[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1748 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1748

    Relating to the tariff treatment of certain plastic flat goods.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 1993

Mr. Sensenbrenner introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    Relating to the tariff treatment of certain plastic flat goods.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN PLASTIC FLAT GOODS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 42 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States is 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 
4202.21.90:

      

       ``  4202.32.05        With outer surface area of not less                  Free (IL,CA)   35%            
                              than 20 percent leather..............  8%            7.4% (E,J)                 ''

    (b) Definition.--The Additional U.S. Notes to chapter 42 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States are amended by adding 
at the end the following new note:
    ``3. For purposes of subheading 4202.32.10, the term `reinforced or 
laminated plastics' means--
            ``(a) rigid, infusible, insoluble plastics formed by the 
        application of heat and high pressure on 2 or more superimposed 
        layers of fibrous sheet material which has been impregnated or 
        coated with plastics, or
            ``(b) rigid plastics comprised of imbedded fibrous 
        reinforcing material (such as paper, fabric, asbestos, and 
        fibrous glass) impregnated, coated or combined with plastics 
        usually by the application of heat or heat and low pressure.''.
    (c) Staged Rate Reductions.--Any staged rate reduction of a special 
rate of duty set forth in subheading 4202.31.60 that was proclaimed by 
the President before the date of the enactment of this Act and that 
takes effect on or after the date of the enactment of this Act shall 
apply to the corresponding special rate of duty in subheading 
4202.32.05 (as added by subsection (a)).

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall apply with respect to goods 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 
15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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