[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4216 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4216

    To require that jewelry boxes imported from another country be 
              indelibly marked with the country of origin.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 1996

   Mr. Reed introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require that jewelry boxes imported from another country be 
              indelibly marked with the country of origin.

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

SECTION 1. MARKING OF IMPORTED JEWELRY BOXES.

    (a) Marking Requirement.--By no later than the date that is 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall prescribe and implement regulations that require that 
all jewelry boxes described in subsection (b) that enter, or are 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of 
the United States have the English name of the country of origin 
indelibly marked in a conspicuous place on such jewelry boxes by 
cutting, die-sinking, engraving, stamping, or some other permanent 
method. The exceptions from marking requirements provided in section 
304 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1304) shall not apply to 
jewelry boxes subject to this section.
    (b) Jewelry.--The jewelry boxes referred to in subsection (a) are 
jewelry boxes provided for in headings 4202.92.60, 4202.92.90, and 
4202.99.10 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
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