Volume 72
Public Law 85–418
To provide for the temporary suspension of the import duties on certain coarse wool, and to provide additional time for the Tariff Commission to review the customs tariff schedules.
Approved May 19, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the temporary suspension of the import duties on certain coarse wool, and to provide additional time for the Tariff Commission to review the customs tariff schedules.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of paragraph 1101 (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U. S. C., sec. 1001, par. 1101 (b)) is amended—
by inserting after the word “foregoing” the following: “and all other wools of whatever blood or origin not finer than 46s”; and
by inserting before the period at the end thereof a colon and the following: “Provided, That a tolerance of not more than 10 per centum of wools not finer than 48s may be allowed in each bale or package of wools imported as not finer than 46s”.
Sec. 2.
The amendments made by this Act shall be effective only with respect to wool entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, during the period beginning on the sixtieth day after the date of the enactment of this Act and ending at the close of June 30, 1960.
Sec. 3.
Section 101 (c) of the Customs Simplification Act of 1954
(Public Law 768, Eighty-third Congress) is amended by striking out “March 1, 1958” and inserting in lieu thereof “January 1, 1959”.
Approved May 19, 1958.