Executive Order No. 162

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 162, August 17, 1965 ]

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

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Republic Act Number Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven, I, Diosdado 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:

Tariff Heading No. Description of Articles Rate of Duty
15.07 Foxed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified:
A. Crude:
1. *******
2. *******
3. Tung and oiticica oil........ad val.
4. Other........ad val.

20%
35%
B. Refined or purified:
1. *******
2.Tung and oiticica oil........ad val.
3. Other........ad val.
35%
70%
24.02 Manufactured tobacco; tobacco extracts and andessences:
A. *******
B. *******
C. *******
D. Cigarettes of all kinds n.w., kg. ........
and ad val. ........
E. *******
F. *******

₱10.00
50%
32.09 Varnished, lacquers and lacquer enamels: other paints and enamels; distempers, water, pigment of the kind used for finishing leathers, pigments in linsed oil, white spirit, of turpentin, varnished or other paint or enamel media; prepared dyes in forms of packings of of a kind sold by retail; STAMPING FOIL:

A. *******
B. Aluminum paste; water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather........ad val.
C. Other........ad val.

75%
100%
33.01 Essential oils (Terpeneless or not); concretes and absolutesl residnoids:
A. Lime oil and lemon oil........ad val.
B. Other........ad val.
25%
50%
37.01 Plates, sensitized, unexposed, of glass or other materials (including film in the flat):
A. *******
B. Other........ad val.

15%
47.02 Waste paper (including old and out of date newspaper and periodicals) and paperboard; scrap articles of paper or of paperboard, fit only for use in papermaking........ad val.

15%
48.15 Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape:
A. Paper:
1. *******
2. *******
3. *******
4. *******
5. Filter paper........ad val.
6. Other........ad val.

25%
45%
B. Paperboard:
1. Filterboard........1.2., kg.
and ad val
2. Other........1.w., kg.
and ad val.
C. ******* ₱0.10
50%
₱0.15
75%
58.05 Narrow woven fabrics, and narrow fabrics (boldoc) consisiting of warp without weft, assembled by means of an edhesive, other than articles falling within heading No. 58.06;
A. Narrow woven fabrics of the kind being processed into inked ribbons for type-writers and similar machines........ad val.
B. Other........ad val

30%
60%
58.08 Tulle and other net fabrics (but not including woven, kinitted or crocheted fabrics), plain:
A. Knotted net fabric for fishing nets:
1. Of cotton........ad val.
2. Of staple type man-made textiles........ad val.
3. Other........ad val. 50%
60%
35%
B. Other:
1. Of cotton, other vegetable textiles or rayon........ad val.
2. Of synthetic or of other artificial textile........ad val.
3. Other........ad val. 50%
60%
70%
65.06 Other headgear, trimmed or not:
A. *******
B. Other:
1. For welders and other safty headgear........ad val.
2. Other........ad val

40%
50%

70.10 Glass carboys, bottles, demijohns, jars, pots, tubular containers and similar containers of a kind used for the packing and other closures, of glass:
A. ******
B. Opal glass containers........ad val.
C. Other:
1. BOttles and vials for antibiotics, serum and other injectibles........ad val.
2. Other........ad val.

10%

20%
40%
73.40 Other articles of iron or steel:
A. *******
B. Grinding balls and rods and industrial belt lacings........ad val.
C. Other........ad val.

15%
25%
84.29 Machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry and other machinery for the working of cereals or leguminous vegetables:
A. *******
B. Rubber roller -type rice huller and parts thereof........ad val.
C. Other........ad val.

20%
10%
87.02 Motor vehicles for the transport of persons or articles; sports motor vehicles:
A. Jeeps, vans, trucks and buses:
1. Diesel or semi-diesel........ad val.
2. Other........ad val.
B. *******
C. *******
D.*******

15%
20%
92.03 Pipe and read organ, including harmoniums and the like but excluding mouth organs ad val. 20%
92.04 Accordions, cocertinas and similar musical instruments; mouth organs:
A. Harmonicas........ad val.
B. Other........ad val.
25%
20%
92.05 Other wind muscial instruments........ad val. 20%
92.07 Electromagnetic, electrostatic, electronic and similar musical instruments (e.g., pianos, organs and accordions)........ad val.
20%
92.10 Parts and accessories of musical instruments (other than strings), including mechanisms for musical boxes and perforated music rolls; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds:
A. *******
B. Parts and accessories of guitars, ukuleles, violins, drums, cymbals, wind and brass instruments (e.g., machineheads, pegs, picks, tailpieces, bows, floor stand, holder, pedals, wire brush, drumheads, drum sticks, snare strands, muffler, pickups, reeds and mouthpieces)........ad val.
C. Other........ad val.

10%
15%
95.08 Molded or carved article of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins, (eg., copal or rosin), or of modeling pastes, and other molded or carved articles, not otherwise provided for worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin flling within heading No. 35.03) and articles of unhardened gelatin:
A. Empty gelatin capsules for pharmaceutical products........ad val.
B. Other........ad val.

50%
100%

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 17th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-five.1a⍵⍴h!1

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN S. CANCIO
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary

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