HR 5686 · 99th Congress · Foreign Trade and International Finance

Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1986

Introduced 1986-10-09· Sponsored by Rep. Rostenkowski, Dan [D-IL-8]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.(1986-10-18)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] 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…

Summarized by Claude AI · Non-partisan · For informational purposes only

Cosponsors (20)

14 Democrats6 Republicans