Executive
Order No. 461
PROVIDING FOR THE TARIFF NOMENCLATURE
AND IMPLEMENTING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTIES ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES UNDER
SECTION 401 OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978 (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 1464),
AS AMENDED
WHEREAS,
pursuant to
Republic Act No. 8180
entitled “An Act Deregulating the Downstream Oil Industry and for Other
Purposes,”
Executive Order No. 365
was issued providing for tariff duties of three percent (3%) and seven percent
(7%) on imported crude oil and refined petroleum products, respectively, except
fuel oil and LPG, the rate of which is the same as that for imported crude oil;
WHEREAS,
the
Supreme
Court has declared, with finality,
Republic Act
No. 8180 as
unconstitutional;
WHEREAS,
Sections 104 and 401 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978 (Presidential Decree
No. 1464), as amended, empower the President upon the recommendation of the
National Economic and
Development Authority, to increase, reduce or remove existing
protective rates of import duty, as well as to modify the form of duty;
NOW,
THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the
SECTION
1. The articles specifically listed in
ANNEX “A” hereof, as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs
Code of 1978, as amended, shall be levied the rates of import duty in
accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article as listed in the
aforementioned Annex.
SEC.
2. The nomenclature and the rates of
import duty on tariff headings not enumerated and those listed but represented
by the symbol “xxx” remain in force and effect.
SEC.
3. Upon the effectivity of this
Executive Order, the articles specifically listed in the aforesaid ANNEX “A”
which are entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for
consumption shall be levied the rates of duty therein prescribed.
SEC.
4. All Presidential issuances,
administrative rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent
with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
SEC.
5. Effectivity. – This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately following publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation
in the
Done
in the City of
ANNEX “A”
|
Hdg. No. |
Harmonized Community
Code |
Description |
Rates of Duty 01
January |
||
|
|
|
|
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
|
27.09 |
2709.00
00 |
Petroleum
oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
72.10 |
2710.00 |
Petroleum
oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude;
preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70% or
more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these
oils being basic constituents of the preparations. |
|
|
3 |
|
|
2710.00
10 |
---
Propylene tetramer |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
20 |
---
Carbon black feed-stock oil |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
30 |
---
Fuel oils |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
40 |
---
Lubricating oils, including lubricating oil basestock |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
50 |
---
Naphtha |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
60 |
---
Low aromatic solvents with less than 1% by weight aromatic content |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
70 |
---
Other low aromatic solvents |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
80 |
---
Gas oils (including diesel oil), kerosene (including kerosene type jet fuel) and
motor gasoline; other heavy oils |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2710.00
90 |
Other
oils and preparations |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
27.11 |
|
Petroleum
gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
-
Liquefied: |
|
|
|
|
|
2711.11
00 |
--
Natural gas |
10 |
10 |
10 |
|
|
2711.12
00 |
--
Propane |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2711.13
00 |
--
Butanes |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2711.14
00 |
--
Ethylene, propylene, butylene and butadiene |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2711.19
90 |
---
Other
-
x x x |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2711.21
00 |
--
x x x |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2711.29
00 |
--
x x x |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
27.12 |
|
Petroleum
jelly; paraffin wax, microcrystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite,
lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products obtained by synthesis
or by other processes, whether or not coloured. |
|
|
|
|
|
2712.10
00 |
-
Petroleum jelly |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2712.20
00 |
-
Paraffin wax contained by weight less than 0.75% of oil |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2712.90
00 |
-
Other |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
27.13 |
|
Petroleum
coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils
obtained from bituminous minerals.
-
Petroleum coke: |
|
|
|
|
|
2713.11
00 |
--
Not calcined |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2713.12
00 |
--
Calcined |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2713.20
00 |
-
Petroleum bitumen |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2713.90
00 |
-
Other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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