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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 952
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide
a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH11 (legislative day, MARCH10), 2025
Mr. C
ASSIDY(for himself, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. MCCONNELL) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number
for all whiskies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. UNIFORM DUTY TREATMENT OF WHISKIES. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 22 of the Harmonized 4
Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by strik-5
ing subheadings 2208.30, 2208.30.30, and 2208.30.60 6
and inserting the following, with the article description for 7
subheading 2208.30.00 having the same degree of inden-8
tation as the article description for subheading 9
2208.50.00: 10
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‘‘ 2208.30.00 Whiskies .......................................... Free $2.04/pf liter ’’.
(b) INSTRUCTION TO UNITEDSTATESINTER-1
NATIONALTRADECOMMISSION.—The United States 2
International Trade Commission shall add statistical suf-3
fixes to subheading 2208.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 4
Schedule of the United States, as amended by subsection 5
(a), as follows: 6
‘‘2208.30.0010 ..... Irish or Scotch in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0015 ....... Irish or Scotch in containers each holding over 4 liters
2208.30.0020 ....... Bourbon in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0025 ....... Bourbon in containers each holding over 4 liters
2208.30.0030 ....... Rye in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0035 ....... Rye in containers each holding over 4 liters
2208.30.0040 ....... Other in containers each holding not over 4 liters
2208.30.0045 ....... Other in containers each holding over 4 liters.’’.
(c) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 7
this section shall apply with respect to articles entered, 8
or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 9
the date that is 15 days after the date of the enactment 10
of this Act. 11
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