An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 so as to modify the duty on the importation of wood dowels, and for other purposes
PL 83-595 (H.R.2763), enacted 08/16/1954

68.STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 595-AUG. 16, 1954 
731 
SEC, 2. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 4 of the Act entitled 
"An Act to provide for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings 
of buildings situated in alleys in the District of Columbia, and for the 
replatting and development of squares containing inhabited alleys, in 
the interest of public health, comfort, morals, safety, and welfare, and 
for other purposes", approved June 12,1934 (48 Stat. 932), as amended 
(sec, 5-106, D. C, Code, 1951 edition), are hereby repealed. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect sixty days after approval or July 1, 
1955, whichever is earlier. 
Approved August 16, 1954. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 595 
CHAPTER 740 
AN ACT 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930, so as to modify the duty on the importation 
of wood dowels, and for other purposes. 
August 16, 1954 
[H, R. 2763] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress osseTribled^ That paragraph 401 
of the Tariff Act of 1930 (U. S. C , 1946 edition, title 19, sec. 1001, par. 
401) is amended by changing the comma after "$1 per thousand feet, 
board measure" to a semicolon and inserting thereafter the words 
"dowels, if of fir, spruce, pine, hemlock, or larch, 25 cents per thousand 
feet board measure* 
SEC, 2. Paragraph 1803 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (U. S. C, 1946 
edition, title 19, sec, 1201, par. 1803) is amended by inserting "dowels;" 
in subparagraph (1) between "grooved;" and "all the foregoing". 
SEC. 3. Section 3424 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended 
(U. S. C, 1946 edition, Supp. V, title 26, sec. 3424), is further 
amended by inserting after "board measure;" the following language 
"dowels made of fir, spruce, pine, hemlock, larch, or cedar (except 
cedar commercially known as Spanish cedar), 75 cents per thousand 
feet, board measure; dowels made of Japanese maple, Japanese white 
oak, teak, box, ebony, lancewood, or lignum vitae, $3 per thousand 
feet, board measure; dowels made of other wood, $1.50 per thousand 
feet, board measure;". 
SEC. 4. These amendments shall be effective as to dowels entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the day 
following the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply also to 
any dowels entered or withdrawn before that day with respect to 
which the liquidation of the entry or withdrawal has not become final 
by reason of section 514, Tariff' Act of 1930, 
SEC, 5, Paragraph 1615 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 is amended 
by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the 
following: "and articles, previously imported, with respect to which 
the duty was paid upon such previous importation, if (1) reimported, 
without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by 
any process of manufacture or other means, after having been exported 
under lease to a foreign manufacturer, and (2) reimported by or for 
the account of the person who imported them into, and exported them 
from, the United States", 
SEC, 6, The amendment made by this Act shall be effective as to 
articles entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved August 16, 1954. 
Wood dowels. 
Import duty. 
46 Stat. 629. 
46 Stat, 683. 
53 Stat. 415. 
Effectivity. 
46 Stat. 734. 
19 u s e 1514. 
D u t y - f r e e re-
imports, 
52 Stat. 1092. 
19USC1201 par. 
1615. 
Effective date.