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Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Section 401 of Presidential Decree No. 1464, 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 Presidential Decree No. 1464 shall pay the following rates of import duty:

		Rate of Duty
Tariff         Heading No.	Description of Articles	Present	Recommended
28.03	Carbon (including carbon black):
	A. x x x
	B. Carbon black . . . . ad val.	[ 50%]	30%
28.30	Chlorides and Oxychlorides:
	A. x x x
	B. ZINC CHLORIDE, TECHNICAL OR INDUSTRIAL GRADE . . ad val.	[ 10%]	30%
	[ B.] C. Calcium chloride and ammonium chloride, commercial . . . . . . . ad val.	[ 50%]	50%
28.40	Phosphites, hypophosphites and phosphates:
	A. x x x
	B. Sodium tripolyphosphate AND TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	[ 30%]             [10%]	30%
38.08	Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof other than ester gums included in heading no. 39.05; rosin spirit and rosin oils:	[ 30%]
	A. ARTICLES NOT INCLUDED IN SUBHEADING B HEREOF . . AD VAL.	Unified         Rate of	30%
	B. GUM ROSIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	30%	50%
40.02	Synthetic rubber latex; pre-vulcanized synthetic rubber latex; synthetic rubber; factice derived from oils:	[ 30%]
	A. SYNTHETIC RUBBER . . . . . . . AD VAL.	Unified         Rate of	20%
	B. OTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	30%	30%
40.10	Transmission, conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of vulcanized rubber:	[ 20%]
	A. ARTICLES NOT INCLUDED IN SUBHEADING B AND C HEREOF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	Unified	20%
	B.CONVEYOR AND TRANSMISSION BELTS UP TO 46 INCHES (117 CENTIMETERS) IN WIDTH . . . . . . . AD VAL.	Rate         of	30%
	C. V-BELTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	20%	50%
55.09	Other woven fabrics of cotton:	[70%]
	A. TIRE CORD FABRIC AND TIRE WOVEN FABRIC WHEN IMPORTED DIRECTLY BY AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK TIRE MANUFACTURES FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE USE . . AD VAL.	Unified         Rate of	30%
	B. OTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	70%	70%
56.07	Woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste):	[ 70%]
	A. TIRE CORD FABRIC AND TIRE WOVEN FABRIC WHEN IMPORTED DIRECTLY BY AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK TIRE MANUFACTURES FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE USE . . . AD VAL.	Unified         Rate of	30%
	B. OTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	70%	70%
84.23	Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting machinery, stationary or mobile, for earth, minerals or ores (for example, mechanical shovels, coal-cutters, excavators, scrapers, levellers and bulldozers); pile-drivers snow plough, not self-propelled (including snow-plough attachments):	[ 10%]
	A. ARTICLES NOT INCLUDED IN SUBHEADING B HEREOF . . . . . .  AD VAL.	Unified         Rate of         10%	10%
	B. CUTTING EDGES AND END BITS FOR BULLDOZERS, SCRAPERS, GRADERS AND LEVELLERS . . . . . . AD VAL.		20%
85.04	Electric accumulators:
	A. HARD RUBBER BATTERY CONTAINERS AND CELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	Unified         Rate of	30%
	B. OTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	100%	50%
97.07	Fish-hooks, line fishing rods and tackle; fish landing nets and butterfly nets; decoy “birds”, lark mirrors and similar hunting or shooting requisites:
	A. Fish-hooks, LINE FISHING RODS OF FIBERGLASS REELS AND TACKLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	[ 20%]             [100%]	20%
	B. Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AD VAL.	[ 100%]	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.

SECTION 4. After the lapse of three years from the effectivity of this Executive Order, the Tariff Commission shall, in the case of tariff increases in this order, undertake a review of the effects of the protection herein granted to the respective industries to determine the possibility of phasing out the protective tariff under a graduated scheme. However, failure to comply with the requirement in this section shall mean an automatic reversion to the previous rate of duty.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.


By the President:

(SGD.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant