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Volume 72

Public Law 85–417

To amend paragraph 1541 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, to provide that the rate of duty in effect with respect to harpsichords and clavichords shall be the same as the rate in effect with respect to pianos.

Approved May 16, 1958

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend paragraph 1541 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, to provide that the rate of duty in effect with respect to harpsichords and clavichords shall be the same as the rate in effect with respect to pianos.

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

That paragraph 1541 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U. S. C., sec. 1001, par. 1541 (a)), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “Harpsichords and clavichords, and parts thereof, shall be dutiable at the rate (however established) applicable to pianos (or parts thereof) on the date entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption.”

Sec. 2.

The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall apply to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the day on which this Act is enacted.

Approved May 16, 1958.

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