EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 148 December 27, 1993

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

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

Sec. 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under Section 104 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, as amended, shall pay the following rates of import duty.

Harmonized Rate of Duty (%)

Hdg. System 1 July No. Code Description 1993 1994 1995 17.01 Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form.

- Raw sugar not containing added flavoring or coloring matter:

1701.11 00 - - x x x

1701.12 00 - - x x x

- Other:

1701.91 00 - - x x x

1701.99 00 - - Other 70 60 50

23.09 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding.

2309.10 00 - - x x x

2309.90 - Other:

2309.90 10 - - - x x x

2309.90 20 - - - Prawn Feeds

2309.90 90 - - - x x x 20 20 20

Medicaments

(excluding goods of heading No. 30.02 or 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 packing for retail sale.

3004.10 00 - x x x

3004.20 00 - x x x - x x x

3004.31 00 - - x x x

3004.32 00 - - x x x

3004.39 00 - - x x x

3004.40 00 - - x x x

3004.50 00 - x x x

3004.90 - Other:

3004.90 10 - - - x x x

3004.90 20 - Closed sterile water system for inhalation pharmaceutical grade (USP, NF or BP) 10 10 10

3004.90 90 - - - x x x

35.03 Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives: isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein of heading No. 35.01

3503.00 10 - - - Gelatin, pharmaceutical grade (USP, NF or BP) 10 10 10

3503.00 90 - - - Other 20 20 20

40.07

4007.00 00 Vulcanized rubber thread and cord 30 30 30

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.

4401.10 00 - x x x - Wood in chips or particles

4401.21 00 - - Coniferous Free Free Free

4401.22 00 - - Non-Coniferous Free Free Free

4401.30 00 - x x x

54.07 Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading No. 54.04.

5407.10 - x x x:

5407.10 10 - - - x x x

5407.10 90 - - - x x x

5407.20 00 - x x x

5407.30 00 - x x x

- Other woven fabrics, containing 85% or more by weight of filaments of nylon or other polyamides:

5407.41 00 - - Unbleached or bleached:

5407.41 10 - - - NYLON MESH FABRIC OR UNTWISTED FILAMENT YARNS FOR USE AS REINFORCING MATERIAL FOR TARPAULIN SHEETING 10 10 10

5407.41 90 - - - OTHER 30 30 30

55.01 Synthetic filament tow

5501.10 00 - x x x

5501.20 00 - x x x

5501.30 00 - Acrylic or modacrylic 3 3 3

5501.90 00 - x x x

60.01 Pile fabrics, including "long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, limited or crocheted.

6001.10 00 - x x x xxx

6001.21 00 - - x x x

6001.22 00 - - x x x

6001.90 00 - - x x x - Others:

Others:

6001.91 00 - - x x x

6001.92 00 - Of man-made fibers:

6001.92 10 - - - PILE FABRICS OF 100% POLYESTER STAPLE FIBRES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT ROLLERS, MEASURING 2-1/2 TO 3 INCHES IN WIDTH 20 10 10

6001.92 90 - OTHER 30 30 30

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.

8511.10 00 - x x x

8511.20 00 - x x x

8511.30 00 - x x x

8511.40 - Starter motors and dual-purpose starter-generators:

8511.40 10 - Unassembled starter motors 3 3 3

8511.40 90 - Other 10 10 10

8511.50 - Other generators:

8511.50 10 - - - Unassembled alternators 3 3 3

8511.40 90 - - - Other

8511.80 00 - x x x

8511.90 00 - x x x

Sec. 2. Upon the effectivity of this order, all the aforementioned articles entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.

Sec. 3. All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive order, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Sec. 4. 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 27th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.