Modifying the Rates of Import Duty on Certain Imported Articles Under R.A. No. 1937

January 22, 1974 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 424 MODIFYING THE RATESOF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO.1937, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFFAND CUSTOMSCODE OF THEPHILIPPINES, AS AMENDED Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Republic Act No. 1937, as amended, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order: cdt SECTION 1.The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under Section 104 of Republic Act No. 1937 shall pay the following rates of import duty: Tariff Heading No. Description Articles Rate of Duty 29.23 Single or Complex oxygen function amino-compounds: A. Articles not included in sub-heading B hereof ad val. 10% B. Glumatic acid and monosodium glutamate ad val. 50% 40.11 Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable tyre threads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for wheels of all kinds: A. For aircraft, tractors and earth moving equipment ad val. 30% B. Other ad val. 50% 41.02 Bovine cattle leather (including buffalo leather) and equine leather except leather falling within heading No. 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08: A. Chrome-wet-blue hides and skin ad val. 10% B. Other ad val. 50% 47.01 Pulp derived by mechanical or chemical means from any fibrous vegetable material: A. Long-fibered pulp in rolls, sheets, blocks, slabs, cakes, shapes and similar forms unfit for use except as raw material for paper or paperboard manufactures ad val. 20% B. Other ad val. 50% 51.04 Woven fabrics of man-made fiber (continuous), including woven fabrics of monofil or strip of Heading No. 51.01 or 51.02: A. Tire cord fabrics or tire woven fabrics ad val. 30% B. Other ad val. 70% 54.02 Ramie, raw or processed but not spun; ramie noils and waste(including pulled or garnetted rags) ad val. 20% 74.03 Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of copper; copper wire: A. Articles not included in sub-heading B and C hereof ad val. 10% B. Round copper rods and bars ad val. 30% C. Tinned copper wire (excluding wire of copper-based metal alloys) and bare wire; plated or coated with gold or silver ad val. 50% 84.24 Agricultural and horticultural machinery for soil preparation and cultivation (for example ploughs, harrows, cultivators, seed and fertilizer distributors); lawn and sports ground rollers: A. Articles not included in sub-heading B hereof ad val. 10% B. Animal drawn, walking tractor ad val. 30% implements 84.41 Sewing machines; furniture specially designed for sewing machine needles; A. Head parts and head accessories; sewing machine needles; pitman complete and parts thereof; head assembly of industrial sewing machines ad val. 20% B. Other ad val. 70% 84.50 Gas-operated welding, brazing, cutting and surface tempering appliances: A. Component parts of manually operated gas welding, brazing, cutting and surface tempering appliances imported under prior authorization of the Board of Investments under a Progressive manufacturing program ad val. 10% B. Other ad val. 30% 85.19 Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits, (for example, switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs, lampholders and junction boxes); resistors; fixed or variable (including potentiometers), other than heating resistors; printed circuits; switchboards (other than telephone switchboards) and control panels: A. Component parts of magnetic starters and circuit breaker imported with prior authorization of the Board of Investments under a progressive manufacturing program ad val. 10% B. Other ad val. 50% 87.02 Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or materials (including sports motor vehicles, other than those of heading No. 87.09): A. x x x B. x x x 1. x x x 2. x x x 3. x x x C. x x x D. Components, parts and/or accessories imported from one or more countries for assembly of passenger cars by participants in the progressive car manufacturing program upon prior authorization and certification of the Board of Investments ad val. 30% 87.14 Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts thereof: A. Trailers and parts and accessories thereof ad val. 30% B. Other ad val. 70% 98.05 Pencil (other than pencils of Heading No. 98.03), pencil leads, slate pencils, crayons and pastels, drawing charcoals and writing and drawing chalks; tailor's and billiards chalks: A. Pencil leads, rubber erasers and metal ferrules for pencil manufacture; tailor's chalk ad val. 30% B. Other ad val. 50% 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 price 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 22nd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four. Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 70 No. 5 page 839 on February 4, 1974.