[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2004 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2004

  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. Chambliss 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 SYNTHETIC STAPLE FIBER NOT CARDED OR COMBED.

    (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 dyed                                                         31/2011.......
                          (polyacrylonitril
                          e staple), not
                          carded, combed,
                          or otherwise
                          processed for
                          spinning,
                          containing by
                          weight a minimum
                          of 92%
                          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 to
                          140 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 goods 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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