An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 and certain related laws to provide for the restatement of the tariff classification provisions, and for other purposes
PL 87-456 (H.R.10607), enacted 05/24/1962

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PUa.IC LAW 87-454-MAY 21, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
May 21, 1962 
[S. 1595] 
Public Law 87-454 
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AN ACT 
To amend the Natural Gas Act to give the Federal Power Commission authority 
to suspend changes in rate schedules covering sales for resale for industrial 
use only. 
Federal P o w e r 
Commission. 
Aut h o r i t y, ex-
tension* 
52 Stat. 823. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That (a) the first 
sentence of subsection (e) of section 4 of the Natural Gas Act, as 
amended (15 U.S.C. 7l7c(e)), is amended by changing the words "or 
State commission" to read "State commission, or gas distributing 
company". 
(b) Such subsection ^e) is further amended by striking out ": Pro-
vided, That the Commission shall not have authority to suspend the 
rate, charge, classification, or service for the sale of natural gas for 
resale for industrial use only". 
Approved May 21, 1962. 
May 21, 1962 
[H. R. 9778] 
Public Law 87-455 
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AN ACT 
To provide for the free entry of certain steel and steel products donated for an 
addition to the Chippewa County War Memorial Hospital, Sault Sainte Marie, 
Michigan, and to provide for the free entry of records, diagrams, and other 
data with regard to business, engineering, or exploration operations conducted 
outside the United States. 
Duty-free entry. 
Certain steel and 
steel products. 
R e c o r d s , 
grams, etc. 
46 Stat. 672, 
dia-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty any 
steel and any steel products donated by the Algoma Steel Corporation 
Limited, Sault Sainte Marie, Canada, and imported for use in the con-
struction of an addition to the Chippewa County War Memorial 
Hospital, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. 
SEC. 2. Section 201 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
1201), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
paragraph: 
"PAR. 1827. Records, diagrams, and other data with regard to any 
business, engineering, or exploration operation conducted outside the 
United States, whether on paper, cards, photographs, blueprints, 
tapes, or other media." 
Approved May 21, 1962. 
May 24, 1962 
[H. R. 10607] 
Public Law 87-456 
AN ACT 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 and certain related laws to provide for the 
restatement of the tariff classification provisions, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted 
hy the Senate 
and House 
of Representatives 
of 
the 
Tariff ciassifi- United 
States 
of America 
in Congress 
assemhled, 
T h a t this Act may 
cation Act of 1962. bc citcd as the "Tariff Classification Act of 1962". 
TITLE I—ADOPTION OF REVISED TARIFF SCHEDULES 
SEC 101. (a) The Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, is amended by 
46Stat. 590,672. Striking out titles I and II (19 U.S.C. 1001 and 1201) and, subject 
to subsection (b) of this section and to sections 102 and 103 of this Act, 
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by substituting in lieu thereof a new title I entitled "Title I—Tariff 
Schedules of the United States". 
(b) Such new title I (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the 
"Tariff Schedules of the United States") shall consist of— 
(1) the general headnotes and rules of interpretation; 
(2) schedules 1 to 8, inclusive; and 
(3) the appendix to the tariff schedules; 
all as set forth in the report of the United States Tariff Commission 
(hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "Commission") entitled 
"Tariff Classification Study, Proposed Revised Tariff Schedules of 
the United States", dated November 15,1960, as changed by the "First 
Supplemental Report" (January, 1962); and 
(4) subject to subsection (c), such changes in the provisions 
identified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection as 
the Commission decides— 
(A) are necessary to reflect changes in tariff treatment 
made by statute or under authority of law, arising either 
before the date of the enactment of this Act or on or after 
such date of enactment and before the date on which the 
Tariff Schedules of the United States is published pursuant 
to subsection (d), or 
(B) are otherwise necessary. 
In its determinations under this paragraph, the Commission shall 
apply the standards it applied in its report of November 15,1960, 
referred to above. 
(c) (1) The Commission shall include the changes provided for in 
subsection (b) (4), together with the reasons therefor, in one or more 
supplemental reports which shall be promptly published and sub-
mitted to the President and the Congress. The delivery to the Senate 
and to the House of Representatives shall be made on the same day. 
In its supplemental reports the Commission shall include written 
views submitted to the Commission, and testimony before the Com-
mission, with respect to provisions of the proposed Tariff Schedules of 
the United States, together with the comments of the Commission on 
such views and testimony. 
(2) (A) No change submitted pursuant to the authority contained 
in subsection (b) (4) (B) shall become effective unless, following the 
date on which the supplemental report containing such change was 
submitted to the Congress and before the date on which the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States is published pursuant to subsection 
(d), a period of 60 calendar days of continuous session of the Con-
gress has elapsed. 
(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A) — 
(i) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by 
an adjournment of the Congress sine die.; but 
(ii) in the computation of the 60-day period there shall be ex-
cluded the days on which either House is not in session because of 
an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain. 
(3) No changes included by the Commission in any supplemental 
report submitted after the date of the enactment of this Act shall be-
come effective unless included in the Tariff Schedules of the United 
States as published pursuant to subsection (d). 
(d) At the earliest practicable date before the date of the proclama-
tion of the President provided for by section 102, the President shall 
cause the Tariff Schedules of the United States to be published. 
SEC. 102. At the earliest practicable date, the President shall take 
I such action as he deems necessary to bring the United States schedules proclamation, 
' annexed to foreign trade agreements into conformity with the Tariff 
Supplemental re-
p o r t s to P r e s i -
dent and Congresa. 
P r e s i d e n t i al 
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Schedules of the United States and, after such action is completed, the 
President shall proclaim— 
(1) the rates of duty in rate column numbered 1 of schedules 1 
to 7, inclusive, and the other provisions of the Tariff Schedules 
of the United States, which are required or appropriate to carry 
out the foreign trade agreements to which the United States is 
a contracting party; 
(2) the temporary modifications set forth in part 2 of the 
appendix to the tariff schedules (that is, those modifications pro-
claimed pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of the Trade 
65 Stat. 74. 
Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1364), 
and of other trade-agreements legislation); 
(3) the additional import restrictions set forth in part 3 of the 
appendix to the tariff schedules (that is, those restrictions-pro-
claimed pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment 
62 Stat. 1248. 
-^^^5 ^^ amended (7 U.S.C. 624)); and 
(4) the nations or areas and countries set forth in general head-
note 3(d) of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (relating 
to the treatment of products of certain Communist-dominated 
nations or areas and countries discriminating against American 
commerce). 
SEC. 103. The provisions of the Tariff Schedules of the United 
States as made effective on the date provided by section 501 shall have 
the status of statutory provisions duly enacted by the Congress, except 
for— 
(1) the rates of duty in rate column numbered 1 of the tariff 
schedules proclaimed pursuant to paragraph (1) of section 102 
which are lower than the rates of duty in rate column numbered 2 
of such schedules for the corresponding items; and 
(2) the provisions proclaimed by the President pursuant to 
paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of section 102. 
SEC. 104. During the period between the date of the enactment of 
this Act and the effective date of the Tariff Schedules of the United 
States— 
(1) all public notices which refer to articles in terms of their 
tariff descriptions and which are issued in connection with investi-
gations by the Commission or other agency, and all findings or 
recommendations made during such period by any such agency 
with respect thereto (including findings or recommendations in 
connection with investigations instituted before the date of the 
enactment of this Act), shall make reference to the prospectively 
applicable provisions of such schedules, as determined by the 
Commission, as well as to the existing provisions; and 
(2) the Commission shall furnish to the President, upon re-
quest, any of its outstanding findings restated so as to conform 
to the Tariff Schedules of the United States to the fullest extent 
practicable consistent with the purposes of title I of the Customs 
68 Stat. 1136. 
Simplification Act of 1954. 
19 use 133 2 Any such findings or recommendations with respect to the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States shall be treated as formal findings or 
recommendations of the agency involved. 
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATIVE AND SAVING PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. The Commission is authorized to issue, at appropriate 
intervals, and to keep up to date, a publication containing current tariff 
schedules and related matters, including such matter as may be needed 
for reporting statistics. 
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SEC. 202. (a) This Act shall not divest the courts of their jurisdiction 
over a protest filed under section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
46 stat. 734. 
amended (19 U.S.C. 1514), or by an American manufacturer, producer, 
or wholesaler under section 516(b) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 1516(b)), 
52 stat. 1084. 
against a liquidation covering articles entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption before the effective date of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States. 
(b) If such a protest filed imder section 516 (b) is sustained in whole 
or in part by a decision of the United States Customs Court or of the 
United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the liquidations 
covering articles of the character covered by such court decision, which 
are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the 
date of publication of such court decision, shall be suspended until final 
disposition is made in accordance with subsection (c). 
(c) If such a protest filed under section 516(b) is not sustained in 
whole or in part by a final judicial decision, the entries made before 
the effective date of the Tariff Schedules of the United States shall 
be liquidated in accordance with such final decision, and all other 
entries shall be liquidated subject to such schedules. If such a protest 
is sustained in whole or in part by a final judicial decision, the entries 
made before the effective date of the Tariff Schedules of the United 
States shall be liquidated in accordance with such final decision, and 
the Commission shall report to the President such changes in the 
Report to presi-
Tariff Schedules of the United States as the Commission decides are *
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necessary to conform them to the fullest practicable extent to the sub-
stance 01 such final decision. 
The President shall, as soon as prac-
ticable, proclaim such changes. The changes shall be effective with 
respect to entries, the liquidation of which was suspended in accord-
ance with subsection (b), covering articles entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the effective date of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States. 
SEC. 203. For purj)oses of applying section 350 of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended, with respect to the Tariff Schedules of the United 
48 stat. 943. 
States— 
19 use 1351. 
(1) The rates of duty in rate column numbered 2 of schedules 
1 to 7, inclusive, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, 
shall be treated as the rates of duty existing on July 1, 1934. 
(2) The rates of duty in rate column numbered 1 of schedules 
1 to 7, inclusive, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States shall 
be treated as the rates of duty existing on July 1,1958; except that 
with respect to any articles the rates for which have been perma-
nently changed by statute or Presidential proclamation since July 
1, 1958, the rates to be regarded as existing on that date shall 
be rates which the Commission specifically declares, in the sup-
plemental reports made pursuant to section 101(c) of this Act, 
to be rates which, in its judgment, conform to the fullest extent 
practicable to the rates presently regarded as existing on July 1, 
1958. 
TITLE 
III—AMENDMENTS 
AND 
KEPEALS 
SEC. 301. (a) Sections 301, 308, 489, 504, and 508 of the Tariff Act 
Repeals, 
of 1930, as amended, are hereby repealed. 
At^L^l^^on^Von 
(b) Section 312 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. rLieV stat. sis.' 
1312), is amended to read as follows: 
46 stat. 692. 
''SEC. 312. BONDED SMELTING AND REFINING WAREHOUSES. 
"(a) Any plant engaged in smelting or refining, or both, of metal-
bearing materials as defijied in this section may, upon the giving of 
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satisfactory bond, be designated a bonded smelting or refining ware-
house. Metal-bearing materials may be entered into a bonded smelt-
ing or refining warehouse without the payment of duties thereon and 
there smelted or refined, or both, together with metal-bearing materials 
of domestic or foreign origin. 
Upon arrival of imported metal-
bearing materials at the warehouse they shall be sampled according 
to commercial methods and assayed, both under customs supervision. 
The bond shall be charged with a sum equal in amount to the duties 
which would be payable on such metal-bearing materials in their con-
dition as imported if entered for consumption, and the bond charge 
shall be adjusted to reflect changes in the applicable rate of duty 
occurring while the imported materials are still covered by the bona. 
"(b) The several charges against such bond may be canceled in 
whole or in part— 
"(1) upon the exportation from the bonded warehouses which 
treated the metal-bearing materials, or from any other bonded 
smelting or refining warehouse, of a quantity of the same kind of 
metal contained in any product of smelting or refining of metal-
bearing materials equal to the dutiable quantity contained in 
the imported metal-bearing materials less wastage provided for 
in subsection (c), or 
" (2) upon payment of duties on the dutia^ble quantity of metal 
contained in the imported metal-bearing materials, or 
"(3) upon the transfer of the bond charges to another bonded 
smelting or refining warehouse by physical shipment of a quantity 
of the same kind of metal contained in any product of smelting or 
refining of metal-bearing materials equal to the dutiable quantity 
contained in the imported metal-bearing materials less wastage 
provided for in subsection (c), or 
" (4) upon the transfer of the bond charges to a bonded customs 
warehouse other than a bonded smelting or refining warehouse 
by physical shipment of a quantity of the same kind of metal 
contained in any product of smelting or refining equal to the 
dutiable quantity contained in the imported metal-bearing mate-
rials less wastage provided for in subsection (c), and upon with-
drawal from such other warehouse for expprtation or domestic 
consumption the provisions of this section shall apply, or 
"(5) upon the transfer to another bonded smelting or refining 
warehouse without physical shipment of metal of bond charges 
representing a quantity of dutiable metal contained in imported 
metal-bearing materials less wastage provided for in subsection 
(c) of the plant of initial treatment of such materials provided 
there is on hand at the warehouse to which the transfer is made 
sufficient like metal in any form to satisfy the transferred bond 
charges. 
"(c) For purposes of paragraplis (1), (3), (4), and (5) of subsec-
tion (b), due allowances shall be made for wastage of metals other than, 
copper, lead, and zinc, as ascertained from time to time by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. 
" (d) Upon the exportation of a product of smelting or refining other 
than refined metal the bond shall be credited with a quantity of metal 
equivalent to the quantity of metal contained in the product exported 
less the proportionate part of the deductions allowed for losses in de-
termination of the bond charge being cancelled that would not ordi-
narily be sustained in production of the specific product exported as 
ascertained from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
"(e) Two or more smelting or refinin;^ warehouses may be included 
under one general bond and the quantities of each kind of metal sub-
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ject to duty on hand at all of such warehouses may be aggregated to 
satisfy the bond obligation. 
"(f) For purposes of this section— 
"(1) the term 'metal-bearing materials' means metal-bearing 
Definitions, 
ores and other metal-bearing materials provided for in schedule 
6, part 1, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, 'metal waste 
and scrap' and 'unwrought metal' to be smelted or refined pro-
vided for in schedule 6, part 2, of such schedules, and metal com-
pounds to be processed for the recovery of their metal content; 
"(2) the term 'smelting or refining' embraces only pyrometal-
lurgical, hydrometallurgical, electrometallurgical, chemical, or 
other processes— 
"(A) for the treatment of metal-bearing materials to re-
duce the metal content thereof to a metallic state in the course 
of recovering it in forms which if imported would be classi-
fiable in part 2 of schedule 6 as 'unwrought metal', or in the 
form of oxides or other compounds which are obtained 
directly from the treatment of materials provided for in 
part 1 of schedule 6, and 
"(B) for the treatment of unwrought metal or metal waste 
and scrap to remove impurities or undesired components; 
and 
" (3) the term 'product of smelting or refining' means metals or 
metal-bearing materials resulting directly from smelting or refin-
ing processes, but does not include metal-bearing ores as defined 
in part 1 of schedule 6. 
"(g) Labor performed and services rendered pursuant to this sec-
tion shall be under the supervision of an officer of the customs, to be 
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and at the expense of the 
manufacturer. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make 
Rules and regu-
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the pro- Nations, 
visions of this section." 
SEC. 302. (a) The first sentence of section 4501(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 is amended to read as follows: "There is hereby 
esA stat. 533. 
imposed upon manufactured sugar manufactured in the United States, 
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a tax, to be paid by the manufacturer at the rate of 0.53 cent per pound 
of the total sugars therein." 
(b) Section 4501(b) of such Code is hereby repealed. 
Subsection 
(c) of section 4501 of such Code is redesignated as subsection (b), and 
68A stat. 533; 
•such subsection is amended— 
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(1) by striking out "manufacture, use, or importation" in the 
first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "manufacture 
or use"; and 
(2) by striking out "subsection (a) or (b)" in the second sen-
tence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (a)". 
(c) Section 6418(b) of such Code is amended by striking out"; ex- 
esA stat. soi. 
cept that no such payment shall be allowed with respect to any manu- 
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factured sugar, or article, upon which, through substitution or other-
wise, a drawback of any tax paid under section 4501 (b) has been or is 
to be claimed under any provisions of law made applicable by section 
(d)' Sections 4504, 4511, 4512, 4513, 4514, 4521, 4531, 4532, 4541, 
Repeals. 
4542, 4551, 4552, 4553, 4561, 4562, 4571, 4572, 4581, 4582, 4601, 4602, J^ "^c 4504 et 
4603,6412 (d) and 7511 of such Code are hereby repealed and the tables ^^'^' 
of sections for such Code are correspondingly amended. 
SEC. 303. (a) Section 1 of the Act of March 2, 1897 (29 Stat. 604), 
as amended (21 U.S.C. 41), is hereby further amended by changing the 
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period at the end of the first sentence to a comma, by deleting the 
second sentence, and by adding the following after such comma: 
"except as provided in the Tariff Schedules of the United States." 
63 Stat. 401. 
(b) Section 602(d) (6) of the Act of June 30, 1949, chapter 288, 
title VI, as renumbered by Sixty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages 578, 
583 (40 U.S.C. 474), is hereby amended by changing the comma fol-
lowing "Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act" to a semi-
colon and deleting the remainder thereof. 
Repeals. 
(c) The followiug provisious are hereby repealed: Act of January 
9,1883 (ch. 17, 22 Stat. 402; 19 U.S.C. 193) ; Act of May 18, 1896 (ch. 
195, 29 Stat. 122; 19 U.S.C. 194); Act of March 3, 1899 (ch. 454, 30 
Stat. 1372; 19 U.S.C. 195); section 1, Act of August 27,1949 (ch. 517, 
63 Stat. 666; 19 U.S.C. 196a) ; section 11, Act of June 16, 1951 (ch. 
141, 65 Stat. 75; 19 U.S.C. 1367) ; section 2951, Revised Statutes (19 
. U.S.C. 420) ; section 206(b), Act of May 28, 1956 (ch. 327, 70 Stat. 
200; 7 U.S.C. 1856) ; Act of August 10,1956 (ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 137; 
10 U.S.C. 2383) ; and section 161(1), Act of August 30, 1954 (ch. 
1073, 68 Stat. 950; 42 U.S.C. 2201(1)). 
TITLE IV—TARIFF TREATMENT OF CUBAN PRODUCTS 
SEC. 401. (a) Cuba is hereby declared to be a nation described in 
section 5 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended 
65 Stat. 73. 
(19 U.S.C. 1362, relating to imports from nations and areas domi-
nated or controlled by the f o r e i ^ government or foreign organization 
controlling the world Communist movement). Articles which are— 
(1) the growth, produce, or manufacture of Cuba, and 
(2) imported on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
shall be denied the benefits of concessions contained in any trade agree-
ment entered into under the authority of section 350 of the Tariff Act 
48 Stat. 943. 
of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351). 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall affect the rates of duty or the 
customs or excise treatment of articles the growth, produce, or manu-
facture of any country other than Cuba. 
(c) Subsection (a) shall not apply on or after the date on which the 
President proclaims that he has determined that Cuba is no longer 
dominated or controlled by the foreign government or foreign organi-
zation controlling the world Communist movement. 
33 Stat. 3. 
(d) The Act of December 17,1903 (19 U.S.C. 124,125), and section 
46 Stat. 695. 
gig of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1316), both re-
lating to the implementation of the treaty with Cuba concluded on 
33 Stat. 2136. 
December 11, 1902, shall not apply during the period during which 
subsection (a) applies. 
TITLE V—EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 501. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the repeal of 
titles I and I I of the Tariff Act of 1930 and the substitution of a new 
Ante.pp- 72, 73. title I therefor, as provided for in title I of this Act, and the provisions 
of title I I I of this Act shall become effective with respect to articles 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
the 10th day following the date of the proclamation of the President 
provided for in section 102. 
(b) The amendment made by section 302(a) shall become effective 
on the 10th day following the date of the proclamation of the Presi-
dent provided tor in section 102. 
Approved May 24, 1962.