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Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Republic Act No. 1937, as amended, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct and order:

SECTION 1. The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under Section 104 of Republic Act No. 1937 shall pay the following rates of import duty:

Tari Heading No.	Description of Aticles	Rate ofDuty
29.23	Single or Complex oxygen function amino-compounds:
	A. Articles not included in sub-heading B hereof . . . . . ad val.	10%
	B. Glumatic acid and monosodium glutamate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	50%
40.11	Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable tyre threads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for wheels of all kinds:
	A. For aircraft, tractors and earth moving equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	30%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . .ad val.	50%
41.02	Bovine cattle leather (includingbuffalo leather) and equine leather except leather falling within heading No. 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08:
	A. Chrome-wet-blue hides and skin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	10%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	50%
47.01	Pulp derived by mechanical or chemical means from any fibrous vegetable material:
	A. Long-fibered pulp in rolls, sheets, blocks, slabs, cakes, shapes and similar forms unfit for use except as raw material for paper or paperboard manufactures . . . . . . ad val.	20%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	50%
51.04	Woven fabrics of man-made fiber (continuous), including woven fabrics of monofil or strip of Heading No. 51.01 or 51.02:
	A. Tire cord fabrics or tire woven fabrics . . . . . ad val.	30%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . ad val.	70%
54.02	Ramie, raw or processed but not spun; ramie noils and waste (including pulled or garnetted rags) . . . . . . .ad val.	20%
74.03	Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of copper; copper wire:
	A. Articles not included in sub-heading B and C hereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	10%
	B. Round copper rods and bars . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	30%
	C. Tinned copper wire (excluding wire of copper-based metal alloys) and bare wire; plated or coated with gold or silver . . . . . . . . . ad val.	50%
84.24	Agricultural and horticultural machinery for soil preparation and cultivation (for example ploughs, harrows, cultivators, seed and fertilizer distributors); lawn and sports ground rollers:
	A. Articles not included in sub-heading B hereof . . . . . ad val.	10%
	B. Animal drawn, walking tractor implements . . . ad val.	30%
84.41	Sewing machines; furniture specially designed for sewing machine needles;
	A. Head parts and head accessories; sewing machine needles; pitman complete and parts thereof; head assembly of industrial sewing machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	20%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . ad val.	70%
84.50	Gas-operated welding, brazing,cutting and surface tempering appliances:
	A. Component parts of manually operated gas welding, brazing, cutting and surface tempering appliances imported under prior authorization of the Board of Investments under a Progressive manufacturing program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	10%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . ad val.	30%
85.19	Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits, (for example, switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs, lampholders and junction boxes); resistors; fixed or variable (including potentiometers), other than heating resistors; printed circuits; switchboards (other than telephone switchboards) and control panels:
	A. Component parts of magnetic starters and circuit breaker imported with prior authorization of the Board of Investments under a progressive manufacturing program . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	10%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . ad val.	50%
87.02	Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or materials (including sports motor vehicles,other than those of heading No. 87.09):
	A. x x x
	B. x x x
	1. x x x
	2. x x x
	3. x x x
	C. x x x
	D. Components, parts and/or accessories imported from one or more countries for assembly of passenger cars by participants in the progressive car manufacturing program upon prior authorization and certification of the Board of Investments. . . . . . . . . . ad val.	30%
87.14	Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts thereof:
	A. Trailers and parts and accessories thereof . . ad val.	30%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . ad val.	70%
98.05	Pencil (other than pencils of Heading No. 98.03), pencil leads, slate pencils, crayons and pastels, drawing charcoals and writing and drawing chalks; tailor’s and billiards chalks:
	A. Pencil leads, rubber erasers and metal ferrules for pencil manufacture; tailor’s chalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ad val.	30%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . ad val.	50%

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 price 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 January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.


By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary