DUTY-FREE TREATMENT FOR ARTICLES ASSEMBLED IN BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES FROM COMPONENTS PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.

SEC. 222. DUTY-FREE TREATMENT FOR ARTICLES ASSEMBLED IN BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES FROM COMPONENTS PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES. (a) In General.— U.S. Note 2 of subchapter II of chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended— (1) by striking out “2. Any” and inserting “2. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), any”; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(b) No article (except a textile article, apparel article, or petroleum, or any product derived from petroleum, provided for in heading 2709 or 2710) may be treated as a foreign article, or as subject to duty, if— “(i) the article is— 104 STAT. 659 “(A) assembled or processed in whole of fabricated components that are a product of the United States, or “(B) processed in whole of ingredients (other than water) that are a product of the United States, in a beneficiary country; and “(ii) neither the fabricated components, materials or ingredients, after exportation from the United States, nor the article itself, before importation into the United States, enters the commerce of any foreign country other than a beneficiary country. As used in this paragraph, the term ‘beneficiary country’ means a country listed in general note 3(c)(v)(A).”. (b) Effective Date.— The amendments made by subsection (a) applies with respect to goods assembled or processed abroad that are entered on or after October 1, 1990.