[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1941 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1941

  To suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic synthetic staple 
                                 fiber.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 28, 2009

  Mr. Isakson 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 acrylic synthetic staple 
                                 fiber.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN ACRYLIC STAPLE FIBER.

    (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       Acrylic staple      Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/ ''.
                          fiber undyed                                                       31/2011.......
                          (polyacrylonitril
                          e staple) not
                          carded, combed,
                          or otherwise
                          processed for
                          spinning,
                          containing by
                          weight a minimum
                          of 92 percent
                          polyacrylonitrile
                          , not more than
                          .01 percent zinc
                          and from 2 to 8
                          percent water,
                          imported in the
                          form of staple
                          fiber with a
                          filament decitex
                          of 4.0 decitex to
                          6.7 decitex (plus
                          or minus 10
                          percent) with a
                          fiber shrinkage
                          of 0 to 22
                          percent (plus or
                          minus 10 percent)
                          and a cut fiber
                          length of 89 mm
                          to 140 mm with a
                          target length of
                          115 mm (provided
                          for in subheading
                          5503.30.00)......

    (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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