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PUBLIC LAW 91-655-JAN. 5, 1971

and the duties accruing thereon duly paid; and if such owner or master shall refuse to take such oath, or take it falsely, the vessel shall be seized and forfeited. "(c) I n the case of any vessel designed and used primarily for purposes other than transporting passengers or property in the foreign or coasting trade which arrives in a port of the United States two years or more after its last departure from a port of the United States, the duties imposed by this section shall apply only with respect to (1) fish nets and netting, and (2) other equipments, and parts thereof, and repair parts and materials purchased, or repairs made, during the first six months after the last departure of such vessel from a port of the United States." SEC. 2. (a) The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall apply with respect to entries made in connection with arrivals of vessels on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Upon request therefor filed with the customs officer concerned on or before the ninetieth day after the date of the enactment of this Act, any entry in connection with the arrival of a vessel used primarily for the catching of shrimp— (1) which was made after January 1, 1969, and before the date of the enactment of this Act, and (2) with respect to which there would have been no duty if the amendment made by the first section of this Act applied to such shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 or any other provision of law, be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry had been made on the day after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 3. Effective with respect to entries made in connection with arrivals of vessels on or after the date of the enactment of this Act (or treated under section 2 as made on the day after such date), sections 3114 and 3115 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (19 U.S.C. 257 and 258) are repealed. Approved January 5, 1971.

Shrimp ,'essels.

Ante, p. 284.

Repeals.

Public Law 91-655 AN ACT i\iy

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To amend item 70!).10 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide that the rate of duty on parts of stethoscopes shall be the same as the rate on stethoscopes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled, That (a) the article description for item 709.10 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended to read as follows: "Percussion hammers, stethoscopes, and parts of stethoscopes"'. (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the date of the enactment of this Act. Approved January 5, 1971.

Januarys, 1971

[H. R. 7311]

stethoscope parts. Duty. 77A Stat. 342; 79 Stat. 945.

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