PROTECTIVE SPORTS APPAREL.

SEC. 426. PROTECTIVE SPORTS APPAREL. Subchapter II of chapter 99 is amended— (1) by adding at the end of the U.S. notes thereto the following: “12. (a) For the purposes of subheading 9902.62.01— “(1) The term ‘sports clothing’ refers to: “(A) ice hockey pants, provided for in subheadings 6113.00, 6114.30, 6210.40, 6210.50, 6211.33 or 6211.43; and “(B) other articles of sports wearing apparel which be-cause of their padding, fabric, construction, or other special features are specially designed to protect against injury (e.g., from blows, falls, road burns or fire). “(2) The term ‘sports clothing’ does not include protective equipment for sports or games such as fencing masks and breast plates, shoulder pads, leg guards, chest protectors, elbow and knee pads, cricket pads and shin guards. “(b) The column 1 general rate of duty for articles entered under heading 9902.62.01 is a rate equal to the column 1 rate of duty that 104 STAT. 689would have applied to such articles under the Tariff Schedules of the United States on December 31, 1988.”; and (2) by inserting in numerical sequence the following new heading: “ 9902.62.01 Sports clothing, however provided for in chapters 61 and 62 The rate of duty prescribed In US. note 12 to this subchapter No change No change On or before 12/31/92 ”