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Of the total 8,990 AHTN lines in 2010, sugar and rice were given the highest tariff rates at 65% and 50%, respectively.  A total of 150 sensitive agricultural products were subject to in-quota rates at 30% to 50% and out-quota rates at 35% to 65%    (i.e., rice, sugar, coffee and coffee extracts, potatoes, certain live animals and animal products, certain meat and edible meat offal). Rates of duty at 20% to 30% were generally levied on automobiles and parts, chemical wastes, made-up textile articles, high value crops, in-quota agricultural products and other strategic merchandise; 5% to 15% rates of duty were applied to locally manufactured intermediate goods; and 3% and below rates of duty were levied on products committed for tariff elimination under the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA)/United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization Florence Agreement, crude oil, petroleum products and asphalt, inputs to manufactured goods and those products that are not locally produced. 

  

Frequency Distribution of Tariff Rates:  2006 – 2010

 

 

Tariff

Level (%)

No. of Tariff Lines

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010*

0

481

483

   344

   348

440

1

2,428

2,581

2,129

2,140

2,141

3

2,732

2,690

2,220

2,216

2,184

5

740

719

   604

   602

596

7

1,050

1,045

   889

   888

839

10

1,375

1,352

1,078

1,107

1,105

15

1,440

1,489

1,040

1,071

1,071

20

307

353

   171

   193

193

25

4

4

 4

       4

4

30

569

591

  217

   242

242

35

28

28

   23

     23

23

40

120

120

   125

   125

125

45

4

4

       5

       5

5

50

27

27

    18

    18

18

65

4

4

4

4

4

TOTAL

11,309

11,490

8,871

8,986

8,990

                                                                              */ - As of E.O.s 885 issued on 03 June 2010

                                                                                                                                                 890 issued on 10 June 2010

                                                                                                                                                 896 issued on 30 June 2010

                                                                                                                                                 898 issued on 29 June 2010

 

In 2010, 60% of total tariff lines have applied rates between 0% and 5%. Tariff lines dutiable at 7% to 15% comprise 34% and  about 7% have tariffs of 20% and above. 

 

 Table 1.  Average Nominal Tariffs, 2006-2010 (in percent)

Year

Agriculture

Mining

Manufacturing

Overall

2006

11.85

2.47

7.26

7.77

2007

11.82

2.47

7.32

7.82

2008

11.95

2.47

6.08

6.95

2009

11.94

2.28

6.53

7.34

2010

11.94

2.28

6.18

7.02

 

The average applied MFN tariff in 2010 declined by 4% from the 2009 level (see Table 1).  This is the result of  the reduction in the MFN rates of certain products in the manufacturing sector, i.e., EO 885 (issued on 3 June 2010) reduced the rates of duty on educational, technical, scientific and historical or cultural books from 5% and 10% to zero;  EO 890 (issued on 10 June 2010) reduced the rates of duty on  crude oil,  refined petroleum products and asphalt from 3% to zero; EO 896 (issued on 18 June 2010) reduced the rates of duty on mixed alkylbenzene and alkylnapthalene from 3% to 1% and polyamide-6 resin from 10% to 1%;  and EO 898 (issued on 22 June 2010) reduced the rates of duty on HRC/CRC products from 7% to zero.