To suspend temporarily the duty on placebos to be used in clinical trials for the drug ASKP1240.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on placebos to be used in clinical trials for the drug ASKP1240.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5364 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5364

  To suspend temporarily the duty on placebos to be used in clinical 
                     trials for the drug ASKP1240.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2012

   Mr. Dold 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 placebos to be used in clinical 
                     trials for the drug ASKP1240.

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

SECTION 1. PLACEBOS TO BE USED IN CLINICAL TRIALS FOR THE DRUG 
              ASKP1240.

    (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        Placebos, composed  Free            No change      No change      On or before     ''.
                          of sodium L-                                                      12/31/2015
                          glumate, D-
                          sorbitol, and
                          polysorbate 80,
                          to be used in
                          clinical trials
                          for the drug
                          ASKP1240
                          (provided for in
                          subheading
                          3824.90.92)......

    (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to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 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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