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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
02.06	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		ad val.   60%
		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 and ad val. 100%
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%
73.40	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%
74.10	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%
84.10	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%

SEC. 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.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary