[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 838 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 838

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to correct 
        the rate of duty on certain agglomerated cork products.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 28 (legislative day, April 19), 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 amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to correct 
        the rate of duty on certain agglomerated cork products.

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

SECTION 1. AGGLOMERATED CORK PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--The article description for subheading 4504.10.10 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended to 
read as follows:
        ``Vulcanized blocks, plates, cylinders, sheets, slabs and other 
        shapes wholly of ground or pulverized cork''.
    (b) Cut or Molded Agglomerated Cork.--Chapter 45 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 4504.90.20:
    

       ``  4504.90.10     Agglomerated cork, not further                    Free (A, CA, E,  22 cents/kg        
                           advanced than cut or molded                       IL)                                
                           into blocks, plates,                                                                 
                           cylinders, sheets, slabs,                                                            
                           rods, sticks, strips and other                                                       
                           shapes........................  5.5 cents/kg                                         
                                                                                                                

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The amendments made by section 1 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.
    (b) Reliquidation.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or any other provision of law, upon a request 
filed with the appropriate customs officer before the date which is 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, any entry of an 
article described in heading 4504 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States (as amended by section 1) that was made--
            (1) after December 31, 1988, and
            (2) before the 15th day after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act,
and with respect to which there would have been a lesser duty if the 
amendments made by section 1 applied to such entry, shall be liquidated 
or reliquidated as though such amendments applied to such entry.

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