EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 414  - MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1937, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES, AS AMENDED

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Sec. 401 of Republic Act No. 1937, as amended, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:  

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  Description of
No. Articles    Rate of Duty

97.04 Equipment for parlour, table and  
funfair games for adults or
children (including billiard tables
and pin-tables and table-tennis
requisites):

A. TABLE TENNIS BALLS
AND RACKETS; PARTS
THEREOF  ad val. 20%
 
  B. OTHER ad val. 50%

97.06 Appliances, apparatus, accessories
and requisites for gymnastics or
athletics, or for sports and outdoor
games (other than articles falling
within heading No. 97.04   ad val. 20%

92.09 Musical Instrument strings 20% 

Sec. 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 After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 3. Any unwarranted increase in the prices of local products benefited by these tariff charges may be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.