[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4628 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4628

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend 
 certain provisions relating to verification of wages and issuance of 
  duty refund certificates to insular producers in the United States 
   Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 22, 1994

 Mr. de Lugo 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 extend 
 certain provisions relating to verification of wages and issuance of 
  duty refund certificates to insular producers in the United States 
   Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATE ISSUANCE 
              PROVISIONS.

    Additional U.S. Note 5(h)(i) to Chapter 91 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States is amended by striking ``and before 
January 1, 1995,'' and inserting ``and before January 1, 2007,''.

SEC. 2. CIVIL PENALTY FOR IMPORTING MERCHANDISE WITH A COUNTERFEIT 
              MARK.

    Section 1526 of title 19, United States Code, is amended by adding 
a subsection (f) to read as follows:
    ``(f) Any person who directs, assists financially or otherwise, or 
is in any way concerned with the importation of merchandise seized 
pursuant to paragraph (e) shall be subject to a civil fine. For the 
first such seizure, the fine shall be equal to the value that the 
merchandise would have had if it were genuine. For the second seizure 
and thereafter, the fine shall be equal to twice the value that the 
merchandise would have had if it were genuine.''.

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