[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 1012 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1012

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to correct 
                   the tariff treatment of costumes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 14, 1997

  Mr. D'Amato 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 tariff treatment of costumes.

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

SECTION 1. COSTUMES AND PIECES OR COMPONENTS THEREOF.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) The U.S. notes for chapter 61 of the Harmonized Tariff 
        Schedule of the United States are amended by adding at the end 
        the following:
    ``11. Articles covered by this chapter shall include costumes and 
pieces or components thereof.''.
            (2) The U.S. notes for chapter 62 of the Harmonized Tariff 
        Schedule of the United States are amended by adding at the end 
        the following:
    ``10. Articles covered by this chapter shall include costumes and 
pieces or components thereof.''.
            (3) U.S. note 1(e) for chapter 95 of the Harmonized Tariff 
        Schedule of the United States is amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) ``Sports clothing, fancy dress, or costumes and pieces or 
components thereof, of textile, of chapter 61 or 62.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to articles entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
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