Volume 92 · 1816
Public Law 95–516
For the relief of Eastern Telephone Supply and Manufacturing, Incorporated,and other matters.
Approved October 25, 1978
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of Eastern Telephone Supply and Manufacturing, Incorporated,and other matters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding
Eastern Telephone Supply and Manufacturing, Inc.
Natural graphite, duty suspension.
the time limitations in section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or in any other provision of law, Eastern Telephone Supply and Manufacturing, Incorporated, of Newport, Rhode Island, may file, within sixty days after the date of enactment of this Act, a protest with the United States Customs Service concerning the overpayment of customs duties on goods purchased from Bell of Canada that entered the United States through Buffalo, New York, and Champlain, New York, during the period from February 1974, to December 1974, inclusive. The United States Customs Service shall accept such protest as if it were filed in a timely fashion and shall review such protest in accordance with the otherwise applicable provisions of law.
SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF DUTY ON NATURAL GRAPHITE.
Item 909.01 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended by striking out “6/30/78” and inserting in lieu thereof “6/30/81”.
The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after June 30, 1978.
Upon request therefor filed with the customs officer concerned on or before the ninetieth day after the date of enactment of this Act, the entry of any article—
which was made on or after June 30, 1978, and before the date of enactment of this Act, and
with respect to which there would have been no duty if the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section applied to such entry
shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 514 of the Tariff Act
of 1930, or any other provisions of law, be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry has been made on the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved October 25, 1978.