[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2269 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2269

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify 
 the temporary suspension of duty for certain DVD readers and writers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify 
 the temporary suspension of duty for certain DVD readers and writers.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN DVD READERS AND WRITERS.

    (a) In General.--The article description for subheading 9902.23.36 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended to 
read as follows: ``Multi-format mini-DVD camcorder with photo frame-
grab capability and internal hard drive (specifically, readability in 
DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM and DVD+RW formats), whether or not containing 
other features such as USB 2.0 port, memory card slot (provided for in 
subheading 8525.40.80).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--The amendment made by this section applies 
        to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
        consumption, on or after January 1, 2007.
            (2) Retroactive application.--Notwithstanding section 514 
        of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1504) or any other 
        provision of law, upon proper request being filed with U.S. 
        Customs and Border Protection before the date that is 90 days 
        after the date of the enactment of this section, any entry, or 
        withdrawal from warehouse for consumption of an article 
        described in subheading 9902.23.36 of the Harmonized Tariff 
        Schedule of the United States (as amended by subsection (a)) 
        that was made--
                    (A) after December 31, 2006, and
                    (B) before the date of the enactment of this 
                section,
        shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though the amendment 
        made by subsection (a) applied to such entry or withdrawal.
            (3) Proper requests.--For purposes of paragraph (2), a 
        proper request means a request for liquidation or reliquidation 
        that contains sufficient information to enable the U.S. Customs 
        and Border Protection--
                    (A) to locate the entry; or
                    (B) to reconstruct the entry if it cannot be 
                located.
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