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Executive Order No. 8 (1992)
among the structural impediments that must be removed are import restrictions that have not only hampered the flow of trade between the Philippines and the rest of the world but have also hindered the efficient development of local industries;
Section 1. The articles listed in ANNEXES "A" and "B"— hereof as classified under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, shall pay the rates of import duty, to be applied by stages, in accordance with the schedules indicated opposite each article: Provided, That the rates of duty indicated for 1996 shall continue to be levied, imposed and collected in the succeeding years until otherwise modified.
Section 2. The rates of import duties and the classification of the other articles under Section 104 of the Tariff and Customs Code of 1978, as amended, which are not affected by the provisions of Section 1 hereof, shall remain in force and effect.
Section 3. Upon the effectivity of this Executive Order, the aforementioned articles in Annexes "A" and "B" hereof which are entered or withdrawn from warehouses for use in the Philippines shall be subject to the rates of duty herein prescribed.
Section 4. All laws, orders, issuances, rules, and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 5. This Executive Order shall take effect thirty (30) days following its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.
DONE IN THE CITY OF MANILA, this 24th day of July in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Two.
(Sgd.)— FIDEL V. RAMOS President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)— PETER D. GARRUCHO, JR. Acting Executive Secretary