4002.19 - - Other 4002.19 10 - - - In primary forms: 4002.19 11 - - - - Styrene-butadiene (SBR) 5% 4002.19 19 - - - - Other 20% 4002.19 90 - - - x x x 4002.20 - Butadiene rubber (BR): 4002.20 10 - - - In primary forms 5% 4002.20 90 - - - x x x - x x x 4002.31 - - x x x 4002.31 10 - - - x x x 4002.31 90 - - - x x x 4002.39 - - x x x 4002.39 10 - - - x x x 4002.39 90 - - - x x x - x x x 4002.41 00 - - x x x 4002.49 - - x x x 4002.49 10 - - - x x x 4002.49 90 - - - x x x - x x x 4002.51 00 - - x x x 4002.59 - - x x x 4002.59 10 - - - x x x 4002.59 90 - - - x x x 4002.60 - x x x 4002.60 10 - - - x x x 4002.60 90 - - - x x x 4002.70 - x x x 4002.70 10 - - - x x x 4002.70 90 - - - x x x 4002.80 - x x x 4002.80 10 - - - x x x 4002.80 90 - - - x x x - x x x 4002.91 00 - - x x x 4002.99 - - x x x 4002.99 10 - - - x x x 4002.99 90 - - - x x x 44.03 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared. 4403.10 - Treated with paint, stains, creosote or other preservatives: 4403.10 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.10 90 - - - Other Free 4403.20 - Other, coniferous; 4403.20 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.20 90 - - - Other Free - Other, of the following tropical woods: 4403.31 - - Dark Red Meranti, Light Red Meranti and Meranti Bakau: 4403.31 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.31 90 - - - Other Free 4403.32 - - White Lauan, White Meranti, White Seraya, Yellow Meranti and Alan: 4403.32 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.32 90 - - - Other Free 4403.33 - - Keruing, Ramin, Kapur, Teak, Jongkong, Merbau, Jelutong and Kempas; 4403.33 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.33 90 - - - Other Free 4403.34 - - Okoume, Obeche, Sapelli, Sipo, Acajou d'Afrique, Makore and Iroko: 4403.34 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.34 90 - - - Other Free 4403.35 - - Tiama, Mansonia, Ilomba, Dibetou, Limba and Azobe: 4403.35 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.35 90 - - - Other Free - Other: 4403.91 - - - Of oak: 4403.91 10 - - - Roughly squared or half- squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.91 90 - - - Other Free 4403.92 - - Of beech: 4403.92 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.92 90 - - - Other Free 4403.99 - - Other: 4403.99 10 - - - Roughly squared or half-squared but not further manufactured 10% 4403.99 90 - - - Other Free 48.01 4801.00 00 Newsprint, in rolls or sheets. 30% or kg. n.w. P4.00 54.02 Synthetic filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 decitex 5402.10 00 - High tenacity yarn of nylon or other polyamides 30% 5402.20 00 - x x x - x x x 5402.31 00 - - x x x 5402.32 00 - - x x x 5402.33 00 - - x x x 5402.39 00 - - x x x - Other yarn, single, untwisted or with a twist not exceeding 50 turns per metre: 5402.41 00 - - Of nylon or other polyamides 30% 5402.42 00 - - x x x 5402.43 00 - - x x x 5402.49 00 - - x x x - x x x 5402.51 00 - - x x x 5402.52 00 - - x x x 5402.59 00 - - x x x - x x x 5402.61 00 - - x x x 5402.62 00 - - x x x 5402.69 00 - - x x x 55.02 5502.00 00 Artificial filament tow. 10% or kg. n.w. P3.20 55.04 Artificial staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning. 5504.10 00 - Of viscose 10% or kg. n.w. P3.20 5504.90 00 - Other 10% or kg. n.w. P3.20 59.11 Textile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in Note 7 to this Chapter. 5911.10 00 - x x x 5911.20 00 - x x x - x x x 5911.31 - - x x x 5911.31 10 - - - x x x 5911.31 90 - - - x x x 5911.32 - - x x x 5911.32 10 - - - x x x 5911.32 90 - - - x x x 5911.40 00 - - - x x x 5911.90 - Other: 5911.90 10 - - - Textile packings and gaskets 30% 5911.90 90 - - - Other 20% 72.01 Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms. 7201.10 00 - Non-alloy pig iron containing by weight 0.5% or less of phosphorus Free 7201.20 00 - Non-alloy pig iron containing by weight more than 0.5% of phosphorus Free 7201.30 00 - Alloy pig iron Free 7201.40 00 - x x x 72.04 Ferrous waste and scrap remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel. 7204.10 00 - Waste and scrap of cast iron 5% - Waste and scrap of alloy steel; 7204.21 00 - - Of stainless steel 5% 7204.29 00 - - Other 5% 7204.30 00 - Waste and scrap of tinned iron or steel 5% - Other waste and scrap: 7204.41 00 - - Turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, sawdust, filings, trimmings and stampings, whether or not in bundles 5% 7204.49 00 - - Other 5% 7204.50 00 - Remelting scrap ingots 5% 72.07 Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel. - Containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon: 7207.11 00 - - x x x 7207.12 - - Other, of rectangular (other than square) cross-section: 7207.12 10 - - - Slabs 5% 7207.12 90 - - - Other 10% 7207.19 00 - - x x x 7207.20 - Containing by weight 0.25% or more of carbon 7207.20 10 - - - Slabs 5% 7207.20 90 - - - Other 10% 73.12 Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated. 7312.10 - Stranded wire, ropes, and cables: 7312.10 10 - - - x x x 7312.10 20 - - - Plaited or coated with brass, of a nominal diameter not exceeding 3 mm. 20% 7312.10 90 - - - x x x 7312.90 00 - x x x 84.08 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines). 8408.10 10 00 - x x x 8408.20 - Engines of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter 87: 8408.20 10 - - - For motor vehicles of subheadings nos. 8704.10 10 and 8704.22 90 with g.v.w. of 6 tones to 18 tonnes 10% 8408.20 90 - - - Other 20% 8408.90 00 - x x x 84.71 Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included. 8471.10 00 - Analogue or hybrid automatic data processing machines 10% 8471.20 00 - Digital automatic data processing machines, containing in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined 10% - Other: 8471.91 00 - - Digital processing units, whether or not presented with the rest of a system, which may contain in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units 10% 8471.92 00 - - x x x 8471.93 00 - Storage units, whether or not presented with the rest of a system 10% 8471.99 - - Other: 8471.99 10 - - - x x x 8471.99 90 - - - Other 10% 84.73 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings Nos. 84.69 to 84.72. 8473.10 00 - x x x - x x x 8473.21 00 - - x x x 8473.29 00 - - x x x 8473.30 00 - - Parts and accessories of the machines of heading No. 84.71 10% 8473.40 00 - - x x x 85.23 Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, other than products of Chapter 37. - Magnetic tapes: 8523.11 00 - - x x x 8523.12 00 - - x x x 8523.13 - - Of a width exceeding 6.5 mm: 8523.13 10 - - - Magnetic computer tapes with widths of 1/2-inch (12.7 mm) or wider 10% 8523.13 90 - - - x x x 8523.20 - Magnetic discs: 8523.20 10 - - - Computer magnetics discs and diskettes 10% 8523.20 90 - - - x x x 8523.90 00 - x x x 85.24 Records, tapes and other recorded media for sound or other similarly recorded phenomena, including matrices and masters for the production of records, but excluding products of Chapter 37. 8524.10 00 - x x x - Magnetic tapes: 8524.21 00 - - x x x 8524.22 00 - - x x x 8524.23 - - Of a width exceeding 6.5 mm: 8524.23 10 - - - Recorded computer magnetic tapes with widths of 1/2-inch (12.7 mm) or wider cdt 10% 8524.23 90 - - - x x x 8524.90 - Other: 8524.90 10 - - - Recorded computer magnetic disks and diskettes 10% 8524.90 90 - - - x x x 87.06 8706.00 Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings Nos. 87.01 to 87.05: 8706.00 10 - - - For motor vehicles of subheadings Nos. 8702.10 10 and 8704.22 90 with g.v.w. of 6 tonnes to 18 tones 10% 8706.00 90 - - - Other 30% 89.02 8902.00 Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving fishery products. 8902.00 10 - - - Fishing vessels 40 GT and above Free 8902.00 90 - - - Other 10% 89.03 Yachts and other vessels for pleasure or sports; rowing boats and canoes. 8903.10 00 - Inflatable 50% - Other: 8903.91 00 - - Sailboats, with or without auxiliary motor 50% 8903.92 00 - - Motorboats, other than outboard motorboats 50% 8903.99 00 - - Other 50% 89.04 8904.00 00 Tugs and pusher craft. Free 89.05 Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function; floating docks; floating or submersible drilling or production platforms. 8905.10 00 - Dredgers Free 8905.20 00 - Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms Free 8905.90 00 - Other Free 89.06 Other vessels, including warships and lifeboats other than rowing boats. 8906.00 10 - - - Warships Free 8906.00 90 - - - Other 10% 89.07 Other floating structures (for example, rafts, tanks, cofferdams, landing stages, buoys and beacons). 8907.10 00 - Inflatable rafts 10% 8907.90 00 - Other 10% 89.08 8908.00 00 Vessels and other floating structures for breaking up. Free 90.28 Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor. 9028.10 00 - x x x 9028.20 - x x x 9028.20 10 - - - x x x 9028.20 90 - - - x x x 9028.30 - Electricity meters: 9028.30 10 - - - Kilowatt-hour meters 30% Upon effectivity 20% 1 Jan. 1992 9028.30 90 - - - Other 20% 9028.90 - x x x 9028.90 10 - - - x x x 9028.90 90 - - - x x x SECTION 2. Specific rates of duty as alternative rates to the existing ad valorem rates shall be imposed on the articles listed in Annex "A" hereof. The applicable rate shall either be the specific or ad valorem rate whichever is higher. SECTION 3. All orders, issuances, and rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified accordingly. asia dc SECTION 4. After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Executive Order, all the abovementioned articles in Section 1 and the articles listed in Annex "A" hereof which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouses, in the Philippines, for consumption, shall be subject to the rates of duty herein prescribed. DONE in the City of Manila, this 21st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Nine. Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 85 No. 34, 1 Supp., on August 21, 1989.