EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 172
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 172 -
INCREASING THE MINIMUM TARIFF RATE FROM ZERO TO THREE PERCENT ON
ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978
(PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464), AS AMENDED
WHEREAS, there is a need to further
simplify the tariff structure by narrowing the tariff band, consistent
with the objectives of the Tariff Reform Program;
WHEREAS, the levels of protection must be made more even within and
across sectors;
WHEREAS, it is imperative that all sectors must share in the cost of
providing government services;
WHEREAS, there are number of articles that currently have a zero duty;
NOW, THEREFORE. I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by Sec. 401 of
Presidential Decree No. 1464 otherwise known as the Tariff and Customs
Code of 1978, as amended, do hereby order:
Section 1. The articles specifically listed
hereunder, shall pay three per cent (3%) rate of import duty. Provided,
that the rates of duty indicated for 1995 shall continue to be levied,
imposed and collected in the succeeding years unless otherwise
provided.
HDG HARMONIZED
RATE OF DUTY (%)
NO. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
1994 1 JULY
CODE 1995
0508.00 00 Coral and similar
materials, unworked
or simply prepared but not otherwise
worked; shell
of molluscs, crustaceans
or
echinoderms and cuttlebone,
unworked or
simply prepared but not
cut to shape,
powder and waste thereof. 3 3
05.09 0509.00 00 Natural sponges of
animal origin 3 3
05.09 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)
1401.20 00
Rattans 3 3
25.10 Natural calcium phosphates,
natural aluminum calcium phosphates
and
phosphatic chalk.
210.10 00
Unground 3 3
2510.20 00
Ground 3 3
31.10 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. 3 3
31.02 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous
3102.10 00 Urea, whether or not
in aqueous solution. 3 3
Ammonium sulphate; double salts and
mixtures of
ammonium sulphate and
ammonium
nitrate
3102.21 00
Ammonium sulphate
3 3
3102.29 00
Other 3 3
3102.40 00 Mixtures of ammonium
nitrate with
calcium carbonate or other inorganic
non-fertilizing substances 3 3
3102.50 00
Sodium nitrate 3
3
3102.60 00 Double salts and
mixtures of calcium
nitrate and ammonium nitrate 3 3
3102.70 00
Calcium cyanamide
3102.80 00 Mixture or urea and
ammonium
nitrate in aqueous or ammoniacal
solution 3 3
3102.90 00
Other, including mixtures not specified
in the foregoing subheadings
31.03 Mineral or chemical
fertilizers,
phosphatic
3103.20 00
Basic slag 3 3
3103.90 00
Other 3 3
31.04
Mineral or chemical fertilizers,
potassic
3104.10 00
Carnallite, sylvite and other
crude natural potassium salts 3 3
3104.20
00 Potassium chloride
3 3
3104.30 00 Potassium
sulphate 3 3
3104.90 00 Other
3 3
44.01 Fuel wood, in logs, in
billets, in
twigs, in faggots or in similar
forms; wood
in chips or particles;
sawdust and
wood waste and scrap,
whether or
not agglomerated in logs,
briquettes,
pellets or similar forms.
Wood in chips
or particles: 3 3
4401.21 00
Coniferous 3 3
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
90 Other 3 3
4403.20 Other, coniferous
4403.20 90 Other
3 3
4403.31 Dark Red Meranti, Light Red
Meranti and Meranti Bakau:
4403.31
90 Other 3 3
4403.32
White Lauan, White Meranti,
White Seraya, Yellow Meranti
and Alan:
4403.32
90 Other 3 3
4403.33 Keruing, Ramin, Kapur,
Teak,
Jong-kong, Merbau, Jelutong and
Kempas:
4403.33
90 Other 3
3
4403.34 Okoume, Obeche,
Sapelli, Sipo,
Acajou d’Afrique, Makore and Iroko:
4403.34 90 Other
3 3
4403.35 Tiama, Mansonia, Ilomba,
Dibetou, Limba and Azobe:
4403.35
90 Other
3 3
4403.91 Of oak:
4403.91 90
Other
3 3
4403.92 Of beech:
4403.92 90 Other
3 3
4403.99 Other
4403.99 90 Other
3 3
84.07 Spark-ignition reciprocating
or
rotary internal combustion piston
engines:
Marine
propulsion engines:
8407.29
00 Other
3 3
Reciprocating piston engines of a kind
used for the
propulsion of vehicles of
Chapter 87:
8407.31 Of a cylinder capacity not exceeding
50 cc:
8407.31 10 For power
tillers
3 3
8407.32 Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding
250 cc:
8407.32 20 For power tillers 3 3
8407.33 Of a cylinder
capacity exceeding
250 cc but not exceeding 1,000 cc:
8407.33 20 For power
tillers
3 3
8407.34 Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding
1,000 cc:
8407.34 20 For power tillers of a
cylinder
capacity not exceeding 1,100 cc: 3 3
8407.90 Other engines
8407.90 10 Rated at 25 hp and
below
3 3
84.08 Compression-ignition internal
combustion piston engines
(diesel or
semi-diesel engines)
8408.10
00 Marine propulsion engines
3 3
8408.20 Engines of a kind for the
propulsion of vehicles of
Chapter 87:
8408.20
20 For power tillers
3 3
8408.90 Other engines:
8408.90 10 Rated at 25 hp and
below
3 3
85.02
Electric generating sets and
rotary converters.
Generating
sets with compression
ignition
internal combustion piston
engines
(diesel or semi-diesel engines):
8502.11 00
Of an output not exceeding
75 kVA
3 10
8502.12 00 Of an output exceeding
75
kVA but not exceeding 375 kVA
3 10
8502.13
00 Of an output exceeding 375 kVa
3 10
8502.20 00 Generating sets with
spark-ignition
internal combustion piston
engines
3 10
8502.30
00 Other generating sets 3 10
89.04 8904.00 00
Tugs and pusher craft
3 3
89.06 8906.00
Other vessels, including warships
and lifeboats other than rowing boats
8906.00 10
Warships
3 3
89.08 8908.00 00
Vessels and other floating structures
for breaking up
3 3
Sec. 2. The new minimum three percent tariff rate
herein provided shall not apply to the Philippine Schedule of tariff
reductions under the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme
for the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) which is embodied in Executive
Order No. 145.
Sec. 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive
Order, the aforementioned articles which are entered or withdrawn from
warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates
of duty herein prescribed.
Sec. 4. Repealing Clause. — All laws, orders,
issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are
inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified
accordingly.
Sec. 5. Effectivity Clause. — This Executive Order
shall take effect immediately following its complete publication in two
(2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 22nd day of April in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Four.
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