National Emergency Memorandum Order No. 8, s. 1990

Signed on

MALACAÑANG
MANILA

NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 8

MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTIES ON CERTAIN ARTICLES UNDER SECTION 104 OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF 1978, AS AMENDED

I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, pursuant to Section 3(1) “To protect the people from hoarding, profiteering, injurious speculations, manipulation of prices, product deceptions, and cartels, monopolies or other combinations in restraint of trade, or other pernicious practices affecting the supply, distribution and movement of food, clothing, medicine and medicinal supplies, office and schools supplies, fuel, fertilizers, chemicals, building materials, implements, machinery equipment and spare parts required in agriculture, industry and other essential services, and other articles of prime necessity, whether imported or locally produced or manufactured”; (2) (a) “to purchase any of the articles or commodities herein above mentioned, for storage, sale or distribution for the relief of hunger and want of the population, and/or to stabilize the prices of such foodstuffs, articles and other commodities”; (4) “To liberalize the importation and/or grant incentives for manufacture, assembly, reconditioning, or importation of needed vehicles or vessels, including the necessary parts thereof, for public transportation to relieve the transportation crises;” and (7) “To conserve and regulate the distribution and use of power, fuels and energy and ensure adequate supply of the same”; of Republic Act No. 6826 authorizing the President to issue rules and regulations to carry out the above powers, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. Import duties upon the following articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, are hereby modified as follows:

HDG NO. HARMONIZED SYSTEM CODE DESCRIPTION RATE OF DUTY (%)
30.03 Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No. 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of two or more constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale.
3003.10 00 – Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives 10
3003.20 00  Containing other antibiotics 10
– x x x
3003.31 00 – – x x x
3003.39 00 – – x x x
3003.40 00 – x x x
3003.90 00 – x x x
38.08 Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparationsor articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicksand candles, and fly-papers 
3808.10 – Insecticides
3808.10 10 – – – x x x
3808.10 20 – – – Intermediate preparations for the manufacture of
agricultural insecticides 10
3808.10 90 – – – x x x
3808.20 00 – x x x
3808.30 00 – x x x
3808.40 00 – x x x
3808.90 00 – x x x
39.26 Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading Nos. 39.01 to 39.14
3926.10 00 – x x x
3926.20 00 – x x x
3926.30 00 – x x x
3926.40 00 – x x x
3926 90 – Other
3926.90 10 – – – x x x
3926.90 20 – – – Synthetic floats for fishing nets 20
3926.90 90 – – – x x x
73.15 Chain and parts thereof, of iron or steel
– x x x
7315.11 00 – -x x x
7315.12 – – Other chain
7315.12 10 – – – Anchor chain
7315.12 90 – – – Other
7315.19 00 – – x x x
7315.20 00 – x x x
7315.81 00 – – x x x
7315.82 00 – – x x x
7315.89 – – Other chain:
7315.89 10 – – – Automotive timing chain 10
7315.89 90 – – – Other 30
7315.90 00 – x x x
73.16 7316.00 00 Anchors, grapnels and parts thereof, of iron or steel 10
73.26 Other articles of iron or steel
– x x x
7326.11 00 – -x x x
7326.19 00 – -x x x
7326.20 00 – x x x
7326.90 – Other
7326.90 10 – – – x x x
7326.90 20 – – – Ships’ rudders of steel 10
7326.90 90 – – – x x x
78.02 7802.00 Lead waste and scrap 5
84.07 Spark ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines.
8407.10 – x x x
– marine propulsion engines:
8407.21 00 – – x x x
8407.29 00 – – Other
– Reciprocating piston engines of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of Chapter 87:
8407.31 – – Of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cc:
8407.31 10 – – – For power tillers FREE
8407.31 90 – – – Other 20
8407.32 – – Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cc but not exceeding 250 cc:
8407.32 10 – – – x x x
8407.32 20 – – – For power tillers FREE
8407.32 90 – – -x x x
8407.33 – – Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 250 cc but notexceeding 1,000 cc:
8407.33 10 – – – x x x
8407.33 20 – – – For power tillers FREE
8407.33 90 – – – x x x
8407.34 – – Of a cylinder capacity exceeding 1,000 cc:
8407.34 10 – – – x x x
8407.34 20 – – – For power tillers of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 1,100 cc FREE
8407.34 90 – – – x x x
8407.90 – Other engines;
8407.90 10 – – – Rated at 25 hp and below FREE
8407.90 90 – – – Other 20
84.08 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines
8408.10 00 – Marine propulsion engines FREE
8408.20 – Engines of kind used for the propulsion of  vehicles of Chapter 87:
8408.20 10 – – – x x x
8408.20 20 – – – For power tillers FREE
8408.20 90 .- – -x x x
8408.90 – Other
8408.90 10 – – Rated at 25 hp and below FREE
8408.90 90 – – Other 20
84.09 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No. 84.07 or 84.08.
8409.10 00 – x x x
– Other
8409.91 00 – – Suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines 10
8409.99 00 – – Other 10
84.12 Other engines and motors
– 8412. 10 00 – x x x
– x x x
8412.21 00 – – x x x
8412.29 00 – – x x x
– Pneumatic power engines and motors:
8412.31 – – Linear acting (cylinders):
8412.31 10 – – -Pneumatic cylinders for closing or opening of doors of buses 10
8412.31 90 – – – Other 20
8412.39 00 – – x x x
8412.80 – x x x
8412.80 10 – – – x x x
8412.80 90 – – – x x x
8412.90 – x x x
8412.90 10 – – – x x x
8412.90 90 – – – x x x
84.13 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device liquid elevators.
– x x x
8413.11 00 – – x x x
8413.19 00 – – x x x
8413.20 00 – x x x
8413.90 00 – Fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engines 10
8413.40 00 – x x x
8413.50 00 – x x x
8413.60 00 – x x x
8413.70 – x x x
8413.70 10 – – x x x
8413.70 90 – – – x x x
– x x x
8413.81 00 – – x x x
8413.82 00 – – x x x
– Parts.
8413.91 – – Of pumps:
8413.91 10 – – – x x x
8413.91 20 – – – x x x
8413.91 30 – – – Of the goods of subheading No. 8413.30 00 10
8413.91 90 – – – x x x
8413.92 00 – – x x x
84.14 Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not filted with filters.
8414.10 00 – x x x
8414.20 00 – x X x
8414.30 00 – x x x
8414.40 00 – x x x
– x x x
8414.51 00 – – x x
8414.59 00 – – x x
8414.60 00 – x x x
8414.80 – Other
8414.80 10 – – – Air compressors for motor vehicles 10
8414.80 90 – – – Other 30
8414.90 – x x x
8414.90 10 – – – x x x
8414.90 90 – – – x x x
84.21 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids of gases 
– x x x
8421.11 00 – – x x x
8421.12 00 – -x x x
8421.19 00 – – x x x
– Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids:
8421.21 00 – – x x x
8421.22 00 – – x x x
8421.23 00 – – Oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines 10
8421.29 00 – – x x x
– Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases:
8421.91 00 – – Intake air filters for internal combustion engines: 10
8421.99 00 – – x x x
– x x x
8421.91 00 – – x x x
8421.99 00 – – x x x
84.24 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines.
8424.10 00 – x x x
8424.20 00 – x x x
– Other appliances;
8424.81 – – Agricultural or horticultural.
8424.81 10 – – – x x x
8424.81 90 – – – Other 10
8424.89 – – x x x
8424.89 10 – – – x x x
8424.89 90 – – – x x x
8424.90 – Parts:
8424.90 10 – – – x x x
8424.90 20 – – – Of the goods of subheading No. 8424.81 90 10
8424.90 90o – – – x x x
84.26 Derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane.
– Overhead travelling cranes, transporter cranes, gantry cranes, bridge cranes, mobile lifting frames and straddle carriers:
8426.11 00 – – x x x
8426.12 – – x x x
8426.12 10 – – – x x x
8426.12 20 – – – x x x
8426.19 00 – – x x x
8426.20 00 – x x x
8426.30 00 – x x x
– x x x
8426.41 – – x x x
8426.41 10 – – – x x x
8426.41 90 – – – x x x
8426.49 00 – – x x x
– x x x
8426.90 00 – – x x x
8426.99 – – Other:
8426.99 10 – – – Ships’ derricks 10
8426.99 90 – – – Other 20
84.33 Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers, grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading No. 84.37.
– x x x
8433.11 00 – – x x x
8433.19 00 – – x x x
8433.20 00 – Other mowers, including cutter bars for tractor mounting 10
8433.30 00 – x x x
8433.40 00 – x x x
– Other harvesting machinery; threshing machinery;
8433.51 00 – – x x x
8433.52 00 – – x x x
8433.53 00 – – x x x
8433.59 00 – – x x x
8433.60 00 – Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs,fruit or other agricultural produce 10
8433.90 – Parts:
8433.90 10 – – – Of the goods of subheading Nos. 8433.20 00, and 8433.60 00 10
8433.90 90 – – – Other 30
84.34 Milking machines and dairy machinery.
8434.10 00 – Milking machines 10
8434.20 00 – Dairy machinery 10
8434.90 00 – Parts 10
84.37 Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than farm-type machinery.
8437.10 – Machinery for cleaning, sorting or grading seed grain or dried leguminous vegetables:
8437.10 10 – – – x x x
8437.10 20 – – – Winnowing and similar cleaning machines 10
8437.10 90 – – – Other 30
8437.80 – Other machinery:
8437.80 10 – – – x x x
8437.80 20 – – – Coffee and corn mills, industrial type 20
8437.80 90 – – – Other 10
8437.90 – Parts:
8437.90 10 – – – Of the goods of subheading Nos. 8437.80 20 20
8437.90 20 – – – Of the goods of subheading Nos. 8437.80 10 30
8437.90 90 – – – Other 10
84.38 Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable fats or oils
8438.10 00 – x x x
8438.20 00 – x x x
8438.30 00 – Machinery for sugar manufacture 10
8438.40 00 – x x x
8438.50 00 – Machinery for the preparation of meat or poultry 10
8438.60 00 – Machinery for the preparation of fruits, nuts or vegetables 10
8438.80 00 – x x x
8438.90 00 – x x x
84.72 Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting or wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines).
8472.10 00 – x x x
8472.20 00 – x x x
8472.30 – x x x
8472.30 10 – – – x x x
8472.30 90 – – – x x x
8472.90 – Other
8472.90 10 – – – x x x
8472.90 20 – – – Automatic banknote dispensers or automatic teller machines
8472.90 90 – – – x x x
84.81 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves.
8481.10 00 – x x x
8481.20 00 – x x x
8481.30 00 – x x x
8481.40 00 – x x x
8481.80 – Other appliances:
8481.80 10 – – – Magnetic valves for closing or opening of doors of buses 10
8481.80 90 – – – Other 20
8481.90 00 – x x x
84.83 Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocks; clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints).
8483.10 – Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks:
8483.10 10 – – – Cam shafts and crank shafts for internal combustion engines 10
8483.10 90 – – – Other 20
8483.20 00 – x x x
8483.30 – Bearing housings, not incorporating ball or roller bearings; plain shaft bearings:
8483.30 10 – – – Plain shaft bearings 10
8483.30 20 – – – Bearing housings, not incorporating ball or roller bearings 20
8483.40 – Gears and gearing, other than toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; ball screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters:
8483.40 10 – – – Marine hydraulic steering gears; marine reverse reduction 10
8483.40 90 – – – Other 20
8483.50 00 – x x x
8483.60 00 – x x x
8483.90 00 – x x x
84.85 Machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts, or other electrical features, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
8485.10 00 – Ships’ propellers and blades therefor 10
8485.90 00 – x x x
85.04 Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers and inductors).
8504.10 00 – x x x
– Liquid dielectric transformers:
8504.21 – – Having a power handling capacity not exceeding 650 kVA:
8504.21 10 – – – Step-voltage regulators 10
8504.21 90 – – – Other 30
8504.22 – – – Having a power handling capacity exceeding 650 kVA but not exceeding 10,000 kVA:
8504.22 10 – – – Step-voltage regulators 10
8504.22 90 – – – Other 30
8504.23 – – Having a power handling capacity exceeding 10,000 kVA
8504.23 10 – – – Not exceeding 15,000 kVA 30
8504.23 90 – – – Other 10
– x x x
8504.31 – – x x x
8504.31 10 – – – x x x
8504.31 90 – – – x x x
8504.32 00 – – x x x
8504.33 00 – – x x x
8504.34 00 – – x x x
8504.40 – x x x
8504.40 10 – – – x x x
8504.40 90 – – – x x x
8504.50 00 – x x x
8504.90 – x x x
8504.90 10 – – – x x x
8504.90 20 – – – x x x
8504.90 90 – – – x x x
85.11 Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparkling plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators( for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines.
8511.10 00 – Sparkling plugs 10
8511.20 00 – Ignition magnetos; magnetos-dynamos; magnetic fly wheels 10
8511.30 00 – Distributors; ignition coils 10
8511.40 00 – Starter motors and dual purpose starter-generations 10
8511.50 00 Other generators 10
8511.80 00 – Other equipment 10
8511.90 00 – Parts 10
85.25 Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; or television cameras.
8525.10 – Transmission apparatus:
8525.10 10 – – – x x x
8525.10 20 – – – Transmission apparatus for navigational use 10
8525.10 90 – – – Other 50
8525.20 – Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus:
8525.20 10 – – – x x x
8525.20 20 – – – For navigational use 10
8525.20 90 – – – Other 50
8525.30 00 – x x x
85026 Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.
8526.10 00 – Radar apparatus 10
– Other
8526.91 00 – – Radio navigational aid apparatus 10
8526.92 – – Radio remote control apparatus:
8526.92 10 – – – x x x
8526.92 90 – – – Other 10
85.32 Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set).
8532.10 00 – x x x
– x x x
8532.21 00 – – x x x
8532.22 00 – – x x x
8532.23 00 – – x x x
8532.24 00 – – x x x
8532.25 00 – – x x x
8532.29 – – Others
8532.29 10 – – – Condensers for motor vehicles 10
8532.29 90 – – – Other 20
8532.30 00 – x x x
8532.90 00 – x x x
85.36 Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts.
8536.10 00 – x x x
8536.20 00 – x x x
8536.30 00 – x x x
– x x x
8536.41 – – x x x
8536.41 10 – – – x x x
8536.41 90 – – – x x x
8536.49 – – x x x
8536.49 10 – – – x x x
8536.49 90 – – – x x x
8536.50 – x x x
8536.50 10 – – – x x x
8536.50 90 – – – x x x
– x x x
8536.61 00 – – x x x
8536.69 – – x x x
8536.69 10 – – – x x x
8536.69 90 – – – x x x
8536.90 – Other apparatus
8536.90 10 – – – x x x
8536.90 20 – – – contact points for motor vehicles 10
8536.90 90 – – – x x x
87.01 Tractors (other than tractors of heading No. 87.09).
8701.10 – Pedestrian controlled tractors:
8701.10 10 – – – Components, parts and/or accessories imported from one or more countries for assembly of power tillers or walking tractors or hand tractors when imported upon prior authorization of the Board of Investments
8701.10 90 – – – x x x
8701.20 00 – x x x
8701.30 00 – x x x
8701.90 00 – x x x
87.02 Public-transport type passenger motor vehicles.
8702.10 – With compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel):
8702.10 10 – – – Completely-knocked-down (CKD) buses with g.v.w. of 6 tonnes to 18 tonne upon prior authorization by the Board of Investments 10
8702.10 20 – – – Buses with g.v.w. of 6 tonnes to 18 tonnes 20
8702.10 30 – – – Other buses 30
8702.10 30 – – – Other 50
8702.90 – x x x
8702.90 10 – – – x x x
8702.90 90 – – – x x x
87.08 Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading Nos. 87.01 to 87.06
8708.10 00 – x x x
– Other parts and accessories of bodies (including cabs)
8708.21 00 – – x x x
8708.29 00 – – x x x
– Brakes and servo-brakes and parts thereof:
8708.31 00 – – Mounted brake linings 10
8708.39 00 – – Other 10
8708.40 00 – Gear boxes 10
8708.50 00 – Drive-axles with differential, whether or not provided with other transmission components 10
8708.60 00 – Non-driving axles and parts thereof 10
8708.70 00 – x x x
8708.80 – x x x
8708.80 10 – – – x x x
8708.80 90 – – – x x x
– Other parts and accessories:
8708.91 00 – – x x x
8708.92 00 – – x x x
8708.93 00 – – Clutches and parts thereof 10
8708.94 – – Steering wheels, steering columns and steering boxes:
8708.94 10 – – – Steering wheels
8708.94 20 – – – Steering column and steering boxes 10
8708.99 – – Other
8708.99 10 – – – Brakes and clutch peals; chassis for AUVs; fuel tanks; wheel rims and discs; arm-rests; sun visors; battery tray / holders 30
8708.99 90 – – – Other 10
87.16 Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof.
8716.10 00 – x x x
8716.20 00 – Self-loading or self-unloading trailers and semi-trailers for agricultural purposes 10
– x x x
8716.31 00 – – x x x
8716.39 00 – – x x x
8716.40 00 – – x x x
8716.80 00 – x x x
8716.90 – x x x
8716.90 10 – – x x x
8716.90 90 – – – x x x
90.14 Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances.
9014.10 00 – x x x
9014.20 – x x x
9014.20 10 – – – x x x
9014.20 90 – – – x x x
9014.80 00 – Other instruments and appliances 10
9014.90 – x x x
9014.90 10 – – – x x x
9014.90 90 – – – x x x

SEC. 2. Upon effectivity of this National Emergency Memorandum Order, the above articles which are entered or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the rates of duty herein prescribed.

SEC. 3. The modification of rates as provided for in Section 1 hereof shall be limited to carrying out the powers as provided for under Section 3(1), 2(a), and (7) of Republic Act No. 6826. The Department of Finance, in coordination with the Department of Transportation and Communications and other concerned Departments, shall ensure that the limitations as provided for in Republic Act No. 6826 are observed.

SEC. 4. This National Emergency Memorandum order shall take effect two (2) days after publication in at least two (2) newspapers of national circulation, considering the urgency thereof, and shall be in full force and effect for the period specified in Section 9 of Republic Act No. 6826.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of January in the year of Lord, Nineteen Hundred And Ninety.

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO

By the President:
(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary

Source: CDAsia

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