[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4418 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4418

   To suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic staple fibers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 19, 2012

Mr. Bishop of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic staple fibers.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN ACRYLIC STAPLE FIBERS.

    (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     ''.
                          fibers                                                            12/31/2015
                          (polyacrylonitril
                          e staple), not
                          carded, combed,
                          or otherwise
                          processed for
                          spinning, the
                          foregoing
                          containing by
                          weight 92 percent
                          or more of
                          polyacrylonitrile
                          , not more than
                          0.01 percent of
                          zinc and 2
                          percent or more
                          but not over 8
                          percent of water,
                          with a decitex of
                          2.4 to 3.7 (plus
                          or minus 10
                          percent), a fiber
                          shrinkage of from
                          0 to 22 percent
                          (plus or minus 10
                          percent), and a
                          cut fiber length
                          of 89 to 140 mm,
                          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 articles 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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