EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 684 May 8, 1981

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978, AS AMENDED

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order.

Sec. 1. The articles specifically listed in the Annex hereof as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, shall pay the rate of import duty indicated opposite each article as listed therein.

Sec. 2. After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles listed in the Annex hereof, entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 3. All Orders, Rules and Regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Order, are hereby repealed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.

Tariff Heading No.

 

Description of Articles

 

Rate of Duty

Present

Recommended

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

37.01

Photographic plates and film in the flat, sensitized, unexposed, of any material other than paper, paperboard or cloth:

A. [Cromalin] Film for making printing plates; X-RAY FILMS

ad val. [10%]

10%

B. . . .

[20%]

39.07

Article of materials of the kinds described in heading Nos. 39.01 to 39.66:

A. Bobbins, spools, cops, cones, cores, reels and similar supports when imported directly by textile mills for their exclusive use under prior authorization of the Board of Investments; HYGIENIC, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ARTICLES

ad val. [10%]

10%

[50%]

B. . . .

C. . . .

40.12

Hygienic and pharmaceutical articles (including teats), of unhardened vulcanised rubber, with or without fittings of hardened rubber

ad val. [20%]

10%

40.13

Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves), for all purposes, of unhardened vulcanised rubber:

Unified rate of

ad val. [50%]

A. SURGICAL GLOVES

AD VAL. 10%

B. OTHER

AD VAL. 50%

48.15

Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape:

A. Paper:

1. STERILIZATION INDICATORS (AUTOCIAVE TAPES)

AD VAL. [20%]

10%

2. [1] Filter paper [and sterilization indicator or strip (auto-clave tapes)]

ad val. [20%]

20%

3. [2] . . .

4. [3] . . .

B. . . .

C. . . .

48.21

Other articles of paper pulp, paper, paperboard or cellulose wadding:

A. . . .

B. Electrocardiograph paper; ULTRASONOGRAPHY PAPER,

SPIRROMETER PAPER, ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAPH PAPER AND FETAL MONITORING PAPER

[20%]

 

AD VAL. [80%]

C. . . .

59.11

Rubberized textile fabrics [;] other than knitted or croacheted goods:

Unified rate of

[ad val. 40%]

A. HOSPITAL RUBBER SHEETING

AD VAL. 10%

B. OTHER

AD VAL. 40%

70.17

Laboratory, hygienic and pharmaceutical glassware whether or not graduated or calibrated; glass ampoules:

Unified rate of

[ad val. 20%]

A. LABORATORY, MEDICAL, SURGICAL DENTAL AND HYGIENIC GLASSWARES AD VAL.

10%

B. OTHER

AD VAL. 20%

84.17

Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporizing, condensing, or cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical:

A. Drier for printing plate making, STERILISING APPARATUS (E.G., AUTOCLAVE APPARATUS, ETC.)

ad val. [10%]

10%

[20%]

B. . . .

85.20

Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps (including infra-red and ultra-violet lamps); arc-lamps; electrically ignited photographic flashbulbs: A. Carbon arc lamps, infra-red and ultra-violet lamp bulbs including reflector and mercury lamp bulbs; discharge lamps (e.g., sodium vapour lamps and metal halide lamps); SPECIAL PURPOSE BULBS FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT (E.G., FOR MICROSCOPE, SPECTROPHOTOMETER,GALVANOMETER, ETC.)

ad val. [10%]

10%

[40%]

B. . . .

C. . . .

85.21

Thermionic, cold cathode and photocathode valves and tubes (including vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes and mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes); photocells; mounted piezo-electric crystals; diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; electronic microcircuits:

A. TUBES FOR X-RAY MACHINES

AD VAL. [20%]

B. [A] Electron guns for TC picture tubes and other articles not included in subheadings A AND [B] C hereof

ad val. [20%]

20%

C. [B] Monochrome or black and white television picture tubes

ad val. [40%]

40%

90.13

Optical appliances and instruments (but not including lighting appliances other than searchlights, not falling within any other heading of this chapter: [

Unified rate of

ad val. 20%]

A. SPECIALIZED OPERATING LIGHTS

AD VAL.10%

B. OTHER

AD VAL. 20%

90.18

Mechano-therapy appliances, massage apparatus, psychological aptitude-testing apparatus, artificial respiration, ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy or similar apparatus; breathing appliances (including gas masks and similar respirators)

ad val. [20%]

10%


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