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<dc:title>117 HR 3501 IH: To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for permanent duty-free treatment on imports of basketballs.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2021-05-25</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">117th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 3501</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20210525">May 25, 2021</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="G000558">Mr. Guthrie</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for permanent duty-free treatment on imports of basketballs.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HD0A9BEA642E54507B0225A3A2CD0C885" style="OLC"><section id="H0FA75996E6C04ED79611F4D1659CF8E9" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Permanent duty-free treatment on imports of basketballs</header><subsection id="HBE46CB2745634512B68ED800CB029FD5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H726A637CBEB94BFFB6DDB8FE6AD2FB35" display-inline="no-display-inline"><table table-type="" table-template-name="Duty Modifcation, 5-column" align-to-level="section" frame="all" colsep="1" rowsep="1" blank-lines-before="1" line-rules="all-gen" rule-weights="4.4.4.4.4.17"><tgroup cols="5" rowsep="1" thead-tbody-ldg-size="7.7.9" grid-typeface="1.1" block-style="1"><colspec colname="column1" coldef="txt-no-ldr-no-spread" min-data-value="40" colwidth="78.75pt"></colspec><colspec colname="column2" coldef="txt-no-ldr-no-spread" min-data-value="60" colwidth="83.25pt"></colspec><colspec colname="column3" coldef="txt" min-data-value="45" colwidth="100.01pt"></colspec><colspec colname="column4" coldef="txt-no-ldr-no-spread" min-data-value="45" colwidth="46.50pt"></colspec><colspec colname="column5" coldef="txt-no-ldr-no-spread" min-data-value="45" colwidth="47.25pt"></colspec><tbody><row><entry align="left" stub-definition="txt-clr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">9506.62.70</entry><entry rowsep="1" leader-modify="force-ldr-bottom" colname="column2">Basketballs</entry><entry rowsep="1" leader-modify="force-ldr-bottom" colname="column3">Free</entry><entry rowsep="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column4"></entry><entry rowsep="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column5">30%</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HFA5729C1E0F24D62916DA2F033FA691B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><paragraph id="H659A9424DC754C0DA8F1B5BC7C229B02"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 95 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by redesignating subheading 9506.62.80 as subheading 9506.62.81.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF42A8CC34122405BBFDFAF6B3256B271"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H03657F6CDE1C4062B1737EE1E1713148"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Note 20(s)(i) to subchapter III of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by striking <quote>9506.62.80</quote> and by inserting <quote>9506.62.70</quote> and <quote>9506.62.81</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H579D3BADFD2F4EA7AE477E88CC6C5700"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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. </text></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

