To suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics, covering the ankle, other than work footwear.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics, covering the ankle, other than work footwear.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5425 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5425

 To suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear with outer soles 
 and uppers of rubber or plastics, covering the ankle, other than work 
                               footwear.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2012

Mr. Huelskamp 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 footwear with outer soles 
 and uppers of rubber or plastics, covering the ankle, other than work 
                               footwear.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN FOOTWEAR WITH OUTER SOLES AND UPPERS OF RUBBER OR 
              PLASTICS, COVERING THE ANKLE, OTHER THAN WORK FOOTWEAR.

    (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      Footwear with       Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                        outer soles and                                                    31/2015.......
                        uppers of rubber
                        or plastics,
                        covering the
                        ankle, other than
                        work footwear,
                        the foregoing for
                        persons other
                        than for men or
                        women (provided
                        for in subheading
                        6402.91.40)......

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 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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