[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4073 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4073

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide 
         a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2023

   Mr. McGarvey (for himself, Mr. Womack, Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. Barr) 
 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 
         a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Duty Drawback Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. UNIFORM DUTY TREATMENT OF WHISKIES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 22 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States is amended by striking subheading 2208.30 and 
inserting the following, with the article description for subheading 
2208.30.00 having the same degree of indentation as the article 
description for subheading 2208.50.00:


``       2208.30.00       Whiskies...........  Free                 ...................  $2.04/pf liter       ''
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    (b) Instruction to United States International Trade Commission.--
The United States International Trade Commission shall add statistical 
suffixes to subheading 2208.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States, as amended by subsection (a), as follows:


``2208.30.0010......................  Irish or Scotch in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0015........................  Irish or Scotch in containers each holding over 4 liters
2208.30.0020........................  Bourbon in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0025........................  Bourbon in containers each holding over 4 liters
2208.30.0030........................  Rye in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0035........................  Rye in containers each holding over 4 liters
2208.30.0040........................  Other in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0045........................  Other in containers each holding over 4 liters''.
 

    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after the date that is 15 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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