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S 2543 111th Congress Senate

A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leather whose height from the bottom of the…

Official title: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leath… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leather whose height from the bottom of the outer sole to the top of the upper does not exceed 9 inches (22.86 cm).

Introduced: October 30, 2009 Introduced by: Cantwell, Maria Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance Tariffs
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Oct 30, 2009
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leather whose height from the bottom of the outer sole to the top of the upper does not exceed 9 inches (22.86 cm).
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2543: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leather whose height from the bottom of the outer sole to the top of the upper does not exceed 9 inches (22.86 cm).. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-2543/
MLA
"S. 2543: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leather whose height from the bottom of the outer sole to the top of the upper does not exceed 9 inches (22.86 cm).." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-2543/.
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S. 2543, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-2543/.
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[S. 2543: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's wading boots, valued over $30/pair, with textile outer soles and uppers of leather or composition leather whose height from the bottom of the outer sole to the top of the upper does not exceed 9 inches (22.86 cm).](https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-2543/)
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