105 OG No. 3, 275 (March 09, 2009)
WHEREAS, at the
4
th ASEAN Informal Summit held in Singapore in
November 2000, the ASEAN Heads of Government/State agreed on the
Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) in order to narrow the
development gap between the older and newer members of ASEAN and to
enhance the new members’ integration with the rest of the
ASEAN;
WHEREAS, to implement the
decision of the ASEAN Heads of Government/State, the ASEAN Economic
Ministers, at their meeting in Siemreap, Cambodia on 3-5 May 2001,
decided to implement the ASEAN Generalized System Preferences Scheme
(now AISP) on bilateral
basis;
WHEREAS, the preference is
a unilateral offer made by preference-giving countries (Brunei,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) to the
preference-receiving countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and
Vietnam);
WHEREAS, on 5 August
2008, the NEDA Board approved the proposed elimination of the tariff on
products listed in “Annex A” imported from Cambodia and Myanmar, under
the AISP;
WHEREAS, Section 402 of
the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines (P.D. 1464), as amended,
empowers the President of the Republic of the Philippines, upon the
recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority, to
modify, decrease or remove existing protective rates of import duties
for the promotion of foreign trade.
NOW,
THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order:
SECTION 1. The Articles
specifically listed in “Annex A” (Articles Granted Concession Under the
AISP Package of the Philippines), hereof, as classified under Section
104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall be
subject to the AISP rate of duty indicated in Column 5 of “Annex A”
when imported from Cambodia and Myanmar (preference-receiving
countries) indicated in Column 6 of “Annex
A”.
SECTION 2. From the date of
effectivity of this Order, all articles listed in “Annex A” entered
into or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption
shall be imposed the rates of duty therein prescribed subject to
qualification under the Rules of Origin of forty percent (40%) single
country content (Cambodia or Myanmar) as provided for in the Agreement
on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free
Trade Area signed on 28 January
1992.
SECTION 3. All presidential
issuances, administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof,
which are contrary or inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby
repealed or modified accordingly.
SECTION
4. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately
following its complete publication in the Official Gazette or in a
national newspaper of general circulation.
Done in
the City of Manila, this 7th day of November, in the year of Our Lord,
Two Thousand and Eight.
(Sgd.) GLORIA M.
ARROYO
By the
President:
(Sgd.) EDUARDO R.
ERMITAExecutive
Secretary“ANNEX
A”
ARTICLES GRANTED CONCESSION UNDER THE ASEAN
INTEGRATION SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (AISP) PACKAGE OF THE
PHILIPPINES
Hdg. No. | AHTN
Code
2004 | AHTN
Code
2007 | Description
| Applicable AISP Rate (%) 2008
| Preference Receiving Country
|
(1)
| (2) | (3)
| (4) | (5)
| (6)
|
46.02
|
|
| Basket, wickerwork and
other articles, made directly to shape from plaiting materials or made
up from goods of heading 46.01; articles of loofah.
|
| |
| | | - Of vegetable materials:
|
| |
| 4602.10.90 | 4602.19.00 | - - Other | 0 | Myanmar
|
61.04
|
|
| Women’s or girl’s suits,
ensembles, jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided skirts, trousers,
bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other than swimwear),
knitted or crocheted.
| | |
| | | - Trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and
shorts;
| | |
| 6104.69.90 | ex. 6104.69.00 | - - Of other textile materials, other than of ramie,
linen or silk
| 0 | Cambodia
|
61.05
|
|
| Men’s or boy’s shirts,
knitted or crocheted.
| | |
| 6105.90.90 | ex. 6105.90.00 | - Of other textile materials, other than of ramie, linen
or silk | 0 | Cambodia
|