[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1879 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1879

  To clarify the tariff classification of certain fiberboard core and 
          laminate boards and panels, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 26, 2009

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the tariff classification of certain fiberboard core and 
          laminate boards and panels, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. MEDIUM DENSITY FIBERBOARD.

    (a) Finding.--Congress finds that, pursuant to Presidential 
Proclamation 8097, dated December 27, 2006 (72 Fed. Reg. 453), chapter 
44 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States was amended, 
effective February 3, 2007, to include laminate boards bonded in whole 
or in part, or impregnated, with synthetic resins as medium density 
fiberboard in the article descriptions for subheadings 4411.12.20, 
4411.13.20, and 4411.14.20.
    (b) Retroactive Application to Certain Entries.--Notwithstanding 
section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or any other 
provision of law, upon proper request filed with U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection before the date that is 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, any entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for 
consumption, of any goods described in subheading 4411.12.20, 
4411.13.20, or 4411.14.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment 
of this Act) that was made--
            (1) on or after January 1, 1994, and
            (2) on or before March 1, 2001,
shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though the amendment described 
in subsection (a) applied to the entry or withdrawal.
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