To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on certain chemical compounds.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the existing temporary duty suspension, through December 31, 2005, on certain chemical compounds.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2019 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2019

 To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on certain chemical 
                               compounds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2003

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on certain chemical 
                               compounds.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS.

    (a) Amendment.--Heading 9902.19.80 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States is amended in the effective period column 
by striking ``2003'' and inserting ``2005''.
    (b) Retroactive Application.--If the date of the enactment of this 
Act occurs on or after January 1, 2004, then, notwithstanding section 
514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 or any other provision of law, and upon 
proper request filed with the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection 
of the Department of Homeland Security 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 9902.19.80 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States--
            (1) which is made after December 31, 2003, and before 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 subsection (a) 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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