[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1746 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1746

   To correct the marking requirements for American-made hand tools.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 1996

   Mr. Gramm introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To correct the marking requirements for American-made hand tools.

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

SECTION 1. MARKING OF CERTAIN AMERICAN-MADE HAND TOOLS.

    Section 304 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1304) is amended 
by redesignating subsections (f), (g), (h) and (i) as subsections (g), 
(h), (i) and (j), respectively, and inserting after subsection (e) the 
following new subsection:
    ``(f) Marking of American-Made Metal Forgings.--The marking 
requirements of subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to--
            ``(1) metal forgings that--
                    ``(A) are imported for processing into finished 
                hand tools in the United States, and
                    ``(B) have not been improved in condition beyond 
                rough burring, trimming, grinding, turning, hammering, 
                chiseling, or filing, and
            ``(2) hand tools made from metal forgings described in 
        paragraph (1).''.
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