[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 688 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 688

A bill to temporarily suspend duties on certain composite diagnostic or 
                          laboratory reagents.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 1 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

   Mr. Lugar introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
A bill to temporarily suspend duties on certain composite diagnostic or 
                          laboratory reagents.

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

SECTION 1. TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF DUTY ON CERTAIN COMPOSITE DIAGNOSTIC 
              OR LABORATORY REAGENTS.

    (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:

      

       ``  9902.38.22   Composite diagnostic or                  No change      No change      On or before     
                         laboratory reagents,                                                   12/31/97        
                         comprising strips of                                                                   
                         plastics each incorporating                                                            
                         on one side a pad of fibrous                                                           
                         or porous material                                                                     
                         impregnated with chemical                                                              
                         reagents for blood chemistry                                                           
                         analysis and having, either                                                            
                         on the reverse side or on an                                                           
                         accompanying separate strip                                                            
                         of plastics, a magnetic bar                                                            
                         code containing machine-                                                               
                         readable instructions                                                                  
                         designating the desired                                                                
                         chemical analysis and                                                                  
                         calibrating the instrument                                                             
                         performing such analysis                                                               
                         (provided for in subheading                                                            
                         3822.00.50).................  Free                                                     
                                                                                                                

    (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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