To suspend temporarily the duty on stoppers, lids, and other closures.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on stoppers, lids, and other closures.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2543 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2543

 To suspend temporarily the duty on stoppers, lids, and other closures.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2005

Mr. Kuhl of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To suspend temporarily the duty on stoppers, lids, and other closures.

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

SECTION 1. STOPPERS, LIDS, AND OTHER CLOSURES.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by inserting in 
numerical sequence the following new heading:


``      9902.70.10       Stoppers, lids,    Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                         and other                                                          31/2009
                         closures of low
                         expansion
                         borosilicate
                         glass or alumino-
                         borosilicate
                         glass, having a
                         linear
                         coefficient of
                         expansion not
                         exceeding 3.3 x
                         10-7 per Kelvin
                         within a
                         temperature range
                         of 0 to 300 C,
                         produced by
                         automatic machine
                         (provided for in
                         subheading
                         7010.20.20) or
                         produced by hand
                         (provided for in
                         subheading
                         7010.20.30)......

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after the 15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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