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Volume 72

Public Law 85–453

To continue until the close of June 30, 1959, the suspension of duties on metal scrap, and for other purposes.

Approved June 11, 1958

Statutory text

AN ACT

To continue until the close of June 30, 1959, the suspension of duties on metal scrap, and for other purposes.

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

That the first sentence of section 2 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 869, Eighty-first Congress), is hereby amended by striking out “June 30, 1958” and inserting in lieu thereof “June 30, 1959”: Provided, That this Act shall not apply to lead scrap, lead alloy scrap, antimonial lead scrap, scrap battery lead or plates, zinc scrap, or zinc alloy scrap, or to any form of tungsten scrap, tungsten carbide scrap, or tungsten alloy scrap; or to articles of lead, lead alloy, antimonial lead, zinc, or zinc alloy, or to articles of tungsten, tungsten carbide, or tungsten alloy, imported for remanufacture by melting.

Sec. 2.

This Act shall not apply to any article provided for in section 4541 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

Sec. 3.

Section 1 (b) of the Act of March 13, 1942 (Ch. 180, 56 Stat. 171), as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a comma and the following: “but does not include such nonferrous materials and articles in pig, ingot, or billet form which have passed through a smelting process and which can be commercially used without remanufacture”.

Approved June 11, 1958.

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