To amend section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to specify articles that qualify as commercially interchangeable merchandise for purposes of certain duty drawback.

Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make eligible for the drawback (refund) of duties, paid on certain imported merchandise, certain other merchandise classified as commercially interchangeable with such imported merchandise, if within the three-year period since its own importation, without having been used within the United States, the commercially interchangeable merchandise is exported or destroyed.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3988 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3988

To amend section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to specify articles that 
  qualify as commercially interchangeable merchandise for purposes of 
                         certain duty drawback.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 3, 2009

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to specify articles that 
  qualify as commercially interchangeable merchandise for purposes of 
                         certain duty drawback.

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

SECTION 1. COMMERCIALLY INTERCHANGEABLE MERCHANDISE FOR DUTY DRAWBACK 
              PURPOSES.

    (a) In General.--Section 313(j) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1313(j)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(5) For purposes of this subsection, merchandise is 
        `commercially interchangeable' with imported merchandise if it 
        is classifiable under the same 8-digit subheading of the 
        Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to claims filed for drawback under section 313(j) of 
the Tariff Act of 1930 on or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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