[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2112 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2112

        To suspend temporarily the duty on certain filter media.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 11, 2002

 Mr. Grassley 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 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 cloth,  Free      No change       No change       On or before 12/
                           comprising a nonwoven                                             31/2005          ''
                           web of                                                                              .
                           electrostatically-
                           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 HTS subheading
                           5911.40.00)..........

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after the date that is 15 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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