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Executive Order No. 21 (2017)
—on 13 December 1996, fourteen economies signed in Singapore a Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology (IT) Products providing for the elimination/binding of Most-Favored nation (MFN) tariffs on certain IT products beginning 01 July 1997 and ending on 01 January 2000 with extended staging of tariff reductions up to the year 2005 for developing countries;
Section 1.
Rates of Import Duty. —The articles specifically listed in Annex A hereof, as classified in compliance with Section 1611 of the CMTA, shall be subject to the MFN rates of import duty in accordance with the schedule indicated opposite each article. The rates of import duty on tariff headings and subheadings which are not enumerated, and those which are listed but represented by "XXX', shall remain in force and effect.
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effectivity of this Order, all articles which are specifically listed in the aforesaid Annex and are entered into, or withdrawn from warehouses in the Philippines for consumption, shall be levied the MFN rates of duty as therein prescribed.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rules, and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. ℒαwρhi৷
Section 4.
Separability. —Should any provisions 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 imediately after 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