HR 5686 · 99th Congress · Foreign Trade and International Finance
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1986
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EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.(1986-10-18)
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Title I: Tariff Provisions - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle A: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to reclassify and impose a duty on casein, caseinates, and milk protein concentrate for human food and animal feed use. Reduces the duty on salted and dried plums. Imposes a duty on natural unconcentrated, non-reconstituted grapefruit juice. Grants duty-free treatment to hatters' fur. Treats plywoods with tongued, grooved, lapped, or otherwise worked edges as plywood for tariff purposes. Provides that certain gloves (those without fourchettes and constructed of a textile fabric with rubber or plastics) shall be regarded as gloves of textile materials. Creates a new tariff classification to cover imports of certain woven fabrics of man-made fibers. Includes all forms of silicone in the term "synthetic plastics materials." Imposes a duty on silicone resins and materials. Creates a new tariff classification to cover the imports of motor fuel blending stocks. Imposes a duty on motor fuel blending stocks. Reclassifies a "slab" of iron or steel to be not…
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Cosponsors (20)
14 Democrats6 Republicans