[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5038 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5038

  To suspend temporarily the duty on chocolate confectionery products 
 filled with caramel or sugar-based paste imported in bulk quantities 
       but ready for consumption in their condition as imported.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2012

   Mr. Dent 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 chocolate confectionery products 
 filled with caramel or sugar-based paste imported in bulk quantities 
       but ready for consumption in their condition as imported.

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

SECTION 1. CHOCOLATE CONFECTIONERY PRODUCTS FILLED WITH CARAMEL OR 
              SUGAR-BASED PASTE IMPORTED IN BULK QUANTITIES BUT READY 
              FOR CONSUMPTION IN THEIR CONDITION AS IMPORTED.

    (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        Chocolate           Free            No change      No change      On or before     ''.
                          confectionery                                                     12/31/2015
                          products filled
                          with caramel or
                          sugar-based paste
                          imported in bulk
                          quantities but
                          ready for
                          consumption in
                          their condition
                          as imported
                          (provided for in
                          subheading
                          1806.90.59)......

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to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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