[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2938 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2938

  To suspend temporarily the rate of duty on certain licorice extract 
                              derivatives.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2012

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To suspend temporarily the rate of duty on certain licorice extract 
                              derivatives.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN LICORICE EXTRACT DERIVATIVES.

    (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        Licorice extract    Free            No change      No change      On or before     ''.
                          derivatives                                                       12/31/2015
                          including those
                          described as
                          Glycyrrhizic and
                          Glycyrrhetinic
                          Acids and their
                          salts and esters
                          (provided for in
                          subheading
                          2938.90.00)......

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to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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