[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1336 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1336

To increase the fee for the enforcement of the Tea Importation Act, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 30 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To increase the fee for the enforcement of the Tea Importation Act, 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. FEE INCREASE.

    The Tea Importation Act (21 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by striking out sections 11 and 12,
            (2) by inserting the fourth undesignated paragraph under 
        the center heading ``food and drug administration'' of title II 
        of the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1942 (21 
        U.S.C. 46a) as a new section 11 of the Tea Importation Act, and
            (3) by amending such new section 11 to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 11. No tea or merchandise described as tea shall be examined 
for importation into the United States, or released by the Customs 
Services, under the Tea Importation Act unless the importer or 
consignee of such tea or merchandise has paid, before the examination, 
a fee in an amount equal to--
            ``(1) 10 cents for each hundred weight or fraction thereof 
        of the tea or merchandise; or
            ``(2) the approximate cost of the examination, whichever 
        amount is less. Such fee shall be deposited into the Treasury 
        of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.''.

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