[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4117 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4117

        To suspend temporarily the duty on certain filter media.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2002

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

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                                 A BILL


 
        To suspend temporarily the duty on certain filter media.

    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 FILTER MEDIA.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by inserting in 
numerical sequence the following new heading:

      

``    9902.59.00    Nonwoven filter   Free              No change         No change         On or before 12/
                     cloth,                                                                  31/2005          ''
                     comprising a                                                                              .
                     nonwoven web of
                     electrostatical
                     ly-charged
                     split-film
                     polypropylene
                     fibers weighing
                     20-70 grams per
                     square meter,
                     inclusive,
                     needle-tacked
                     to an open
                     polyethylene
                     scrim support
                     having no more
                     than 12 threads
                     per cm
                     (provided for
                     in subheading
                     5911.40.00)....

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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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