Section 1
Section 1.
The articles specifically listed hereunder as classified under Section 104 of Republic Act Number Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven shall pay the following rates of import duty:
Tariff Heading No.
Description of Articles
Rate of Duty
73.12
Hoop and strip of iron and steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled;
A. Cold-rolled hoop and Strip of Steel
ad val. 40%
B. Other
ad val. 7 —%
73.13
Sheets and plates of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled;
A. xxxxxxxxxxxx
B. Cold-rolled black sheets excluding enameling iron sheets when imported directly by enameling ware manufacturers certified as such by both the National Economic Council and the Tariff Commission
ad val. 40%
C. Other
ad val. 20%
Section 2
Section 2.
Upon the expiration of thirty (30) days from the issuance of this Order, all the above-described articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse in the Philippines for consumption shall be subject to the rates of import duty herein above-prescribed.
Section 3
Section 3.
Any unwarranted increase in the prices of local products benefited by these tariff changes shall constitute ground for the modification of these post-operative tariff rates.
The Board of Investments shall take the proper representations with the Tariff Commission for appropriate action.
Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.
(SGD.)—
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.)—
ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary