[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 530 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 530

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                March 9 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

 Mr. Mitchell (for himself, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Danforth, Mr. Hollings, Mr. 
Bond, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Heflin, Mr. Helms, Mr. Kohl, Mr. 
  Lautenberg, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Simon, Mr. 
Specter, and Mr. Wofford) introduced the following bill; which was read 
             twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify 
 that certain footwear assembled in beneficiary countries is excluded 
                       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 AND LEATHER-RELATED PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--U.S. Note 2 to subchapter II of chapter 98 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (b), by inserting ``footwear, leather-
        related products,'' after ``apparel article,'';
            (2) by striking the flush sentence following subparagraph 
        (ii); and
            (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
        paragraph:
    ``(c) As used in this note--
            ``(i) the term `beneficiary country' means a country listed 
        in general note 3(c)(v)(A); and
            ``(ii) the term `leather-related products' means articles 
        of handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves, and leather 
        wearing apparel described in section 213(h)(1) of the Caribbean 
        Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2703(h)(1)).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, 
on or after October 1, 1992.

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