94 STAT. 3358
PUBLIC LAW 96-578—DEC. 23, 1980
Public Law 96-578 96th Congress Dec. 23, 1980 [H.R. 7709]
Duty-free cigarettes, increase. U.S. Tariff Schedules, amendment.
An Act
To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the quantity of cigarettes that may be accorded duty-free treatment if acquired in the insular possessions and entered by returning United States residents.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That subpart A of part 2 to schedule 8 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended— (1) by striking out ", including not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 Cigars,' in the superior heading to items 813.30 and 813.31; (2) by inserting ", and including not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars" immediately after "alcoholic beverages" in item 813.30; and (3) by amending the article description for item 813.31 to read as follows: "Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $600 in aggregate fair market value in the country of acquisition, including— "(a) but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21, not more than 4 liters of alcoholic beverages, not more than 1 liter of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in American Samoa, Guam, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and "(b) not more than 1,000 cigarettes, not more than 200 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and not more than 100 cigars, if such person arrives directly or indirectly from such insular possessions, not more than $300 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions (but this item does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions)". SEC. 2. The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall apply with respect to persons arriving in the United States on or after the 30th day after the date of the enactment of this Act. Approved December 23, 1980.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 96-1360 (Comm. on Ways and Means). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 126 (1980): Nov. 17, considered and passed House. Dec. 15, considered and passed Senate.
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