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 AM…

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 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:

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Tariff Heading No.	Description of Article	Rate of Duty
04.02	Milk and cream, preserved, concentrated or sweetened	ad val. 8%
04.03	Butter:
	A. Butterfat (anhydrous milk fat) when imported by bonafide processors of butter, cheese or milk for their exclusive use in the manufacture of said products upon certification by the Tariff Commission and the National Economic Council	ad val. 15%
	B. x x x x
04.04	Cheese and curd:
	A. Curd when imported by bonafide processors of cheese for their exclusive use in the manufacture of said product upon certification by the Tariff Commission and the National Economic Council	ad val. 25%
	B. x x x x
08.02	Citrus fruit	g.w., kg. P1.50 or ad val. 60%
09.01	Coffee (including husks, skin and other waste), whether or not roasted or freed of caffeine	ad val. 50%
18.01	Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted	g.w., 100 kgs. P75.00 or ad val. 40%
24.02	Manufactured tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. x x x
	E. x x x
	F. x x x
	G. Homogenized sheet or foil made of tobacco	l.w., kg. P4.00
	H. Other	n.w., kg. P20.00 or ad val. 100%
27.04	Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite and of peat	g.w., 100 kgs. P0.15
27.10	Petroleum and shale oils, other than crude; preparations not otherwise provided for, containing not less than 70 per cent by weight of petroleum or shale oils these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. Petroleum naphtha when imported by fertilizer manufacturers for their exclusive use in the manufacture of nitrogenous fertilizer certified as such by the Tariff Commission and the National Economic Council	ad val. 15%
29.45	Other organic compounds:
	A. x x x
	B. Other	ad val. 50%
31.02	Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenuous	ad val. 20%
32.07	Other coloring matter; inorganic luminophores	ad val. 25%
38.19	Chemical products and preparations of the chemical and allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products) not otherwise provided for; residual products of the chemical and allied industries, not otherwise provided for:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Hydraulic brake fluid	ad val. 20%
	D. Other	ad val. 50%
39.01	Condensation and polycondensation products, whether or not modified or polymerized (e.g., phenoplasts, aminoplasts, alkyds, linear poly-condensation products, silicones):
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Sheets, strips, pipes, tubes and other extruded shapes	ad val. 50%
	D. Other	ad val. 35%
39.02	Polymerization products (e.g., polyethylene and derivatives; polyisobutylene, polystyrene, chloride and acetate of polyvinyl and other polyvinyl derivatives, polyallylesters copolymers, coumaroneindene resins):
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. Polymerization and copolymerization products:
	1. Plates, sheets, strips, film and foil excluding polyethylene film coated with plant propagating material and polyvinyl butyral laminating sheets	ad val. 50%
	2. Other	ad val. 35%
39.06	Other artificial high polymers, artificial resins and plastic materials:
	A. Sheets, strips, pipes, tubes and other extruded shapes	ad val. 50%
	B. Other	ad val. 35%
40.11	Rubber tires and tubes for vehicles and aircraft:
	A. For aircraft	ad val. 25%
	B. For bicycle, motorcycle, scooters and velocipedes	ad val. 100%
	C. For tractors	ad val. 45%
	D. Other
	1. Tires	per tire P120.00 or ad val. 60%
	2. Tubes	ad val. 60%
48.01	Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), machine made:
	A. Paper:
	1. x x x
	2. x x x
	3. x x x
	4. x x x
	5. x x x
	6. x x x
	7. x x x
	8. x x x
	9. x x x
	10. Tabulating index paper for making statistical punch cards and treasury warrants when imported directly by bonafide statistical punch card and treasury warrant manufacturers .	ad val. 40%
	11. Other	ad val 80%
48.07	Coated (including surface-colored, decorated or printed) or impregnated paper and paperboard in rolls or sheets, not being printed matter falling within Chapter 49:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. Others:
	1. Coated or impregnated paper or paperboard, excluding claycoated paper, wax paper and surface-colored, decorated or printed paper or paperboard	ad val. 30%
	2. Other	ad val. 80%
63.03	Remnants	kg. P10.00 or ad val. 60%
69.11	Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china (including biscuit porcelain and parian)	g.w., kg. P5.00 or ad val. 60%
69.12	Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of other kinds of pottery	g.w., kg. P5.00 or ad val. 60%
73.10	Bars and rods (including wire rod) of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged or cold-finished (including precision-made; hollow mining drill steel):
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. x x x
	E. Cold rolled flat steel coils with sizes up to 9.75 mm x 1.19 mn., cold-finished steel bars in coils; wire rods of the kind used for the manufacture of welding electrodes when imported directly by welding rod manufacturers certified as such by the Tariff Commission and the National Economic Council	ad val. 20%
	F. Other	ad val. 60%
73.11	Angles, shapes sections, and sheets piling of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged or cold-finished, whether or not drilled or punched, but not assembled:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Other	ad val. 30%
73.15	Alloy steel and high carbon steel in the forms mentioned in headings numbered 73.06 to 73.14:
	A. Strips of stainless steel	ad val. 20%
	B. Wire of high carbon steel imported directly by wire rope and cable manufacturers for their exclusive use, wire rod of alloy and high carbon steel imported directly by spring wire manufacturers for their exclusive use, in both cases certified as such by the Tariff Commission and the National Economic Council	ad val. 10%
	C. Other	ad val. 50%
73.20	Tube and pipe fittings of iron or steel (e.g., joints, elbows, unions and fingers)	ad val. 30%
73.24	Compressed gas cylinders and similar pressure containers, of iron or steel:
	A. Empty acetylene shells	ad val. 40%
	B. Other	ad val. 50%
73.25	Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel wire, other than insulated cables	g.w., kg. P0.35 or ad val. 30%
73.32	Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends, screw studs, and other screws for metal), whether or not threaded or tapped, screws for wood, screw hooks, screw rings and the like, of iron or steel; rivets (excluding tubular or bifurcated), cotters, cotterpins, washers and spring washers, of iron or steel	g.w., kg. P0.70 or ad val. 50%
73.35	Springs (excluding hairsprings falling within Chapter 91) of iron or steel	ad val. 30%
73.36	Stoves, grates, kitchen ranges, cookers, fires and the like (including combined stoves and boilers), not electrically operated, and parts thereof, of iron or steel	ad val. 40%
74.03	Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of copper; copper wire:
	A. Neither polished nor coated:
	1. x x x
	2. x x x
	3. Copperweld and copper-alloy wire	ad val. 25%
	4. Other	ad val. 50%
	B. x x x
76.13	Woven wire (including wire gauze and wire cloth), wire grill and wire netting, of aluminum:
	A. Wire grill (i.e., where strands are welded at points of contact, whether or not strands are interlaced)	ad val. 25%
	B. Other	ad val. 50%
82.04	Hand tools, including mounted glaziers’ diamonds, not falling within any other heading of this Chapter; blow lamps, anvils; hand, table and bench vises and clamps; portable forges and mounted grinding wheels (hand or pedal-operated):
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Other	ad val. 25%
83.02	Base metal fittings and mountings of a kind suitable for furnitures, doors, windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, and the like (including automatic door closers); base metal hatracks, hat pegs, brackets and the like:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Other	ad val. 40%
83.07	Lamps and lighting fittings and parts thereof, of base metal (excluding switches, electric lamp holders, electric lamps for vehicles, electric battery or magneto lamps, and other articles falling within Chapter 85):
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Fluorescent and incandescent lamp fixtures	ad val. 40%
	D. Other	ad val. 100%
83.11	Bells and gongs (nonelectric) and parts thereof, of base metal	ad val. 60%
84.06	Internal combustion engines:
	A. Engines:
	1. x x x
	2. Other:
	a. x x x
	(1) x x x
	(2) x x x
	(3) x x x
	b. x x x
	C. Other	ad val. 90%
	B. x x x
84.10	Pumps for liquid (whether or not fitted with measuring devices); liquid elevators of bucket, chain screw, band and similar kinds:
	A. Centrifugal water pumps, single stage single suction, horizontal shaft type suitable for belt drive or direct coupling (except pumps with shafts common with prime mover), with casings and impellers of cast iron or bronze	ad val. 30%
	B. x x x
84.11	Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor pumps and turbo-pumps and compressors); ventilators, blowers and the like:
	A. Parts (excluding electric motors and parts thereof falling in heading 85.01)	ad val. 30%
	B. Open type compressors rated over 7 1/2 tons of refrigeration hermetically sealed compressors with ratings over 24,000 BTU/HR; air pump vacuum pumps, ventilators, air compressors, blowers (excluding blowers for self-contained air conditioning machines)	ad val. 30%
	C. Other	ad val. 60%
84.12	Air conditioning machines, self-contained, comprising a motor-driven ventilator and elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air:
	A. x x x
	B. Parts and accessories:
	1. x x x
	2. x x x
	3. Other	ad val. 40%
84.15	Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electric and other):
	A. Household refrigerators, freezers and beverage coolers:
	1. x x x
	(a) x x x
	(b) x x x
	2. x x x
	3. x x x
	(a) x x x
	(b) Other	ad val. 50%
	B. Other	ad val. 50%
84.17	Machinery or plant, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporizing, condensing, cooling and/or other processes necessitating a change of temperature, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for household purposes, instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical:
	A. Sterilizing machinery and apparatus	ad val. 20%
	B. Other	ad val. 40%
84.19	Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labeling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; other packing or wrapping machinery; machinery for aerating mineral waters; dish washing machines .	ad val. 60%
84.30	Machinery, not falling within any other heading of this Chapter, of a kind used in the following food or drink industries; bakery, confectionery, chocolate manufacture, macaroni, ravioli or similar cereal food manufacture, the preparation of meat, fish, fruit or vegetable (including, mincing or slicing machines), sugar manufacture or brewing	ad val. 40%
84.35	Other printing machinery, not being machines for printing textile fabric, wallpaper or the like; machines for use ancillary to printing	ad val. 25%
84.38	Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading No. 84.37 (dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanism and the like); parts and accessories for machines of the present heading or for machines falling within headings, numbered 84.36 and 84.37 (e.g. spindles, spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald lifters,hosiery or needles)	ad val. 40%
84.56	Machinery for sorting, screening, washing, crushing, grinding or mixing earth, stone and similar solid substances; machinery for agglomerating of molding solid fuels, ceramic paste, concrete, plastering materials and the like, or for shaping foundry molds of sand	ad val. 25%
84.59	Machinery or appliances not falling within any other heading in this Chapter	ad val. 25%
84.65	Machinery part (not electrical) not falling within any other heading in this Chapter	ad val. 40%
85.01	Electric generators, motors, transformers, converters (rotary or static), rectifiers, inductors, reactors, frequency transformers and similar machinery and apparatus, other than those falling within heading Nos. 85.08, 85.09 or 85.21:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. x x x
	E. Radio and television coils	ad val. 25%
	F. Other	ad val. 25%
85.12	Electric geysers and other electric water heaters and immersion heaters; electric soil heating apparatus; and electric space heating apparatus; electric hair dressing appliance (e.g., hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and electric smoothing irons; thermoelectric domestic appliances; electric heating resistances, other than those of carbon:
	A. Domestic appliances (e.g., flatirons, ovens, stoves, heaters, toasters)	ad val. 40%
	B. Other	ad val. 20%
85.13	Electrical line telephonic and telegraphic apparatus including such apparatus for carrier current line systems):
	A. x x x
	1. x x x
	2. x x x
	B. Other	ad val. 25%
84.14	Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers; electric-amplifiers:
	A. Microphones and stands therefor; electric amplifiers	ad val. 50%
	B. Other	ad val. 100%
85.15	Radio and television transmitting and receiving apparatus (including those incorporating gramophones) and television cameras, radio and radar communication, detection, navigational aid and remote control apparatus:
	A. Radio and television receiving apparatus (including those incorporating gramophones and high-fidelity-systems):
	1. x x x
	2. x x x
	3. Parts and accessories:
	(a) x x x
	(b) x x x
	(c) x x x
	(d) x x x
	(e) x x x
	(f) Other	ad val. 50%
	B. x x x x
	C. x x x x
	D. Television cameras, radio navigational aid apparatus (e.g., radio beacons and buoys, etc.) radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus	ad val. 30%
	E. Other	ad val. 50%
85.21	Thermionic and electronic tubes and valves, including cathode-ray tubes; photoelectric cells; crystal diodes, triodes and the like (including transistors); mounted piezo-electric crystals:
	A. Television picture tubes	each P35.00 or ad val. 40%
	B. x x x
	C. x x x
85.23	Electrically-insulated (including enamelled or anodized) wire, cable, strip and other forms of conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors:
	A. x x x
	B. Litz wire (fine copper wire covered with cotton thread used in radio or T.V. coils), square or rectangular magnet wire and polyurethane insulated magnet wire, submarine communication cables, lead-covered terminating cables and stalpeth cables	ad val. 25%
	C. Other	ad val. 50%
85.27	Electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating materials	ad val. 40%
85.28	Electrical parts of machinery and apparatus, not being articles falling within any of the proceeding headings of this Chapter	ad val. 40%
87.06	Parts and accessories of tractors and other motor vehicles:
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	C. Other	ad val. 20%
92.11	Gramophones, dictating machines and other sound recorders and reproducers, including record players and tape decks with or without sound heads and those incorporating high fidelity systems	ad val. 60%

SECTION 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.

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

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.

By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary