To correct the tariff treatment of certain articles covered by the Nairobi Protocol.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to include parts and accessories of handicapped aids for tariff treatment under the Schedule.

[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 3644 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3644

  To correct the tariff treatment of certain articles covered by the 
                           Nairobi Protocol.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 22, 1993

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To correct the tariff treatment of certain articles covered by the 
                           Nairobi Protocol.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN ARTICLES COVERED BY THE NAIROBI PROTOCOL.

    The superior text to subheadings 9817.00.92, 9817.00.94, and 
9817.00.96 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is 
amended by inserting before the colon the following: ``, parts thereof, 
and accessories thereto''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
amendment made by section 1 applies with respect to articles entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day 
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 appropriate customs officer within 180 days after the 
15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act, any entry or 
withdrawal--
            (1) that was made after August 11, 1985, and before such 
        15th day; 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 though such amendment applied to 
such entry or withdrawal.

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