[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4985 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4985

To suspend temporarily the duty on knit garments of stretch fabric with 
textile or polymer-based electrodes knit into or attached to the fabric 
   and that incorporate connectors designed to secure an electronic 
     transmitter that transmits physiological information from the 
                  electrodes to a compatible monitor.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2012

Mr. Blumenauer 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 knit garments of stretch fabric with 
textile or polymer-based electrodes knit into or attached to the fabric 
   and that incorporate connectors designed to secure an electronic 
     transmitter that transmits physiological information from the 
                  electrodes to a compatible monitor.

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

SECTION 1. KNIT GARMENTS OF STRETCH FABRIC WITH TEXTILE OR POLYMER-
              BASED ELECTRODES KNIT INTO OR ATTACHED TO THE FABRIC AND 
              THAT INCORPORATE CONNECTORS DESIGNED TO SECURE AN 
              ELECTRONIC TRANSMITTER THAT TRANSMITS PHYSIOLOGICAL 
              INFORMATION FROM THE ELECTRODES TO A COMPATIBLE MONITOR.

    (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        Knit garments of    Free            No change      No change      On or before     ''.
                          stretch fabric                                                    12/31/2015
                          with textile or
                          polymerbased
                          electrodes knit
                          into or attached
                          to the fabric and
                          that incorporate
                          connectors
                          designed to
                          secure an
                          electronic
                          transmitter that
                          transmits
                          physiological
                          information from
                          the electrodes to
                          a compatible
                          monitor (provided
                          for in subheading
                          6110.30.30)......

    (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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