[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1979 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1979

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to correct 
           the rate of duty on certain mixtures of caseinate.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 1993

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to correct 
           the rate of duty on certain mixtures of caseinate.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN MIXTURES OF CASEINATE.

    Chapter 19 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(19 U.S.C. 3007) 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 
1901.90.25:

      

       ``  1901.90.28   Other (including dried                   0.44 cents/kg  Free (A*, CA,  12.1 cents/kg    
                         mixtures containing less                                E, IL, J)                    ''
                         than 31 percent by weight of                                                          .
                         butterfat and consisting of                                                            
                         not less than 17.5 percent                                                             
                         by weight each of sodium                                                               
                         caseinate, butterfat, whey                                                             
                         solids containing over 5.5                                                             
                         percent by weight of                                                                   
                         butterfat, and dried whole                                                             
                         milk, but not containing                                                               
                         dried milk, dried whey, or                                                             
                         dried buttermilk any of                                                                
                         which contains 5.5 percent                                                             
                         or less by weight of                                                                   
                         butterfat)..................  kg                                                       

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
amendment made by section 1 shall apply with respect to articles 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 
30th day after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Reliquidation.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or any other provision of law, upon proper 
request filed with the appropriate customs officer before the date 
which is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, any 
entry of an article described in subheading 1901.90.28 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States--
            (1) which was made after December 31, 1988, and before the 
        date which is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, and
            (2) with respect to which there would have been a lesser 
        duty if the amendment made by section 1 applied to such entry,
shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry occurred on 
the date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and the Secretary of the Treasury shall make the appropriate refund, 
with interest, of the duty paid with respect to such entry.

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