Executive Order No. 171

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 171, September 22, 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 Numbered 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 Numbered Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven shall pay the following rates of import duty:

Tariff Heading No. Description of Articles Rate of Duty
73.13 Sheets and plates of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled:
A. Tinplates
1. xxxx
2. Electrolytic ad val.
B.xxxxxxx

40%

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 After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse, in the Philippines, for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein prescribed.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 22nd day of September, 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.) SALVADOR L. MARIÑO
Acting Executive Secretary

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