H. R. 3815
One Hundred Fourth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six
An Act
To make technical corrections and miscellaneous amendments to trade laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Miscellaneous
Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1996’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Payment of duties and fees.
Sec. 3. Other technical and conforming amendments.
Sec. 4. Clarification regarding the application of customs user fees.
Sec. 5. Technical amendment to the Customs and Trade Act of 1990.
Sec. 6. Clarification of fees for certain customs services.
Sec. 7. Special rule for extending time for filing drawback claims.
Sec. 8. Treatment of entries of certain televisions.
Sec. 9. Temporary duty suspension for personal effects of participants in certain
world athletic events.
Sec. 10. Miscellaneous technical correction.
Sec. 11. Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
Sec. 12. Imports of civil aircraft.
Sec. 13. Technical correction to certain chemical description.
Sec. 14. Marking of certain imported articles and containers.
Sec. 15. Tariff treatment of certain silver, gold, and platinum bars.
Sec. 16. Suspension of duty on certain semimanufactured forms of gold.
Sec. 17. Elimination of East-West Trade Statistics Monitoring System.
Sec. 18. Retroactive election to reconcile entries.
Sec. 19. Tariff treatment for certain motor vehicles.
Sec. 20. Technical amendments relating to Public Law 103–465.
Sec. 21. Technical amendments relating to Public Law 103–182.
Sec. 22. Technical amendment regarding judicial review.
Sec. 23. Reliquidation of entries of warp knitting machines.
Sec. 24. Temporary suspension of duty on diclofop-methyl.
Sec. 25. Elimination of duty on 2-amino-3-chlorobenzoic acid, methyl ester.
Sec. 26. Elimination of duty on 3,3′-diaminobenzidine (tetraamino biphenyl).
Sec. 27. Certain unliquidated vessel repair entries.
Sec. 28. Duty on display fireworks.
Sec. 29. Personal allowance duty exemption for merchandise purchased in a duty-
free sales enterprise.
Sec. 30. Temporary duty suspension for certain motorcycles.
Sec. 31. Deferral of duty on certain production equipment.
Sec. 32. Temporary suspension of duty on thidiazuron.
Sec. 33. 2,3,3-trimethyl-indolenine.
Sec. 34. Bis(4-amino-3-methylcyclohexyl)-methane.
Sec. 35. Limitation on designation as beneficiary developing country.
Sec. 36. Temporary duty suspension on certain chemicals used in the formulation
of an HIV protease inhibitor.
Sec. 37. Treatment of certain entries of buffalo leather.
Sec. 38. Fees for certain customs services.
Sec. 39. Injury determinations for certain countervailing duty orders.
Sec. 40. Treatment of difference between collections of estimated antidumping duty
and final assessed duty under antidumping duty order.
Sec. 41. Certain lead fuel test assemblies.
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Sec. 42. Suspension of duty on certain injection molding machines.
Sec. 43. Reliquidation of certain entries of color televisions.
Sec. 44. Articles used to provide repair and maintenance services.
Sec. 45. Yttrium oxide and cerium aluminum terbium used as luminophores.
Sec. 46. Pharmaceutical grade phospholipids.
Sec. 47. Certain structures, parts and components used in the Gemini Telescopes
Project, Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Sec. 48. Articles provided to Steward Observatory.
Sec. 49. Reliquidation of certain frozen concentrated orange juice entries.
Sec. 50. Twine, cordage, ropes, and cables.
Sec. 51. Suspension of duty on certain fatty acid esters.
Sec. 52. Duty suspension on a mobile bison slaughter unit.
Sec. 53. Exemption from tariffs and fees for certain aircraft parts and equipment.
Sec. 54. Reliquidation of certain entries of live swine.
Sec. 55. Reliquidation of certain entries of sewing machines.
Sec. 56. Temporary duty suspension on certain textured rolled glass sheets.
Sec. 57. Temporary suspension of duty on DEMT.
Sec. 58. Investigation on cattle and beef trade.
Sec. 59. Special rule for Generalized System of Preferences.
SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF DUTIES AND FEES.
(a) INTEREST ACCRUAL.—Section 505(c) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1505(c)) is amended in the second sentence by
inserting after ‘‘duties, fees, and interest’’ the following: ‘‘or, in
a case in which a claim is made under section 520(d), from the
date on which such claim is made,’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall apply to claims made pursuant to section 520(d) of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1520(d)) on or after June 7, 1996.
SEC. 3. OTHER TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) EXAMINATION
OF
BOOKS
AND
WITNESSES.—Section
509(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1509(a)(2)) is
amended by striking ‘‘(c)(1)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(1)(A)’’.
(2) REQUIREMENT FOR CERTIFICATE FOR IMPORTATION OF
ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS ABOARD SMALL VESSELS.—Section 7 of the
Act of August 5, 1935 (19 U.S.C. 1707; 49 Stat. 520), is repealed.
(3) MANIFESTS.—Section 431(c)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930
(19 U.S.C. 1431(c)(1)) is amended in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘such manifest’’ and inserting
‘‘a vessel manifest’’.
(4) PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS.—Section 592 of
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1592) is amended—
(A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘lawful duty’’ and
inserting ‘‘lawful duty, tax, or fee’’; and
(B) in subsections (b)(1)(A)(vi), (c)(2)(A)(ii), (c)(3)(A)(ii),
(c)(4)(A)(i), and (c)(4)(B) by striking ‘‘lawful duties’’ each
place it appears and inserting ‘‘lawful duties, taxes, and
fees’’.
(5) DEPRIVATION
OF
LAWFUL
DUTIES, TAXES, OR
FEES.—
Section 592(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1592(d))
is amended by striking ‘‘or fees be restored’’ and inserting
‘‘and fees be restored’’.
(6) RECONCILIATION
TREATED
AS
ENTRY
FOR
RECORD-
KEEPING.—
(A) Section 401(s) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C.
1401(s)) is amended by inserting ‘‘recordkeeping,’’ after
‘‘reliquidation,’’.
(B) Section 508(c)(1) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 1508(c)(1))
is amended by inserting ‘‘, filing of a reconciliation,’’ after
‘‘entry’’.