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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
04.03	Butter:
	A. * * * * *
	B. Other	ad. val. 70% or n.w., Kg.	P2.60
11.02	Cereal groats and cereal meal; other worked cereal grains (e.g., rolled or flaked, with or without heat-treatment, polished, pearled or crushed, or enriched by vitamins or minerals but not further prepared), except husked, glazed, polished or broken rice; edible germ of cereals:
	A. Oat groats	g.w., 100 kgs.	P15.00
	B. Other	g.w., 100 kgs.	P30.00
12.01	Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whole or broken:
	A. * * * * * *
	B. * * * * * *
	C. Soybeans	g.w., 100 kgs.	P25.00
	D. Other	g.w., 100 kgs.	P50.00
12.07	Plants and parts of plants, seeds and fruits, being articles of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal and similar purposes, fresh or dried, whole, crushed, ground or powdered:
	A. Pyrethrum	ad. val. 20%
	B. Other	ad. val 40%
19.07	Bread, ship’s biscuits and other ordinary bakers’ products, not containing sugar, honey, eggs, fats, cheese or fruit	g.w., 100 kgs.	P60.00
19.08	Pastry, biscuits, cakes and other fine bakers’  products, whether  or not containing  cocoa in any proportion	g.w., 100 kgs.	P80.00
29.23	Single or complex oxygen-function amino-compounds:
	A. Monosodium Glutamate	n.w., kg. or ad. val. 50%	P3.00
	B. Other	ad. val. 10%
35.03	Gelatin (including  gelatin in  rectangles, whether or not colored or surface-worked) and gelatin derivatives; glues derived from bones, hides, nerves, tendons, or similar products, and fish  glues; isinglass:
	A. Animal glue	ad. val. 30%
	B. Other	ad. val. 15%
48.07	Coated (including surface-colored decorated or printed) or impregnated paper and paper board in rolls or sheets, not being printed matter falling within Chapter 49:
	A. Carbon paper	ad. val. 30%
	B. Stencil sheets	ad. val. 50%
	C. Other	ad. val. 25%
48.14	Writing blocks, envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards, correspondence cards; boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums of paper or paperboard containing an assortment of paper stationary	ad. val. 65%
48.15	Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape:
	A. Paper:
	1. * * * * * *
	2. * * * * * *
	3. Bond paper and onion skin paper	ad. val. 65%
	4. Toilet paper, in rolls, packets or otherwise put up	ad. val. 65%
	5. Other	ad. val. 45%
48.17	Box files and storage boxes, of paper or paper-board, of a kind commonly used in offices, shops and the like	ad. val. 55%
48.18	Registers, exercise books, note books, memorandum blocks, order books, receipt books, diaries, blotting pads, binders (loose-leaf or other), file covers and other stationary of paper or paperboard; sample and other albums and books covers, of paper or paperboard	ad. val. 65%
48.21	Other articles of paper pulp, paper, paperboard or cellulose wadding:
	A. Serviettes	ad. val. 65%
	B. Other	ad. val. 50%
51.01	Yarn of continuous synthetic or artificial textiles, not put up for retail sale:
	A. Filament tow	ad. val. 15%
	B. Other	ad. val. 30%
73.10	Bars and rods (including wire rod) of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged or cold-finished (including precision-made); hollow mining drill steel:
	A. * * * * * *
	B. * * * * * *
	C. Wire rods (excluding wire rods for manufacture into welding electrode when imported directly by welding rod manufacturers.)	ad. val. 40%
	D. Other	ad. val. 15%
73.14	Iron or steel wire, single strand, whether or not coated, but not insulated:
	A. Not coated	ad. val. 75% or g.w., 100 kgs.	P16.00
	B. Other:
	1. Nailwire	ad. val. 75% or g.w., 100 kgs.	P16.00
	2. Other	ad. val. 15%
73.31	Nails, tacks, staples, hook nails, cramps, studs, spikes and drawing pins, of iron or steel (other than copper-headed nails):
	A. * * * * * *
	B. * * * * * *
	C. Railroad track spikes	ad. val. 75%
	D. Other	ad. val. 20%
73.34	Pins (excluding hatpins and other ornamental pins and drawing pins), hairpins, hairclips and curling grips, of iron or steel:
	A. Bobby hairpins	ad. val. 75%
	B. Other	ad. val. 15%
82.14	Spoons, forks, fish knives, butter knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware:
	A. * * * * * *
	B. Spoons, forks, teaspoons and knives, of stainless  steel	gross or ad. val. 50%	P10.00
	C. Other	ad. val. 20%
83.02	Base metal fittings and mountings of a kind suitable for furniture, doors, windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, and the like (including automatic door closers); base metal hatracks, hat pegs, brackets and the like:
	A. * * * * * *
	B. Butt hinges up to size 4 inch by 4 inch	ad. val. 75%
	C. Other	ad. val. 15%
84.15	Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electric and other):
	A. Household refrigerators, freezers and beverage coolers:
	1. * * * * * *
	2. Absorption type	ad. val. 80%
84.20	Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of five centigrams or better), including weight-operated counting and checking machines; weights therefore:
	A. Platform scale (excluding dial automatic type and no loose weight steel yard type):
	1. 500 and 1,000 kilogram capacity	ad val. 30%
	2. Parts and accessories:
	a. Graduated beam assembly, steel knife edges, steel knife edge receivers and standard weights	ad. val. 15%
	b. Other	ad. val. 30%
	B. Counter scale (excluding dial automatic type and no loose weight steel yard type):
	1. 10 kilogram capacity	ad. val. 30%
	2. Parts and accessories:
	a. Graduated beam assembly, steel knife edges, steel knife edge receivers and standard weights	ad. val. 15%
	b. Other	ad. val. 30%
	C. Other	ad. val. 15%
84.23	Earth excavating, leveling, boring and extracting machinery, stationary or mobile (e.g., mechanical shovels, coal cutters, excavators, scrapers, levelers, bulldozers); pile drivers; snow plows, not self-propelled (including snow plow attachments):
	A. Rooter, ripper and bucket teeth for earth excavating leveling and extracting machinery	ad. val. 25%
	B. Other	ad. val. 10%
85.01	Electric generators, motors, transformers, converters (rotary or static), rectifiers, inductors, reactors, frequency transformers and similar machinery and apparatus, other than those falling within heading No. 85.08, 85.09 or 85.21:
	A. * * * * * *
	B. AC Induction squirrel cage type motors open, semi-protected, protected or drip-proof, horizontal shaft with fractional and integral ratings up to 5 HP; splash proof or totally enclosed fan-cooled, 1200 to 3600 RPM with fractional and integral ratings from 1/6 HP to 30 HP), 110 to 440 volts, 2 to 6 poles, single-phase or 3-phase, 60 cycle, except motors having frames normally integral with other types of machinery; radio and television coils	ad. val. 20%
	C. Other	ad. val. 10%
85.06	Electromechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor:
	A. Electric floor polishers, up to 16 inches brush diameter, 110 or 220 volts	ad. val. 40%
	B. Other	ad. val. 25%
87.10	Cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorized	ad. val 80%
90.29	Parts and accessories of instruments or apparatus falling within headings numbered 90.24, 90.26, 90.27 and 90.28:
	A. Parts for water meters, sizes 5/8" x ½", ¾" and 1"	ad. val. 40%
	B. Other	ad. val. 10%
97.01.	Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (e.g., toy bicycles, tricycles, scooters and pedal motor cars); dolls’ prams and dolls’ push chairs:
	A. Children’s  tricycles	ad. val. 80%
	B. Other	ad. val. 60%
98.15	Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof, other than glass inners:
	A. Complete vessels with or without cups and stoppers, of a capacity of 5 pints or less	dozen or ad. val. 40%	P9.00
	B. Other	ad. val. 20%

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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 25th day of January, 1963, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) SALVADOR L. MARIÑO
Executive Secretary