[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2079 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2079

To reduce temporarily the duty on acai, uncooked or cooked by steaming 
 or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or 
                        other sweetening matter.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To reduce temporarily the duty on acai, uncooked or cooked by steaming 
 or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or 
                        other sweetening matter.

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

SECTION 1. ACAI, OTHERWISE PREPARED OR PRESERVED, WHETHER OR NOT 
              CONTAINING ADDED SUGAR OR OTHER SWEETENING MATTER OR 
              SPIRIT, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED.

    (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      Other: Acai,        Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                        otherwise                                                          31/2011.......
                        prepared or
                        preserved,
                        whether or not
                        containing added
                        sugar or other
                        sweetening matter
                        or spirit, not
                        elsewhere
                        specified or
                        included
                        (provided for in
                        subheading
                        2008.99.8000)....

    (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to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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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