EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 208 - MODIFYING THE NOMENCLATURE AND THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON VARIOUS PRODUCTS UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED)

WHEREAS, the reduction in the rates of duty of imported raw materials will provide the necessary assistance to domestic industries to be globally competitive;

WHEREAS, Sec. 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, empowers the President to increase, reduce or remove existing rates of duty, as well as to modify the tariff nomenclature.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President 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 rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article.  

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

Sec. 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in the aforesaid “Annex” which are entered in or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the rates of duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 4. All other Presidential issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby revoked or modified accordingly.

Sec. 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 8th day February, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand.

“Annex A”

HDG. H.S. DESCRIPTION RATE OF
NO. CODE DUTY (%)
2000

02.10 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal.

    - xxx
0210.11 -- xxx
0210.11 10 --- xxx
0210.11 20 --- xxx
0210.12 -- xxx
0210.12 10 --- xxx
0210.12 20 --- xxx
0210.19 -- xxx
0210.19 10 --- xxx
0210.19 20 --- xxx
0210.20 00 - xxx
0210.90 - Other, including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:
0210.90 10 --- xxx
0210.90 20 --- DRIED PORK SKIN 10
0210.90 90 --- xxx
0210.90 91 ---- xxx
0210.90 92 ---- xxx
22.02 Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No. 20.09.

2202.10 00 - xxx
2202.90 - Other
2202.90 10 --- xxx
2202.90 20 --- SOYA MILK 3
2202.90 90 --- xxx
25.01 2501.00 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water.

2501.00 10 --- Table salt
2501.00 90 --- xxx 5
28.03 2803.00 00 Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon
not elsewhere specified or included). 3
39.20 Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials.

3920.10 00 to
3920.79 00 -- xxx
- Of other plastics:
3920.91 00 -- Of polyvinyl butyral 3
3920.92 00 -- xxx
3920.93 00 -- xxx
3920.94 00 -- xxx
3920.99 00 -- xxx
40.02 Synthetic rubber and factice derived from oils, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip; mixtures of any product of heading No. 40. 01 with any product of this heading, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip.

- Styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR); carboxylated styrene-butadiene rubber (XSBR):
4002.11 00 -- xxx
4002.19 00 -- Other Free
4002.20 00 - Butadiene rubber (BR) Free
- xxx
4002.31 00 to
4002.99 00 -- xxx
59.02 Tyre cord fabric of high tenacity yarn of nylon or other polyamides, polyesters or viscose rayon.

5902.10 00 - Of nylon or other polyamides Free
5902.20 00 - xxx
5902.90 00 - Other Free
73.08 Structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading No. 94.06) and parts of structures (for example, bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frameworks, doors and windows and their frames and thresholds for doors, shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns), of iron or steel; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures, of iron or steel.

7308.10 - xxx
7308.10 10 --- xxx
7308.10 90 --- xxx
7308.20 - xxx
7308.20 10 --- xxx
7308.20 90 --- xxx
7308.30 00 - xxx
7308.40 - xxx
7308.40 10 --- xxx
7308.40 90 --- xxx
7308.90 - Other
7308.90 10 --- xxx
7308.90 20 --- CORRUGATED, CURVED OR BENT
GALVANIZED PLATE FOR ASSEMBLY
INTO UNDERGROUND CONDUITS AND
CULVERTS 3
7308.90 90 --- xxx
76.04 Aluminum bars, rods and profiles.

7604.10 00 - xxx
- Of aluminum alloys:
7604.21 -- Hollow profiles:
7604.21 10 --- PERFORATED TUBE (TUBE SHEETS)
PROFILE FOR EVAPORATOR COILS OF
MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING
MACHINES 3
7604.21 90 --- OTHER 7
7604.29 -- xxx
7604.29 10 --- xxx
7604.29 90 --- xxx
76.07 Aluminum foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.2 mm.

- xxx
7607.11 00 -- xxx
7607.19 00 -- xxx
7607.20 - Backed:
7607.20 10 --- xxx
7607.20 20 --- ALUMINUM FOIL OF ALLOY A1075
AND A3903, COATED ON BOTH SIDES,
WITH ALUMINUM ALLOY A4245 AND
A4247, RESPECTIVELY 3
7607.20 90 --- xxx
82.12 Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks in strips).

8212.10 00 - Razors 7
8212.20 - Safety razor blades, including razor blade blanks in strips:
8212.20 10 --- DOUBLE-EDGED RAZOR BLADES 20
8212.20 90 --- OTHER 7
8212.90 00 - Other parts 7
85.13 Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading No. 85.12.

8513.10 - xxx
8513.10 10 --- xxx
8513.10 90 --- xxx
8513.90 - Parts:
8513.90 10 --- xxx; REFLECTORS AND PLASTIC
SWITCH SLIDES FOR FLASHLIGHTS 3
8513.90 90 --- xxx
85.36 Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts.

8536.10 - Fuses:
8536.10 10 --- THERMAL FUSES; GLASS TYPE FUSES 3
8536.10 90 --- xxx
8536.20 - Automatic circuit breakers:
8536.20 10 --- FOR ELECTRO-THERMIC DOMESTIC
APPLIANCES OF HEADING NO. 85.16 3
8536.20 90 --- OTHER 7
8536.30 00 - xxx
- xxx
8536.41 00 -- xxx
8536.49 00 -- xxx
8536.50 - Other switches:
8536.50 10 --- xxx
8536.50 20 --- High inrush switches and commutators for stoves and ranges; microphone switches; power switches for television or radio receivers; switches for electric fans; rotary, slide, see-saw AND MAGNETIC SWITCHES FOR AIR CONDITIONING MACHINES; MINIATURE SWITCHES FOR RICE COOKERS OR OVEN
TOASTERS 3
8536.50 90 to
8536.90 90 --- xxx
85.39 Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps.

8539.10 00 - xxx
- Other filament lamps, excluding ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps.

8539.21 -- xxx
8539.21 10 --- xxx
8539.21 20 --- xxx
8539.21 90 --- xxx
8539.22 -- xxx
8539.22 10 --- xxx
8539.22 90 --- xxx
8539.29 -- Other:
8539.29 10 --- xxx; FLASHLIGHT BULBS; MINIATURE
INDICATOR BULBS, RATED UP TO 2.25
VOLTS 3
8539.29 20 to
8539.90 90 --- xxx
87.08 Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings Nos. 87.01 to 87.05.

87.08.10 to
8708.80 90 --- xxx
- Other parts and accessories:
8708.91 -- Radiators:
8708.91 10 --- xxx
8708.91 20 --- ALUMINUM RADIATOR CORE, SINGLE ROW 3
8708.91 90 --- xxx
8708.92 00 to
8708.99 90 --- xxx
94.05 Lamps and lighting fittings including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, and parts thereof not elsewhere specified or included.

9405.10 00 - xxx
9405.20 00 - xxx
9405.30 00 - xxx
9405.40 - Other electric lamps and lighting fittings:
9405.40 10 --- Specialized operating lights; searchlights; spotlights; PILOT LAMP ASSEMBLIES FOR ELECTRO-THERMIC DOMESTIC
APPLIANCES OF HEADING 85.16 3
9405.40 90 --- xxx
9405.50 - xxx
9405.50 10 --- xxx
9405.50 90 --- xxx
9405.60 00 - xxx
- xxx
9405.91     -- xxx
9405.91 10 --- xxx
9405.91 90 --- xxx
9405.92 00 -- xxx
9405.99 00 -- xxx