[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8773 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8773

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide 
      for permanent duty-free treatment on imports of basketballs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide 
      for permanent duty-free treatment on imports of basketballs.

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

SECTION 1. PERMANENT DUTY-FREE TREATMENT ON IMPORTS OF BASKETBALLS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 95 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States is amended by inserting in numerical sequence the 
following new subheading, with the article description having the same 
degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 
9506.62.40:


 
 
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``9506.62.70         Basketballs                Free................  ....................  30%''.
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    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Chapter 95 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
        United States, as amended by subsection (a), is further 
        amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subheading 9506.62.80 as 
                subheading 9506.62.81; and
                    (B) in subheading 9506.62.81, as redesignated by 
                subparagraph (A), by striking subheading 9506.62.81.20.
            (2) Subchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff 
        Schedule of the United States is amended by striking headings 
        9902.17.75, 9902.17.76, and 9902.17.77.
    (c) 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to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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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