[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5559 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5559

      To reduce temporarily the rate of duty on certain footwear.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2012

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

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                                 A BILL


 
      To reduce temporarily the rate of duty on certain footwear.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN 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        Sports footwear,    0.2%            No change      No change      On or before     ''.
                          tennis shoes,                                                     12/31/2015
                          basketball shoes,
                          gym shoes,
                          training shoes
                          and the like with
                          outer soles of
                          rubber or
                          plastics and
                          uppers of textile
                          materials, having
                          uppers of which
                          over 50 percent
                          of the external
                          surface area
                          (including any
                          leather
                          accessories or
                          reinforcements)
                          is leather, the
                          foregoing for men
                          (provided for in
                          subheading
                          6404.11.20)......

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to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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