A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend trade benefits to certain tents imported into the United States.

Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to provide duty-free treatment for certain tents imported from designated least-developed beneficiary countries.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3164 Introduced in Senate (IS)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3164

  To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend trade benefits to certain 
                 tents imported into the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 25, 2006

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend trade benefits to certain 
                 tents imported into the United States.

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

SECTION 1. DUTY-FREE TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN TENTS.

    (a) Articles Not Designated as Sensitive.--Section 503(b) (19 
U.S.C. 2463(b)) of the Trade Act of 1974 is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ``and, with respect 
        to countries designated under section 503(a)(1)(B), paragraph 
        (5),'' after ``paragraph (4)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Certain tents.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(A), the 
        President may designate as an eligible article or articles 
        under subsection (a) certain tents with a sewn in floor and 
        base size less than 6.096 meters by 6.096 meters classifiable 
        under subheading 6306.22.90 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
        of the United States.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to any article entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after the date on which the President makes a 
designation with respect to the article under section 503(b)(5) of the 
Trade Act of 1974, as added by subsection (a).
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