[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2439 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2439

     To suspend until December 31, 2001, the duty on certain high-
       performance loudspeakers not mounted in their enclosures.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             September 3 (legislative day, August 31), 1998

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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To suspend until December 31, 2001, the duty on certain high-
       performance loudspeakers not mounted in their enclosures.

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

SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF DUTY ON CERTAIN HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOUDSPEAKERS 
              NOT MOUNTED IN THEIR ENCLOSURES.

    Subchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States is amended by inserting in numerical sequence the 
following new subheading:

      

``    9902.85.xx        Loudspeakers not                                                                        
                         mounted in                                                                             
                         their                                                                                  
                         enclosures                                                                             
                         (provided for                                                                          
                         in subheading                                                                          
                         8518.29.80),                                                                           
                         the foregoing                                                                          
                         which meet a                                                                           
                         performance                                                                            
                         standard of not                                                                        
                         more than 1.5                                                                          
                         dB for the                                                                             
                         average level                                                                          
                         of 3 or more                                                                           
                         octave bands,                                                                          
                         when such                                                                              
                         loudspeakers                                                                           
                         are tested in a                                                                        
                         reverberant                                                                            
                         chamber........  Free             No change        No change        On or before 12/   
                                                                                              31/2001           
                                                                                                              ''

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 applies 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.
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