Temporary Waiver of the Reciprocal Tariff Treatment on Certain Articles to Implement the Agreement Between the Philippines and Korea

August 5, 2011 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 52 TEMPORARY WAIVER OF THE RECIPROCAL TARIFF TREATMENT ON CERTAIN ARTICLES TO IMPLEMENT THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA ON THE COMPENSATORY MEASURE IN RELATION TO THE DELAYED IMPLEMENTATION OF PHILIPPINE TARIFF CONCESSIONS UNDER THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN GOODS UNDER THE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC COOPERATION AMONG THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA WHEREAS, Paragraph 5 (b) (ii) of Annex 1 of the Agreement on Trade in Goods under the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Among the Governments of the Member Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Republic of Korea (AKFTA TIG Agreement) stipulates that ASEAN 6, which includes the Philippines, shall eliminate tariffs on at least 90% of the tariff lines placed in the Normal Track not later than 01 January 2009. Executive Order (EO) No. 812 (s. 2009), which implements the said provision, took effect six (6) months behind schedule or on 07 July 2009; DETACa WHEREAS, EO No. 638 (s. 2007) grants reciprocal tariff treatment to products in the Sensitive Track of Parties to the AKFTA TIG Agreement; WHEREAS, during its meeting on 17 May 2011, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board approved the temporary waiver of reciprocal tariff treatment on certain articles as compensatory measure to the Republic of Korea; WHEREAS, Note Verbale number 11 1953 dated 08 July 2011 issued by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and Note Verbale number KPH 2011-093-P dated 14 July 2011 issued by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea shall be regarded as constituting an agreement between the two Governments to implement the compensation package; and, WHEREAS, Section 402 of Presidential Decree No. 1464 or the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, authorizes the President, upon the recommendation of NEDA, to modify import duties (including any necessary change in classification) and other import restrictions as are required or appropriate to carry out and promote foreign trade with other countries. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order: SECTION 1. Rates of Import Duty . The articles specifically listed in the Annex hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be imposed the AKFTA rate in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article for a period of twelve (12) months. The AKFTA rates so indicated shall be accorded to imports coming from parties to the AKFTA TIG agreement subject to qualification under the Rules of Origin as provided for in the said Agreement. The nomenclature and the rates of import duty on tariff headings not enumerated and those listed but replaced by the symbol "XXX" shall remain in force and effect. SECTION 2. Levy on Articles . Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, all articles listed in the Annex which are entered and withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the AKFTA rates of duty for twelve (12) months, thereafter, the reciprocal tariff treatment provided under EO No. 638 shall apply. SECTION 3. Separability Clause . If any provision of this Executive Order is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting. SECTION 4. Repealing Clause . All orders, rules, regulations, and issuances, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive Order, are hereby repealed, amended, or modified accordingly. SAHEIc SECTION 5. Effectivity . This Executive Order shall take effect immediately upon publication in a newspaper of general circulation. DONE in the City of Manila, this 5th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eleven. ANNEX HS AKFTA Hdg. AHTN Code DESCRIPTION Rate of No. Duty % 04.05 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads. 0405.10.00 - XXX 0405.20.00 - XXX 0405.90 - Other: 0405.90.10 - - Anhydrous butterfat 0 0405.90.20 to 0405.90.90 - - XXX 07.12 Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared. 0712.20.00 to 0712.39.90 - - - XXX 0712.90 - Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables: 0712.90.10 - - XXX 0712.90.90 - - Other 0 11.08 Starches; inulin. - Starches: 1108.11.00 - - XXX 1108.12.00 - - XXX 1108.13.00 - - Potato starch 0 1108.14.00 - - XXX 1108.19 - - Other starches: 1108.19.10 - - - XXX 1108.19.90 - - - Other 0 1108.20.00 - XXX 12.01 Soya beans, whether or not broken. 1201.00.10 - XXX 1201.00.90 - Other 0 12.11 Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered. 1211.20 - Ginseng roots: 1211.20.10 - - XXX 1211.20.90 - - Other 0 1211.30 to 1211.90.99 - - - XXX 13.02 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products. - Vegetable saps and extracts: 1302.11 to 1302.13.00 - - XXX 1302.19 - - Other: 1302.19.20 to 1302.19.50 - - - X X X 1302.19.90 - - - Other 0 1302.20.00 to 1302.39.90 - - - XXX 15.15 Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified. - XXX 1515.11.00 to 1515.30.90 - - XXX 1515.50 - Sesame oil and its fractions: 1515.50.10 - - XXX 1515.50.20 - - XXX 1515.50.90 - - Other 0 1515.90 to 1515.90.99B - - - - XXX 17.02 Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel. - XXX 1702.11.00 to 1702.20.00 - XXX 1702.30 - Glucose and glucose syrup, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20% by weight of fructose: 1702.30.10 - - Glucose 0 1702.30.20 to 1702.60.20 - - XXX 1702.90 - Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose: 1702.90.10 to 1702.90.40 - - XXX 1702.90.90 - - Other 0 19.01 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included. 1901.10 to 1901.20.40 - - XXX 1901.90 - Other: 1901.90.10 - - XXX 1901.90.20 - - Malt extract 0 - - XXX 1901.90.31 to 1901.90.90 - - XXX 20.09 Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar other sweetening matter. AaHDSI - Orange juice: 2009.11.00 - - XXX 2009.12.00 - - XXX 2009.19.00 - - Other 0 - XXX 2009.21.00 to 2009.90.00 - XXX 21.06 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included. 2106.10.00 - XXX 2106.90 - Other: 2106.90.10 to 2106.90.80 - - - XXX - - Other: 2106.90.91 to 2106.90.95 - - - XXX 2106.90.99 - - - Other: 2106.90.99A - - - - XXX 2106.90.99B - - - - Flavouring preparations 0 2106.90.99C - - - - XXX 2106.90.99D - - - - XXX 23.01 Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves. 2301.10.00 - XXX 2301.20.00 - Flours, meals and pellets, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or 0 other aquatic invertebrates 23.09 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding. 2309.10 to 2309.10.90 - - XXX 2309.90 - Other: - - XXX 2309.90.11 to 2309.90.19B - - - - XXX 2309.90.20 - - Premixes, feed supplements or feed additives 0 2309.90.30 - - XXX 2309.90.90 - - XXX 29.05 Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. - Saturated monohydric alcohols: 2905.11.00 - - XXX 2905.12.00 - - Propan-1-ol (propyl alcohol) and propan-2-ol (isopropyl 0 alcohol) 2905.13.00 - - XXX 2905.14.00 - - Other butanols 0 2905.16.00 to 2905.29.00 - - XXX - Diols: 2905.31.00 - - XXX 2905.32.00 - - Propylene glycol (propane-1,2-diol) 0 2905.39.00 - - Other 0 - XXX 2905.41.00 to 2905.59.00 - - XXX 29.10 Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and epoxyethers, with a three-membered ring, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. 2910.10.00 - XXX 2910.20.00 - XXX 2910.30.00 - 1-Chloro-2,3-epoxypropane (epichlorohydrin) 0 2910.40.00 - XXX 2910.90.00 - XXX 29.15 Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. - XXX 2915.11.00 to 2915.13.00 - - XXX - Acetic acid and its salts; acetic anhydride: 2915.21.00 - - Acetic acid 0 2915.24.00 to 2915.29.00B - - - XXX - Esters of acetic acid: 2915.31.00 - - XXX 2915.32.00 - - Vinyl acetate 0 2915.33.00 - - n-Butyl acetate 0 2915.36.00 to 2915.90.90 - - XXX 29.16 Unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids, cyclic monocarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. - Unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives: 2916.11.00 - - Acrylic acid and its salts 0 2916.12.00 - - Esters of acrylic acid 0 2916.13.00 - - Methacrylic acid and its salts 0 2916.14 to 2916.39.90 - - - XXX 29.17 Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives. - XXX 2917.11.00 to 2917.20.00 - XXX - Aromatic polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives: 2917.32.00 - - Dioctyl orthophthalates 0 2917.33.00 - - XXX 2917.34.00 - - Other esters of orthophthalic acid 0 2917.35.00 to 2917.39.20 - - - XXX 2917.39.90 - - - Other 0 35.05 Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches. 3505.10 - Dextrins and other modified starches: 3505.10.10 - - XXX 3505.10.90 - - Other 0 3505.20.00 - XXX 37.07 Chemical preparations for photographic uses (other than varnishes, glues, adhesives and similar preparations); unmixed products for photographic uses, put up in measured portions or put up for retail sale in a form ready for use. 3707.10.00 - XXX 3707.90 - Other: 3707.90.10 - - XXX 3707.90.90 - - Other 0 38.23 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols. - Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining: 3823.11.00 - - Stearic acid 0 3823.12.00 to 3823.70.90 - - XXX 39.01 Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms. 3901.10 to 3901.20.00 - XXX 3901.30 - Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers: 3901.30.30 - - In the form of liquids or pastes 0 3901.30.90 - - Other 0 3901.90 - Other: 3901.90.30 - - XXX 3901.90.90 - - Other 0 39.03 Polymers of styrene, in primary forms. - XXX 3903.11.00 to 3903.30.90 3903.90 - Other: 3903.90.30 - - XXX 3903.90.90 - - Other 0 39.04 Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms. 3904.10 to 3904.22.00 - - XXX 3904.30.00 - Vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymers 0 3904.40.00 to 3904.90.90 - - XXX 39.07 Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms. 3907.10.00 - XXX 3907.20.00 - Other polyethers 0 3907.30 to 3907.99.90 - - - XXX 69.01 6901.00.00 Bricks, blocks, tiles and other ceramic goods of siliceous fossil 0 meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite or diatomite) or of similar siliceous earths. 74.08 Copper wire. - Of refined copper: 7408.11.00 - - Of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6 mm 0 7408.19.00 to 7408.29.00 - - XXX 84.08 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines). 8408.10 - Marine propulsion engines: 8408.10.40 - - Of a power not exceeding 750-kW 0 8408.10.90 - - Of a power exceeding 750 kW 0 8408.20 to 8408.90.99 - - - XXX 84.09 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading 84.07 or 84.08. 8409.10.00 - For aircraft engines - Other: 8409.91 to 8409.91.79 - - - - XXX 8409.99 - - Other: - - - XXX 8409.99.11 to 8409.99.49B - - - - - XXX - - - For vessels of Chapter 89: - - - - XXX 8409.99.51 to 8409.99.53 - - - - - XXX - - - - For marine propulsion engines of a power exceeding 22.38 kW: 8409.99.54 - - - - - Cylinder blocks; crank cases 0 8409.99.55 - - - - - Pistons 0 8409.99.56 - - - - - Other 0 - - - XXX 8409.99.61 to 8409.99.69 - - - - XXX 84.13 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators. - XXX 8413.11.00 to 8413.20.90 - - XXX 8413.30 - Fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engines: - - XXX 8413.30.11 to 8413.30.19C - - - - XXX - - Other: 8413.30.91 - - - Reciprocating or rotary type 0 8413.30.99 - - - Other 0 8413.40 to 8413.92.20 - - - XXX 84.82 Ball or roller bearings. 8482.10.00 - Ball bearings 0 8482.20.00 to 8482.99.00 - - XXX