[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 417 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 417

      To exempt semiconductors from the country of origin marking 
               requirements under the Tariff Act of 1930.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 24 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

Mr. Packwood (for himself, Mr. Danforth, and Mr. Baucus) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
      To exempt semiconductors from the country of origin marking 
               requirements under the Tariff Act of 1930.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 304 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1304) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Except as hereinafter provided,'' at the 
        beginning of subsection (a) and inserting ``Except as otherwise 
        provided in this section,'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), and (h) as 
        subsections (g), (h), and (i), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(f) Exemption From Marking for Semiconductors.--Articles provided 
for in headings 8541 and 8542 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States and their containers are exempt from the marking 
requirements of subsection (a).''.

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