[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 795 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 795

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to exclude 
  certain footwear assembled in beneficiary countries from duty-free 
                               treatment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 3, 1993

   Mr. Rose (for himself, Mr. Sarpalius, Mrs. Mink, Mr. Hefner, Mr. 
Emerson, Mr. Ravenel, Mr. Darden, Mr. Ford of Michigan, Mr. Gordon, Mr. 
    Rahall, Mr. Pickett, Mr. Frost, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Price of North 
   Carolina, Mr. Clay, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Quillen, Mr. Volkmer, Mr. 
  Bonior, and Mr. Gonzalez) 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 exclude 
  certain footwear assembled in beneficiary countries from duty-free 
                               treatment.

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

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF FOOTWEAR.

    U.S. Note 2 to subchapter II of chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``footwear not accorded duty-free 
        treatment under paragraph (c),'' after ``apparel article,''; 
        and
            (2) by striking out the last sentence and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(c)(i) No article of footwear may be treated as a foreign 
article, or as subject to duty, if--
            ``(A) the requirements of paragraph (b)(i) and (ii) are 
        complied with respect to the article;
            ``(B) the article is produced by an existing footwear 
        manufacturer; and
            ``(C) the article is entered on or after January 1 of any 
        calendar year after 1992 and before the aggregate quantity of 
        footwear produced by that manufacturer and entered during that 
        year equals the annual duty-free footwear amount for that 
        manufacturer.
    ``(ii) For purposes of this paragraph--
            ``(A) the term `annual duty-free footwear amount' for an 
        existing footwear manufacturer means--
                    ``(I) for articles of footwear (other than footwear 
                described in subclause (II)) provided for under any 
                subheading classification, an amount equal to the 
                average monthly quantity of footwear provided for under 
                such classification that was produced during the period 
                January 1, 1992, through October 1, 1992, by all 
                existing manufacturing facilities of such manufacturer 
                for export to the United States, multiplied by 12; and
                    ``(II) for articles of footwear classified under 
                subheadings 6404.11.50, 6404.11.60, 6404.19.40, and 
                6404.19.60 and articles of leather footwear (for women) 
                with synthetic soles classified under the appropriate 
                subheadings of heading 6403, an amount equal to the 
                annual production capacity, as of October 1, 1992, of 
                all existing manufacturing facilities of the 
                manufacturer for such classifications of footwear, plus 
                any increase in the production capacity for such 
                classifications of footwear that will result from any 
                new footwear manufacturing facility construction by the 
                manufacturer in one or more beneficiary countries if 
                such construction was in progress on October 1, 1992.
            ``(B) the term `existing footwear manufacturer' means a 
        person that established at least 1 existing manufacturing 
        facility; and
            ``(C) the term `existing manufacturing facility' means a 
        footwear manufacturing facility that was operating in a 
        beneficiary country on October 1, 1992.
    ``(iii) The United States International Trade Commission shall--
            ``(A) identify each existing footwear manufacturer,
            ``(B) identify, if applicable, any new construction 
        described in (ii)(A)(II) by such manufacturer, and
            ``(C) determine the annual duty-free footwear amount for 
        each applicable footwear subheading classification for each 
        such manufacturer,
        and provide such identification and determination to the 
        Secretary of the Treasury.
    ``(iv) The Secretary of the Treasury shall by regulation specify 
such relevant entry information as may be required for purposes of 
implementing this paragraph.
    ``(d) For purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c), the term `beneficiary 
country' means a country listed in general note 3(c)(v)(A).''.

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