[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2545 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2545

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify 
the duty on sanitary towels and tampons, diapers and diaper liners for 
             babies, and similar articles, of any material.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 7, 2012

 Mr. Brown of Ohio introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
                and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify 
the duty on sanitary towels and tampons, diapers and diaper liners for 
             babies, and similar articles, of any material.

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

SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTION RELATING TO DUTY ON SANITARY TOWELS AND 
              TAMPONS, DIAPERS AND DIAPER LINERS FOR BABIES, AND 
              SIMILAR ARTICLES, OF ANY MATERIAL.

    (a) In General.--Subheading 9619.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (relating to sanitary towels and tampons, 
diapers and diaper liners for babies, and similar articles, of any 
material) is amended by striking subheadings 9619.00.05 through 
9619.00.90 and inserting the following new subheadings, with the 
article descriptions for such subheadings having the same degree of 
indentation as the article description for subheading 9616.10.00:


``       9619.00.10       Diapers of cotton,   9.3%                 Free (BH, CA, CL,    90%
                           other than knitted                        IL, JO, KR, MA,
                           or crocheted......                        MX, OM, P, PE, SG)
                                                                     3% (AU)
         9619.00.20       Other..............  Free                 ...................  35%                  ''
                                                                                                               .

    (b) Special Duty Rate Staging.--The amendments made by subsection 
(a) shall not be construed to affect the special duty rate staging with 
respect to articles imported from Australia proclaimed before the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply 
with respect 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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