Modified Rates of Import Duty on Certain Articles Under Sec. 104 of Tariff and Customs Code of 1978

July 22, 2005

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 450

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464), AS AMENDED

WHEREAS, it is the policy of the government to promote the development of sustainable, prosperous and internationally competitive domestic industries;

WHEREAS, certain manufacturing industries would gain greater competitiveness from a reduction in the cost of their imported inputs;

WHEREAS, Section 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978 (Presidential Decree No. 1464), as amended, empowers the President of the Republic of the Philippines to increase, reduce, or remove existing rates of import duty, as well as to modify the form of duty and the tariff nomenclature under Section 104 of said Code;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed in Annex "A" hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) rate of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article.

SECTION 2. The nomenclature and rates of import duty on tariff headings not enumerated and those listed but represented by the symbol ". . ." shall remain in force and in effect.

SECTION 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in Annex "A" which are entered and withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the MFN rates of duty therein prescribed.

SECTION 4. All presidential issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are contrary to or inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified accordingly. ITcCSA

SECTION 5. This Executive Order shall take effect thirty (30) days following its complete publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Five.

ANNEX "A"

 

Hdg.	Tariff Code	Description	MFN Rate of
			Duty (%)
47.01	4701.00.00	Mechanical wood pulp.	1
47.03		Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other
		than dissolving grades.
		- Unbleached:
	4703.11.00	- - Coniferous	1
	4703.19.00	- - Non-coniferous	1
		- Semi-bleached or bleached:
	4703.21.00	- - Coniferous	1
	4703.29.00	- - Non-coniferous	1
47.04		Chemical wood pulp, sulphite, other than
		dissolving grades.
		- Unbleached:
	4704.11.00	- - Coniferous	1
	4704.19.00	- - Non-coniferous	1
		- Semi-bleached or bleached:
	4704.21.00	- - Coniferous	1
	4704.29.00	- - Non-coniferous	1
83.09		Stoppers, caps and lids (including crown
		corks, screw caps and pouring stoppers),
		capsules for bottles, threaded bungs, bung
		covers, seals and other packing
		accessories, of base metal.
	8309.10.00	- X X X
	8309.90	- Other:
	8309.90.10	- - X X X
	to
	8309.90.50
	8309 90.90	- - Other
		A.  Aerosol can ends (tops and bottoms),
		made of tinplate	3
		B.  Other	10