[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3761 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3761

  To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain customs 
                  entries of nuclear fuel assemblies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 1998

 Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain customs 
                  entries of nuclear fuel assemblies.

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

SECTION 1. NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLIES.

    Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 or any other 
provision of law, upon proper request filed with the Customs Service 
before the 90th day after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
customs entries listed in section 2 shall be liquidated or reliquidated 
as if, at the time such entries were made, the following additional 
U.S. note to chapter 84 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States was in effect:
            ``3. Subheading 8401.30.00 applies only to fuel rods which 
        are collected into bundles to form fuel assemblies. Enriched 
        uranium compound shipped abroad and converted into sintered, 
        enriched uranium dioxide pellets and then inserted into 
        zirconium alloy tubing which is sealed by the means of plugs 
        which are welded into either end are to be classified as 
        follows:
                    ``(a) The uranium pellets are to be classified 
                under subheading 2844.20.00 as uranium oxide.
                    ``(b) The zirconium tubing is to be classified as 
                an article of base metal under subheading 
                8109.90.00.''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION.

    Section 1 shall apply to each of the following entries, and the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall refund the amount by which the duty 
previously posted or paid on such entry exceeds the amount of duty that 
would have been paid on such entry if the provisions of section 1 were 
in effect on the date of such entry:

      

                         Entry Number:                           Entry Date:
                         062-230014-5..........................  January 16, 1996
                         062-230085-5..........................  February 13, 1996.
                                                                        

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