[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1908 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1908

 To suspend temporarily the duty on certain sports footwear for women.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 26, 2009

  Mr. Roberts 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 sports footwear for women.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN SPORTS FOOTWEAR FOR WOMEN.

    (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:


``      9902.01.00       Tennis shoes,       Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/ ''.
                          basketball shoes,                                                  31/2011.......
                          gym shoes,
                          training shoes
                          and the like,
                          with outer soles
                          of rubber,
                          plastics, leather
                          or composition
                          leather and
                          uppers of leather
                          (other than with
                          uppers of
                          pigskin),
                          covering the
                          ankle, the
                          foregoing for
                          women (provided
                          for in subheading
                          6403.91.90)......

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to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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