[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2047 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2047

    To suspend temporarily the duty on horizontal machining center.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

 Mr. Menendez 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 horizontal machining center.

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

SECTION 1. HORIZONTAL MACHINING CENTER.

    (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      Horizontal          Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                        machining center                                                   31/2011.......
                        with true 5 axis
                        simultaneous
                        contouring
                        capability having
                        the following
                        specifications:
                        with fully
                        automated 800 mm
                        square table
                        built into the
                        machine base;
                        with drop-down
                        trunnion receiver
                        with tilting axis
                        center of
                        rotation; capable
                        of handling work
                        loads of up to
                        1,600 kilograms
                        with a precision
                        of within +/-3
                        arc seconds in
                        the tilting and
                        rotary axes for
                        both positioning
                        and machining;
                        having a
                        horizontal-
                        spindle with a Y-
                        axis travel of
                        1,000 mm, an X-
                        axis travel of
                        1,200 mm, and a Z-
                        axis travel of
                        1,050 mm
                        (provided for in
                        subheading
                        8457.10.00)......

    (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 the enactment of this Act.
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