Volume 82 · 1001
Public Law 90–564
To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States with reflect to the classification of Chinese gooseberries.
Approved October 12, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States with reflect to the classification of Chinese gooseberries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That schedule 1,
Chinese gooseberries.
Tariff rate, reduction.
part 9, subpart B of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended (1) by striking out “Fresh” in item 149.50 and inserting in lieu thereof “Other fruits, fresh”, and (2) by inserting immediately before such item the following new item:
| “ | 149.48 | Chinese gooseberries (Actinidia Chinensis Planch.), fresh | 0.6¢ per lb. | 1.25¢ per lb. | ” |
Sec. 2.
The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or after the thirtieth day after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from
Future reductions.
warehouse, for consumption on or after January 1, 1969, January 1, 1970, January 1, 1971, and January 1, 1972, item 149.48 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (as added by the first section of this Act) is amended by striking out the matter in rate column numbered 1 and inserting in lieu thereof, respectively, “0.4c per lb.”, “0.3c per lb.”, “0.1¢ per lb.”, and “Free”.
The rates of duty in rate column numbered 1 of the Tariff
Status of rate.
Schedules of the United States for item 149.48 (as added by the first section of this Act and amended by subsection (b) of this section) shall be treated as not having the status of statutory provisions enacted by the Congress, but as having been proclaimed by the President as being required or appropriate to carry out foreign trade agreements to which the United States is a party.
For purposes of section 351(b) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the rate of duty in rate column numbered 2 of the Tariff
Schedules of the United States for item 149.48 (as added by the first section of this Act) shall be treated as the rate of duty existing on July 1, 1934.
Approved October 12, 1968.