To suspend temporarily the duty on certain tirebuilding machines used in the manufacture of extra-wide pneumatic truck and automobile tires, and parts and accessories thereof.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain tirebuilding machines used in the manufacture of extra-wide pneumatic truck and automobile tires, and parts and accessories thereof.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5297 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5297

 To suspend temporarily the duty on certain tirebuilding machines used 
in the manufacture of extra-wide pneumatic truck and automobile tires, 
                   and parts and accessories thereof.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2008

 Mr. Inglis of South Carolina 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 certain tirebuilding machines used 
in the manufacture of extra-wide pneumatic truck and automobile tires, 
                   and parts and accessories thereof.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN TIREBUILDING MACHINES USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF 
              EXTRA-WIDE PNEUMATIC TRUCK AND AUTOMOBILE TIRES, AND 
              PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF.

    (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:


``      9902.01.00       Machines,           Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/ ''.
                          including but not                                                  31/2011.......
                          limited to post
                          systems, feeder
                          systems, reels,
                          conveying
                          equipment, and
                          controlling
                          machinery, of a
                          kind used for
                          building truck
                          and automobile
                          tires, capable of
                          producing tires
                          having a tread
                          width of more
                          than 450 mm
                          (provided for in
                          subheading
                          8477.51.00), and
                          parts and
                          accessories
                          thereof..........

    (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.
    (c) Retroactive Application.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or any other provision of law, upon 
proper request filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection before the 
90th day after the date of the enactment of this Act, any entry, or 
withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, of any good--
            (1) that was made on or after January 1, 2008, and before 
        the 15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
            (2) with respect to which there would have 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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