Practice question
A statute authorizes presidential tariff adjustments within a ten-to-twenty-percent band and sets conditions within the national development program. An executive order sets thirty percent, invoking the constitutional tariff-delegation clause as an independent source of unlimited power. No other authority supports the rate. Which conclusion follows?
- The rate exceeds the delegation and cannot rest on that clause alone
- The clause removes all statutory ceilings
- Every tariff rate needs a constitutional amendment
- An importer’s consent validates any executive rate
- The prescribed band is merely advisory
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article VI, Section 28(2).
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