[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1176 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1176

  To clarify the tariff classification of certain plastic flat goods.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 29 (legislative day, June 22), 1993

   Mr. Kohl introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the tariff classification 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.

    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 4202.31.60.
    

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

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL NEW NOTE.

    The Additional United States notes for 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 two or more 
super-imposed 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.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act 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entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 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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