[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1473 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1473

 To correct the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States as it 
          applies to electric toothbrushes and parts thereof.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 1993

Ms. Slaughter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To correct the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States as it 
          applies to electric toothbrushes and parts thereof.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSHES AND PARTS THEREOF.

    Chapter 85 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
is amended by striking subheading 8509.80.00 and inserting in numerical 
sequence the following new superior text and subheadings, with such new 
superior text having the same degree of indentation as the article 
description in subheading 8507.90:

       ``  8509.80       Other appliances:                                                                      
           8509.80.10      Electric toothbrushes...................  0.2 cents    Free           2 cents        
                                                                      each +       (A,E,IL,CA)    each + 50%    
                                                                      3.4%                                      
           8509.80.20      Other...................................  4.2%         Free (A,E,IL)  40%            
                                                                                   2.5% (CA)                  ''

SEC. 2. CERTAIN PARTS OF ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSHES.

    Chapter 85 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
is further amended by inserting in numerical sequence the following new 
subheading with the article description having the same degree of 
indentation as the article description in subheading 8507.90.40:

  

             ``           8509.90.10       Parts of electric toothbrushes.........................  0.2 cents    Free           2 cents                 
                                                                                                     each +       (A,E,IL,CA)    each + 50%      ''.    
                                                                                                     3.4%                                               

SEC. 3. STAGING OF RATES.

    Any staged rate reduction of a rate of duty set forth in subheading 
9603.21.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States that 
was proclaimed by the President before the date of enactment of this 
Act and that takes effect after such date of enactment shall also apply 
to the corresponding rates of duty set forth in subheadings 8509.80.10 
and 8509.90.10 (as added by section 1 and section 2).

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The amendments made by section 1 and section 2 
shall apply with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 
for consumption, after the 15th day after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
    (b) Reliquidation.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930 or any other provision of law, upon a request filed with the 
appropriate customs officer before the 90th day after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, any entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for 
consumption, of an article described in subheading 8509.80.10 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (as added by section 1) 
or subheading 8509.90.10 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (as added by section 2) that was made--
            (1) after December 31, 1988; and
            (2) on or before the 15th day after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act;
shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry occurred on 
the date after such 15th day.

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