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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 166

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 166 - MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY OF CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED), IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE ASEAN INTEGRATION SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (AISP) PACKAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

WHEREAS, at the 4th ASEAN Informal Summit held in Singapore in November 2000, the ASEAN Heads of Government/State agreed on the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) with objectives to narrow the development gap between the older and newer members of ASEAN, and to enhance the new members integration with the rest of the ASEAN;

WHEREAS, to implement the decision of the ASEAN Heads of Government/State, the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM), in its meeting in Siemreap, Cambodia on 3-5 May 2001, decided to implement the ASEAN GSP Scheme (now AISP) on a bilateral basis;

WHEREAS, the preference is a unilateral offer made by preference-giving countries (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) to the preference receiving countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam);

WHEREAS, Section 402 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, empowers the President, upon the recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority, to increase, reduce or remove existing protective rates of import duty, as well as to modify the form of duty.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, 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” (Articles Granted Concession under the ASEAN Integration System of Preferences (AISP) Package of the Philippines) hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be subject to the AISP rate of duty indicated in Column 4 of “Annex A” when imported from Myanmar or Vietnam (preference receiving countries) indicated in Column 5 of “Annex A”.

SECTION 2.    In the event that any subsequent changes are made in the basic (MFN) Philippine rate of duty on any of the articles listed in “Annex A” to a rate lower than the rate prescribed in Column 4 of “Annex A”, such article shall automatically be accorded the corresponding reduced duty.

SECTION 3.    From the date of effectivity of this Order, all articles listed in “Annex A” entered into or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be imposed the rates of duty therein prescribed subject to qualification under the Rules of Origin of forty percent (40%) single country content (Myanmar or Vietnam) as provided for in the Agreement on the CEPT Scheme for the AFTA signed on 28 January 1992.

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

SECTION 5.    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 10th day of January, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Three.

“Annex A”
ARTICLES GRANTED CONCESSION UNDER THE ASEAN INTEGRATION SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (AISP) PACKAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

    Applicable
Hdg. No.      H.S. Code        Description    AISP   Preference
    Rate (%)    Receiving
    2003    Country
      (1)   (2)    (3)      (4)    (5)

04.10    0410.00 00    Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere    Free    Myanmar
       specified or included.
05.02    Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair, badger hair

        and other brush making hair, waste of such
        bristles or hair.
0502.10 00    - Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair and waste    Free    Myanmar
        thereof

05.05 Skins and other parts of birds with their feathers

        or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether
        or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further
        worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for
        preservation; powder and waste of feathers or
        parts of feathers.
   0505.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar

05.06 Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply

        prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid
        or degelatinised; powder and waste of these
        products.
      0505.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar

05.07 Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone

        hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and
        beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to
        shape; powder and waste of these products.
   0507.10 00    - Ivory; ivory powder and waste    Free    Myanmar

05.08 0508.00 00 Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply Free Myanmar

        prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of
        molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and
        cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut
        to shape, powder and waste thereof.

09.09 Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin

or caraway; juniper berries.
0909.10 00 - Seeds of anise or badian Free Myanmar

12.07 Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or

        not broken.
      - Other:
        1207.99 00    - - Other    Free    Myanmar

12.08 Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits,

other than those of mustard.
1208.10 00 - Of soya beans Free Myanmar

12.09 Seeds, fruits and spores, of a kind used for

sowing.
- Beet seed:
1209.19 00 - - Other Free Myanmar

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.
   1211.10 00    - Liquorice roots    Free    Myanmar
1211.20 00    - Ginseng roots    Free    Myanmar
      1211.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar

12.12 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar

        beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or
        dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and
        kernels and other vegetable products (including
        unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium
        intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for
        human consumption, not elsewhere specified or
        included.
       1212.10 00    - Locust beans, including locust been seeds    Free    Myanmar

14.01 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).

   1401.10 00    - x x x
   1401.20 00    - Rattans    Free    Myanmar
   1401.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar

14.03 Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in

        brooms or in brushes (for example, broomcorn,
        piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in
        hanks or bundles.
   1403.10 00    - Broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare var. technicum)    Free    Myanmar
       1403.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar

14.04 Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or

        included.
   1404.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar
        Free    Myanmar

15.21 Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), bees

        wax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether
        or not refined or coloured.
   1521.10 00    - Vegetable waxes    Free    Myanmar

25.01 2501.00 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.

25.05 Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not

        coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of
        Chapter 26.
      2505.10 00    - Silica sands and quartz sands    Free    CLMV

25.09 2509.00 00 Chalk. Free Myanmar
27.01 Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels

        manufactured from coal.
    - Coal, whether or not pulverised, but not
        agglomerated:
        2701.11 00    - - Anthracite    Free    Vietnam

28.04 Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals.

- Rare gases:
2804.29 00 - - Other Free Myanmar

28.12 Halides and halide oxides of non-metals.

2812.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

28.28 Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite;

        chlorites; hypobromites.
   2828.10 00    - Commercial calcium hypochlorite and other calcium    Free    Myanmar
        hypochlorites

28.33 Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates

        (persulphates).
      - Sodium sulphates:
        2833.19 00    - - Other    Free    Myanmar

30.03 Medicaments (excluding goods of heading

        No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of two or
        more constituents which have been mixed
        together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not
        put up in measured doses or in forms or packings
        for retail sale.
    - Containing hormones or other products of heading
        No. 29.37 but not containing antibiotics:
3003.31 00    - - Containing insulin    Free    Myanmar
3003.39 00    - - Other    Free    Myanmar
3003.40 00    - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not    Free    Myanmar
        containing hormones or other products of heading
        No. 29.37 or antibiotics

30.04 Medicaments (excluding good of heading

        No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or
        unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic
        uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or
        packings for retail sale.
    - Containing hormones or other products of heading
        No. 29.37 but not containing antibiotics:
   3004.31 00    - - Containing insulin    Free    Myanmar
   3004.39 00    - - Other    Free    Myanmar
   3004.40 00    - Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not    Free    Myanmar
        containing hormones, other products of heading
        No. 29.37 or antibiotics
   3004.90    - Other:
        3004.90 10    - - - Specialized medicines for cancer, AIDS and other    Free    Myanmar
        dread diseases
        3004.90 20    - - - Closed sterile water system for inhalation,    Free    Myanmar
        pharmaceutical grade (USP, NF or BP)

30.05 Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for

        example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices),
        impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical
        substances or put up in forms or packings for
        retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or
        veterinary purposes.
      3005.10    - Adhesive dressings and other articles having an
        adhesive layer:
        3005.10 10    - - - Specialized transdermal therapeutic system (TTS)    Free    Myanmar
        patches for cancer and heart diseases

32.01 Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and

their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives.
3201.90 00 - Other Free Myanmar

32.08 Paints and varnishes (including enamels and

        lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or
        chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed
        or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions
        as defined in Note 4 to this Chapter.
3208.20    - Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers:
        3208.20 10    - - - Cavity lining and varnish for dental use    Free    Myanmar

33.06 Preparations for oral or dental hygiene, including

        denture fixative pastes and powders; yarn used to
        clean between the teeth (dental floss), in
        individual retail packages.
   3306.10    - Dentifrices:
        3306.10 10    - - - Prophylactic paste and powder for dental use    Free    Myanmar

34.01 Soap; organic surface-active products and

        preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars,
        cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not
        containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and
        nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with
        soap or detergent.
      3401.20    - Soap in other forms:
        3401.20 10    - - - Soap for flotation deinking of recycled paper    Free    Myanmar

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 00    - Dextrins and other modified starches:
        ex 3505.10 00    Dextrins    3    All
ex 3505.10 00    Other modified starches    Free    Vietnam

38.06 Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof;

rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums.
3806.10 00 Rosin and resin acids Free Vietnam

41.01 Raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals

        (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise
        preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or
        further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split.
      4101.10 00    - Whole hides and skins of bovine animals, of a    Free    Myanmar
        weight per skin not exceeding 8 kg when simply
        dried, 10 kg when dry-salted, or 14 kg when fresh,
        wet-salted or otherwise preserved

41.03 Other raw hides and skins (fresh, or salted, dried,

        limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not
        tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared),
        whether or not dehaired or split, other than those
        excluded by Note 1(b) or 1(c) to this Chapter.
   4103.10 00    - Of goats or kids    Free    Myanmar
       4103.90 00    - Other    Free    Myanmar

41.04 Leather of bovine or equine animals, without hair

        on, other than leather of healing No. 41.08 or
        41.09.
    - Other bovine leather and equine leather, tanned or
        retanned but not further prepared, whether or not
        split:
        4104.21 00    - - Bovine leather, vegetable pre-tanned    Free    Myanmar
      4104.22    - - Bovine leather, otherwise pre-tanned:
        4104.22 10    - - - Chrome-wet-blue hides and skins    Free    Myanmar
      4104.29    - - Other.
        4104.29 10    - - - Chrome-wet-blue hides and skins and crust    Free    Myanmar
        vegetable (semi-tanned) hides and skins

41.05 Sheep or lamb skin leather, without wool on, other

        than leather of heading No. 41.08 or 41.09.
      - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared,
        whether or not split:
        4105.11 00    - - Vegetable pre-tanned    Free    Myanmar

41.06 Goat or kid skin leather, without hair on, other

        than leather of heading No. 41.08 or 41.09.
      - Tanned or retanned but not further prepared,
        whether or not split:
        4106.11 00    - - Vegetable pre-tanned    Free    Myanmar

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:
        4401.21 00    - - Coniferous    Free    Myanmar

44.03 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of

bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
4403.20 00 - Other, coniferous Free Myanmar

47.06 Pulps of fibres derived from recovered (waste and

        scrap) paper or paperboard or of other fibrous
        cellulosic material.
      4706.20 00    - Pulps of fibres derived from recovered (waste and    Free    Myanmar
        scrap) paper or paperboard
   - Other:
        4706.92 00    - - Chemical    Free    Myanmar

47.07 Recovered (waste and scrap) paper or

        paperboard.
   4707.10 00    - Of unbleached kraft paper or paperboard or of    Free    Myanmar
        corrugated paper or paperboard

48.02 Uncoated paper and paperboard, of a kind used

        for writing, printing or other graphic purposes,
        and punch card stock and punch tape paper, in
        rolls or sheets, other than paper of heading No.
        48.01 or 48.03; hand-made paper and paperboard.
   - Other paper and paperboard, not containing fibres
        obtained by a mechanical process or of which not
        more than 10% by weight of the total fibre content
        consists of such fibres:
        4802.52    - - Weighing 40 g/m2 or more but not more than
        150 g/m2:
        4802.52 10    - - -Fancy paper and paperboard including with    Free    Myanmar
        watermarks, granatized felt finish, fibers or blend
        of specks and vellum antique finish weighing
        40 g/m2 or more but not more than 150 g/m2

58.06 Narrow woven fabrics, other than goods of

        heading No. 58.07; narrow fabrics consisting of
        warp without weft assembled by means of an
        adhesive (bolducs).
   - Other woven fabrics:
        5806.31 10    - - -Narrow woven fabrics of the kind being processed    Free    Myanmar
        into inked ribbon for typewriters and similar
        machines; backing for electrical insulating tape, of
        cotton
   5806.31 20    - - - Textile sequencial markers used in the    Free    Myanmar
        manufacture of electrical wires

65.06 Other headgear, whether or not lined or trimmed.

- Other.
6506.92 00 - - Of furskin Free Myanmar

71.03 Precious stones (other than diamonds) and

        semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded
        but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded
        precious stones (other than diamonds) and
        semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for
        convenience of transport.
   7103.10 00    - Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped    Free    Myanmar
   - Otherwise worked:
        7103.91 00    - - Rubies, sapphires and emeralds    Free    Myanmar

73.06 Other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (for

        example, open seam or welded, riveted or
        similarly closed), of iron or steel.
   7306.90    - Other:
        7306.90 10    - - - Bundy-weld pipes and tubes    Free    Vietnam

74.09 Copper plates, sheets and strip, of a thickness

        exceeding 0.15 mm.
     - Of copper-tin base alloys (bronze):
        7409.39 00    - - Other    Free    Myanmar

74.12 Copper tube or pipe fittings (for example,

couplings, elbows, sleeves).
7412.10 00 - Of refined copper Free Myanmar

78.01 Unwrought lead.

7801.10 00 - Refined lead Free Myanmar

85.01 Electric motors and generators (excluding

        generating sets).
   - AC generators (alternators):
        8501.61 00    - - Of an output not exceeding 75 kVA    Free    Myanmar

85.04 Electrical transformers, static converters (for

        example, rectifiers) and inductors.
    - Other transformers:
        8404.31    - - Having a power handling capacity not exceeding
        1 kVA:
        8504.31 10    - - - Instrument potential transformers    Free    Myanmar
        8504.31 30    - - - Flyback transformers    Free    Myanmar
      8504.31 40    - - - Intermediate frequency transformers    Free    Myanmar

85.11 Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind

        used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition
        internal combustion engines (for example, ignition
        magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils,
        sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors);
        generators (for example, dynamos, alternators)
        and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with
        such engines.
8511.30    - Distributors; ignition coils:
        8511.30 10    - - - For aircraft use    Free    Myanmar
        8511.30 20    - - - Unassembled distributors and unassembled    Free    Myanmar
        ignition coils

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.
   8536.50    - Other switches:
        8536.50 10    - - - 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
   8536.90    - Other apparatus:
        8536.90 10    - - - Connection and contact elements for wires and    Free    Myanmar
        cables; wafer probers

85.40 Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves

        and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas-filled
        valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying
        valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television
        camera tubes).
    - Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video
        monitor cathode-ray tubes:
        8540.11 00    - - Colour    Free    Myanmar

85.41 Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor

        devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices,
        including photovoltaic cells whether or not
        assembled in modules or made up into panels;
        light emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric
        crystals.
        8541.90 00    - Parts    Free    Myanmar

90.18 Instruments and appliances used in medical,

        surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including
        scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical
        apparatus and sight-testing instruments.
    - Electro-diagnostic apparatus (including apparatus for
        functional exploratory examination or for checking
        physiological parameters):
        9018.19 00    - - Other    Free    Myanmar

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