[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[S. 2426 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2426

    To suspend temporarily the duty on certain children's footwear.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

 Mr. Brownback 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 children's footwear.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN CHILDREN'S FOOTWEAR.

    (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 footwear for  Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                        persons other                                                      31/2011.......
                        than men or
                        women, with outer
                        soles and uppers
                        of rubber or
                        plastic, with
                        open toes or open
                        heels, other than
                        house slippers;
                        footwear of the
                        slip-on type,
                        that is held to
                        the foot without
                        the use of laces
                        or buckles or
                        other fasterners,
                        the foregoing
                        except footwear
                        of subheading
                        6402.99.20 and
                        except footwear
                        having a foxing
                        or foxing-like
                        band wholly or
                        almost wholly of
                        rubber or
                        plastics applied
                        or molded at the
                        sole and
                        overlapping the
                        upper (provided
                        for in subheading
                        6402.99.40)......

    (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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