Title
EO Adjusting Import Duty Rates on Specified Goods
Law
Executive Order No. 476
Decision Date
Dec 5, 1976
Ferdinand E. Marcos modifies import duty rates on various articles, including agricultural products and manufacturing materials, to enhance local industry competitiveness while imposing strict price controls to prevent unwarranted increases.
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Questions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 476)

The legal basis is Section 401 of Republic Act No. 1937, otherwise known as the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, as amended.

To modify the rates of import duty on certain imported articles as provided under the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines.

After 30 days from the issuance, all described articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the prescribed new rates of import duty.

Any unwarranted increase in prices of local products benefitted by the tariff changes shall be sufficient ground for the revocation of such tariff changes.

The proposed rate of import duty is 50% ad valorem.

The proposed import duty rate is 20% ad valorem.

The unified proposed import duty rate for inactive natural yeast is 50% ad valorem.

Special sports footwear equipped with spikes, studs, bars (e.g., athletic football, track and field shoes, and hockey boots), except golf shoes, have a proposed unified rate of 20% ad valorem.

The proposed import duty rate for grand pianos is a unified rate of 20% ad valorem.


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