MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 5, January 21, 1962 ]

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NUMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by section.401 of Republic Act Number Nineteen hundred Thirty-Seven, I, DIOSDADO P. MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

Section 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under section 104 of Republic Act Number Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven shall pay the following rates of import duty:

Heading No. Description of Articles Rate of Duty
2.06 Meat and edible offals (except poultry liver), salted, dried, smoked, cooked or similarly treated:
A.Ham and bacon ad val.120%
B.Other ad val.60%
04.02 Milk and cream, preserved, concentrated or sweetened ad val. 10%
15.10 Fatty acids; acid oils from refining; fatty alcohols;
A.Coconut fatty alcohol ad val. 25%
B.Other ad val. 50%
16.01 Sausages and similar preparations of meat, meat offals or any other animals substances:
A. In airtight containers:
1. x x x
2. Other ad val. 80%
B. x x x
16.02 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offals:
A. Corned beef ad val. 8%
B. * * *
16.04 Prepared or preserved fish, including caviar substitutes and fish soups;
A. Mackerel, salmon, sardines, anchovies and tuna:
1. Tuna ad val. 15%
2. Other ad val. 8%
B. x x x
C. x x x
17.04 Sugar confectionery, not containing cocoa 1. W., 100kgs P100.00
or ad val. 160%
18.06 Chocolate and chocolate products:
A. Sugar confectionery containing cocoa ad val. 140%
B. Other ad val. 70%
19.02 Preparations of flour, starch or malt extract, of a kind used as infant food or for dietetic or culinary purposes, containing less than fifty per cent by weight of cocoa;
A. Malted milk without cocoa; hypoallergemic soy food ad val. 10%
B. Other ad val. 20%
25.10 Unground natural calcium phosphates, apatite and phosphate chalk g. w., 100 kgs.
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. Medium oils (e.g., kerosene and tractor fuel) ad val. 8%
C. x x x
28.16 Ammonia, anhydrous, or in solutions:
A. In solution ad val. 10%
B. Other ad val. 20%
28.27 Lead oxides ad val. 30%
29.42 Vegetable alkaloids, their salts, ethers, esters, and other derivatives ad val. 8%
30.03 Medicaments (including veterinary medicament):
A. Medicaments imported with previous authorization by the Secretary of Health regarding the quantity and quality of domestic production ad val. 15%
B. Other ad val. 30%
30.04 Wadding (including absorbent cotton), gauze, bandages, and similar articles (e.g., dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices) impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in retail packings for medical or surgical purposes:
A. Absorbent cotton (excluding cotton specialities) ad val. 40%
B. Adhesive plasters, medicated adhesive plasters and medicated bandages ad val. 20%
C. Other ad val. 10%
30.05 Other pharmaceutical articles:
A. Plaster-coated fracture bandages ad val. 15%
B. Other ad val. 8%
31.02 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous:
A. Ammonium sulphate ad val. 20%
B. Other ad val. 5%
31.03 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, phosphatic ad val. 20%
31.05 Other fertilizers; fertilizers of all kinds, in tablets, lozenges, and similar prepared forms or in packings of a gross weight not exceeding ten kilograms ad val. 20%
32.09 Varnishes, lacquers, and lacquer enamels; other paints and enamels; distempers, water pigments of the kind and used for finishing leather, pigments in linseed oil, white spirit, spirits of turpentine, varnish, or other paint or enamel media; prepared dyes in forms or packings of a kind sold by retail; STAMPING FOIL:
A. Prepared dyes in forms or packings of a kind sold by retail; stamping foil ad val. 25%
B. Other ad val. 100%
38.08 Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof other than ester gums included in heading No. 30.05; rosin spirit and rosin oils:
A. Polymerized rosin hardened rosin (calcium and magnesium derivatives of rosin, gloss oils, limed oils) ad val. 30
B. Other ad val. 10%
39.01 Condensation and polycondensation products, whether or not modified or polymerized (e.g., phenoplasts, aminoplasts, alkyds, linear polycondensation products, silicones):
A. Aminoplasts and phenoplasts in blocks, lumps, granules, flakes, pellets, or similar bulk forms or liquid form or liquid form (excluding aminoplast and phenoplast molding compound and adhesive), alkyd resins, unsaturated polyesters, and epoxy exters, whether or not modified or polymerized
B. Other ad val. 60%
39.02 Polymerization products (e.g., polythylenes and derivatives, polysiolbutylenes, polystyrene, chloride and acetate of poly-vinyl and other poly-vinyl derivatives, polyallyl esters, copolymers,
A. Polyvinyl acetate (homopolymers and copolymers) emulsions or water dispersible forms ad val. 60%
B. Other ad val. 20%
40.08 Plates and sheets (not cut or cut into rectangles), strips and profile shapes of unhardened vulcanized rubber:
A. Expanded or blown rubber:
1. Foam rubber ad val. 100%
2. Other ad val. 50%
B. Other ad val. 25%
40.11 Rubber tires and tubes for vehicles and air craft:
A. x x x
B. For bicycles and velocipedes ad val. 100%
C. x x x
D. x x x
40.12 Hygienic, medical, and surgical articles (including teats), of unhardened vulcanized rubber, with or without fittings of hardened rubber ad val. 13%
41.02 Bovine cattle hide leather (including buffalo leather) and equine leather, except leather falling within heading No. 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 ad val. 100%
41.04 Goat and kid skin leather, except leather falling within heading No. 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 ad val. 100%
41.05 Other kinds of leather, except leather falling within heading No. 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 ad val. 100%
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. Bond paper and onion skin paper ad val. 60%
5. x x x
6. Kraft paper ad val. 50%
7. Cleansing and toilet tissue paper ad val. 60%
8. Other ad val. 25%
B. x x x
C. x x x
51.04 Woven fabrics of continuous synthetic of artificial textiles, including woven fabrics of monofil or strip of heading No. 51.02:
A. Of rayon:
1. In the grey ad val. 75%
2. Other ad val. 100%
B. Other ad val. 100%
55.02 Cotton linters ad val. 50%
55.03 Cotton waste (including pulled or garnetted rage), not carded or combed ad val. 75%
55.04 Cotton, carded, or combed ad val. 80%
55.05 Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale ad val. 70%
55.06 Cotton yarn, put up for retail sale ad val. 70%
55.06 Woven fabrics of discontinuous or waste synthetic or artificial textiles:
A. of Rayon:
1. In the grey ad val. 75%
2. Other ad val. 100%
B. Other ad val. 100%
59.14 Wicks of woven, plaited, or knitted textile materials, for lamps, stoves, lighters, candles, and the like; tubular knitted gasmantle fabric and incandescent gas mantles:
A. x x x
B. Gas Mantle ad val. 13%
C. Other ad val. 25%
60.03 Stockings, understockings, socks, ankle socks, sockettes, footwear without applied soles and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized ad val. 200%
64.01 Footwear (including overshoes) with outer soles and uppers of rubber or artificial plastic material pair P4.00
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) ad val. 60%
69.12 Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of other kinds of pottery ad val. 60%
70.05 Unworked sheet glass (including flashed, glass), drawn or blown, in rectangles ad val. 70%
73.17 Tubes and pipes of cast iron ad val. 50%
73.20 Tube and pipes fittings of iron or steel (e.g., joints, elbows, unions, and flanges):
A. For cast iron and centrifugal cast iron pipes and tubes ad val. 30%
B. Other ad val. 10%
73.4 Other articles of iron or steel:
A. Drinking fountains ad val. 80%
B. Other ad val. 25%
74.03 Wrought bars, rods, angels, shapes and sections of copper; copperwire:
A. Neither polished nor coated
1. Wire, excluding wire of copper base metal alloys ad val. 50%
2. Round copper rods (excluding rods of copper base metal alloys) the diameter of which is not less than 6.5 millimeters nor more than 38.1 millimeters ad val. 10%
3. Other ad val. 20%
B. Polished or coated, but not otherwise worked:
1. Plated or coated, with gold or silver ad val. 70%
2. Tinned copper wire (excluding wires of copper-base metal alloys) ad val. 40%
3. Other ad val. 20%
74.1 Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes, plaited bands, and the like, of copper wire, but excluding insulted cables:
A. Stranded wires, ropes and cables up to one thousand five hundred (1,500) MCM ad val. 20%
B. Other ad val. 10%
84.1 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 of bronze:
1. Volute type, non-self-priming, with capacities from 70 to 4,000 GPM for total dynamic heads from 125 ft. down to 20 ft.; turbine type with capacities up to 30 GPM and 150 ft. total dynamic head ad val. 30%
2. Other ad val. 10%
B. Other ad val. 10%
84.12 Air conditioning machines, self-contained, comprising a motor-driven ventilator and elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air:
A. Air conditioning machines:
1. up to 2 H.P. ad val. 100%
2. Other ad val. 70%
B. x x x
84.15 Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electric and other):
A. Household refrigerators, freezers, and beverage coolers:
1. Compression type:
a. Up to 12 cu. ft. ad val. 150%
b. Other ad val. 120%
2. x x x
3. x x x
84.41 Sewing machines; furniture specially adapted for sewing machines; sewing machine needless:
A. Sewing machine, assembled:
1. Domestic or housefold type ad val. 70%
2. Industrial type:
a. With wooden cabinents and wooden parts ad val. 50%
b. Other ad val. 30%
B. x x x
C. Heads and other parts and accessories:
1. For domestic or household type of sewing machines:
a. Stands and parts thereof except pitman complete) ad val. 60%
b. Arm and bed, whether or not fitted with precision parts ad val. 60%
c. Other ad val. 10%
2. Other ad val. 10%
85.01 Electric generators, motor, transformers, converters (rotary or static), rectifiers, inducters, reactors, frequency transformers, and similar machinery and apparatus other than those falling within heading No. 85.08, 85.09 or 85.21:
A. Electrical transformers, transformers for radio, electronic amplifiers, and television sets, up to 5 kilovolt amperes; electric lamp ballasts for pre-heat and rapid start fluorescent lamps, ferminicidal lamps, and black light fluorescent lamps, up to 40 watts rating for operation on any voltage up to 290 volts, 60 cycles ad val. 100%
B. AC induction motors (open, semi-protected, protected, or dripproof), 110 to 440 volts, 2 to 6 poles, single-phase or 3-phase, 60 cycle, horizontal shaft, squirrel cage type, with fractional and integral ratings up to 5 HP, except motors having frames normally integral with other type of machinery; radio and television coils ad val. 20%
C. Others ad val. 10%
85.14 Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers; electric amplifiers:
A. Microphones and stands the refer ad val. 25%
B. Loudspeakers (sizes 2, 4, 5, 6½, 8, 4×6 or 3×5 inches in diameter) ad val. 100%
C. Electric amplifiers and reamplifiers, intercommunication sets, including high fidelity sets
ad val. 60%


D. Other loudspeakers

ad val. 25%
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. With cabinets ad val. 100%
2. Without cabinets ad val. 80%
3. x x x
b. x x x
c. x x x
d. Radio knobs and printed circuit boards ad val. 60%
e. Other ad val. 10%
B. x x x
C. x x x
85.19 Electric current controlling regulating, and distributing apparatus (e.g., switches, fuses, junction boxes, plugs, and sockets, rheostats, voltage regulators, relays, lightning arresters, switchboards, and control panels); resistances (including carbon resistance lamps and barretters) other than heating elements:
A. General purpose safety switchs, two-or-three pole, single throw type, thirty to one thousand two hundred and fifty to six hundred volts ad val. 40%
B. Other ad val. 10%
85.23 Electrically insulated (including enamelled or anodized wire, cable, strip, and other forms of conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors:
A. Wires and cables of copper, insulated with plastic, rubber, asbestos or tar-impregnated cotton yarn; steel-armoured cables (BX) and enamelled or magnet wire (excluding square or rectangular magnet wire; steel-armoured power cables, No. 1/0 AWG and larger; and multiconductor cables, No. 2 AWG and larger ad val. 20%
B. Other ad val. 10%
97.06 Appliances, apparatus, accessories, and requisites for gymnastics, athletics, or for sports and out door games (e.g., baseball, basketball, volleyball, football, golf, tennis, badminton, pelota, roller skates):
a. Balls for baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, and volleyball; softball and baseball masks; body protectors and bases ad val. 100%
ad val. 30%

Section 2. On and after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance and promulgation 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.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred sixty-two, and of the independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.1âшphi1

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary


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