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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4098 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4098

  To suspend through September 30, 1995, the duty on certain textile 
                        manufacturing machinery.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 1994

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

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                                 A BILL

 
  To suspend through September 30, 1995, the duty on certain textile 
                        manufacturing machinery.

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

SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF DUTY ON CERTAIN TEXTILE-MANUFACTURING 
              MACHINERY.

    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:

      

``  9902.84.53  Used machinery for the                     No change        No change        On or before       
                 manufacture of nonwoven                                                     9/30/95          ''
                 textiles by                                                                                  . 
                 hydroentanglement,                                                                             
                 valued at not more than                                                                        
                 $800,000 each (provided                                                                        
                 for in subheading                                                                              
                 8449.00.50)............  Free                                                                  

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The amendment made by section 1 shall apply with 
respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, 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.
    (b) Retroactive Provision.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 or any other provision of law, upon proper request 
filed with the Customs Service within 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, any entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for 
consumption, of goods described in heading 9902.84.53 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (as added by section 1)--
            (1) which was made after October 15, 1993, and before the 
        date that is 15 days after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, and
            (2) with respect to which there would have been no duty if 
        the amendment made by section 1 applied to such entry or 
        withdrawal,
shall be liquidated or reliquidated as if such amendment applied to 
such entry or withdrawal.

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