EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 865 January 20, 1983

MODIFYING THE RATE OF DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1982

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 410 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1982, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

Sec. 1. The article acetate tow under heading No. 56.02.500 of the Code is hereby amended and a subdivision thereof is provided to read as follows:

Rate of Duty
		1983	1984	1985
56.02	Continuous filament tow for manufacture of man-made fibres (discontinuous):
		xxx	xxx	xxx
56.02.400	Of regenerated fibres:
	ad val.	20%	20%	20%
56.02.510	ACETATE TOW AD VAL.	10%	10%	10%
56.02.590	OTHERS . . . . . AD VAL.	20%	20%	20%

Sec. 2. These rates of duty shall be effective on January 1, 1983. All articles under this heading, when entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rate of import duty as herein prescribed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-three.