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Executive Order No. 20 (2017)
—Section 1608 of Republic Act No. 10863, or the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), empowers the President, upon the recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to increase, reduce, or remove existing rates of import duty, including any necessary change in classification;
Section 1.
Rates of Import Duty. —The article specifically listed in Annex A hereof, as classified under Section 161 of the CMTA, shall be subject to the MFN rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article. ℒαwρhi৷
Section 2.
Levy on Articles. —Upon the effectivity of this Order, all articles which are specifically listed in the aforesaid Annex and are entered into, or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption shall be levied the MFN rates of duty as therein prescribed.
Section 3.
Repeal. —All issuances, orders, rules, and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 4.
Separability. —Should any provision of this Order be declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions unaffected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting.
Section 5.
Effectivity. —This Order shall take effect thirty (30) days following its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
DONE, —in the City of Manila, this 27th day of April in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Seventeen.
(SGD.)— RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
By the President:
(SGD.)— SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA Executive Secretary