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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 70 November 25, 1986

FURTHER RESTRUCTURING THE IMPORT DUTY RATES AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODES, AS AMENDED

WHEREAS, the current economic recovery programs calls for the promotion of domestic production;

WHEREAS, the lifting of import restrictions on certain commodities under the import liberalization plan could adversely affect certain domestic industries;

WHEREAS restructuring the rates of import duties on certain articles could offset some adverse effects of the imports liberalization plan and even out the protection levels accorded to various domestic industries;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

Sec. 1. The rates of imports duties and the classifications of the following articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code, as amended, are hereby modified, to wit:

Rate of Duty Tariff (ad valorem) Heading No. Description of Articles Present Prescribed

02. 01 Meat and edible offal’s of the animals falling within heading No. 01.01, 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04, fresh, chilled or frozen:

100 Meat of bovine animals, with bone-in (5%) 20%

200 Meat of bovine animals, boneless (5%) 20%

300 Meat of sheep or goats (5%) 20%

400 Meat of swine (5%) 20%

500 Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies (5%) 20%

600 Offals (5%) 20%

04.01 000 Milk and cream, fresh, not (5%) 10% concentrated or sweetened

04.02 Milk and cream, preserved, concentrated or sweetened

100 Whey (5%) 10%

05.04 000 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof (5%) 10%

05.15 Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or Chapter 3, unit for human consumption:

100 Animal semen for breeding

purposes (e.g. bull semen),

silkworm eggs, and brine

shrimp eggs for hatching for

use as live-feed in prawn

fry culture (5%) 10%

200 xxx xxx xxx

900 xxx xxx xxx

07.05 Dried leguminous vegetables shelled,

whether or not skinned or split:

100 White beans, green peas

and chick peas in bulk

container exceeding

45 kgs. gross weight (5%) 10%

900 xxx xxx xxx

23.01 Flours and meals, of meat,

offals, fish, crustaceans or

molluses, unfit for human

consumption; greaves:

100 flours and meals, of

meat or offals, unfit for

human consumption;

greaves (5%) 10%

200 Flours and moal of fish,

crustaceans or molluses,

unfit for human consumption:

290 Other (5%) 10%

73.01 000 Pig, iron, cast iron and

spiegeleisen, in pigs,

blocks, lumps and similar

forms (5%) 10%

73.03 Waste and scrap metal of iron or steel.

100 Of pig or cast iron (5%) 10%

200 Of alloy steel (5%) 10%

900 Other (5%) 10%

73.04 000 Shot and angular grit, of

iron or steel, whether or
not graded; wire pellets
of iron or steel (5%) 10%

73.05 Iron or steel powders,

including sponge iron

iron or steel:

100 Iron or steel powders,

including sponge

iron powder (5%) 10%

200 Sponge iron or steel,

not in powder form (5%) 10%

73.06 Puddled bars and pilings;

ingots, blocks, lumps

and similar forms, of iron

or steel:

100 Puddle bars and pilings;

blocks lumps and similar

forms (5%) 10%

200 Ingots (5%) 10%

73.07 000 Blooms, billets, slabs

and sheets bars

(including tinplate bars),

of iron or steel;

pieces roughly shaped

by forging, of iron or

steel 10%

73.08 000 Iron or steel coils for

re-rolling 10%

73.13 Sheets and plates of iron

or steel, hot rolled or

cold-rolled:

400 Tinned 20%

Sec. 2. The following articles as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, are hereby deleted from the said section:

Tariff Rate of Duty

Heading No. Description of Articles (Ad valorem)

73.07 Blooms, billets, slabs and sheet

bars (including tinplate bars),

or iron or steel; pieces roughly

shaped by forging, of iron or steel:

100 Slabs when imported directly

by hot rolling mills for flat rolling

under prior authorization of the

Iron and Steel Authority Free

900 Other 5%

73.08 Iron or steel coils for re-rolling:

100 When imported directly by

cold reduction mills for re-rolling

under prior authorization of the

Iron and Steel Authority Free

900 Other 10%

73.13 xxx xxx xxx

400 xxx xxx xxx

410 When imported directly by food

processors upon prior authorization

of the Iron and Steel Authority Free

490 Other 30%

Sec. 3. The rates of import duties and the classification of other articles Section 104 of the Tariff Customs Code of 1978, as amended, which are not affected by the provisions of Section 1 and 2 hereof, shall remain in full force and effect.

Sec. 4. All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Sec. 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred eighty-six.

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