[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2098 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2098

  To suspend temporarily the duty on artichokes that are prepared or 
               preserved without vinegar or acetic acid.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 11, 2002

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To suspend temporarily the duty on artichokes that are prepared or 
               preserved without vinegar or acetic acid.

    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 ARTICHOKES THAT ARE PREPARED OR 
              PRESERVED WITHOUT VINEGAR OR ACETIC ACID.

    (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:
      

``      9902.20.02        Artichokes, prepared    Free      No change       No change       On or before 12/
                           or preserved without                                              31/2004          ''
                           vinegar or acetic                                                                   .
                           acid, and not frozen
                           (provided for in
                           subheading
                           2005.90.80)..........

    (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to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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 enactment of this Act.
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