1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the
Customs Facilitation and Trade
Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
TITLE I—Customs facilitation
Subtitle A—Functions other than investigative functions
Sec. 101. Establishment of Agency; Commissioner.
Sec. 102. Officers and employees.
Sec. 103. Separate budget for U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency.
Sec. 104. Revolving fund.
Sec. 105. Advances in foreign countries.
Sec. 106. Advances for enforcement of customs
provisions.
Sec. 107. Certification of reason for advance.
Sec. 108. Payments in foreign countries; claims for
reimbursement.
Sec. 109. Customs administration.
Sec. 110. Personnel.
Sec. 111. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle B—Investigative functions
Sec. 121. Establishment of Agency.
Sec. 122. Separate budget for U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency.
Sec. 123. Undercover investigative operations.
Sec. 124. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle C—Joint Strategic Plan
Sec. 131. Joint Strategic Plan.
TITLE II—Customs facilitation, trade enforcement, and
transparency
Subtitle A—Customs facilitation and transparency
Sec. 201. Trade benefits under the Customs-Trade Partnership
Against Terrorism.
Sec. 202. Customs Facilitation Partnership Program.
Sec. 203. Consultations with respect to mutual recognition
agreements.
Sec. 204. Commercial Customs Operations Advisory
Committee.
Sec. 205. Automated Commercial Environment computer
system.
Sec. 206. International Trade Data System.
Sec. 207. Electronic submission of public comments.
Subtitle B—Trade enforcement
Chapter 1—Commercial risk assessment targeting
Sec. 211. Commercial Targeting Division and National Targeting
and Analysis Groups.
Sec. 212. Annual illegal drug control law enforcement
strategy.
Sec. 213. Report on oversight of revenue protection and
enforcement measures by the inspector general.
Sec. 214. Report on security and revenue measures with respect
to merchandise transported in bond.
Sec. 215. Importer of record program.
Chapter 2—Import health and safety
Sec. 221. Interagency Import Safety Working Group.
Sec. 222. Joint Import Safety Rapid Response Plan.
Sec. 223. Training.
Chapter 3—Import-Related protection of intellectual property
rights
Sec. 231. Intellectual property rights.
Sec. 232. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination
Center.
Sec. 233. Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of
intellectual property rights.
Sec. 234. Repeated import-related infringement of intellectual
property rights.
Sec. 235. Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of
intellectual property rights.
Sec. 236. Training with respect to the enforcement of
intellectual property rights.
Sec. 237. Recordation of works for which a copyright is
pending.
Sec. 238. Availability of samples to owners of copyrights and
trademarks or persons injured by the importation of circumvention
devices.
Sec. 239. Seizure of circumvention devices.
Sec. 240. Information for travelers regarding violations of
intellectual property rights.
Sec. 241. International cooperation and information
sharing.
Sec. 242. Sense of Congress regarding recordation
process.
TITLE III—Miscellaneous provisions
Sec. 301. Consultation on trade and customs revenue
functions.
Sec. 302. Drawback for exported merchandise.
Sec. 303. Penalties for customs brokers.
Sec. 304. Articles repaired or altered.
Sec. 305. Charter flights.
Sec. 306. Symposium fees.
Sec. 307. Pilot program for establishing 24-hour commercial
land border ports of entry.
Sec. 308. Prohibition on importation of goods made with forced
or indentured labor or by benefit of human trafficking.
Sec. 309. Honey transshipment.
Sec. 310. Contraband archaeological or ethnological
materials.
Sec. 311. De minimis and informal entries.
2.In this Act:
(1)Commercial Customs Operations Advisory
CommitteeThe term
Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee means the
Advisory Committee established pursuant to section 202 of this Act or any
successor committee.
(2)Customs and trade laws of the United
StatesThe term customs
and trade laws of the United States includes the following:
(A)The Tariff Act of 1930.
(B)Section 249 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States (19 U.S.C. 3).
(C)Section 2 of the Act of March 4, 1923 (19
U.S.C. 6).
(D)Section 13031 of the Consolidated Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c).
(E)Section 251 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States (19 U.S.C. 66).
(F)Section 1 of the Act of June 26, 1930 (19
U.S.C. 68).
(G)The Foreign Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a
et seq.).
(H)Section 1 of the Act of March 2, 1911 (19
U.S.C. 198).
(I)The Trade Act of 1974.
(J)The Trade Agreements Act of 1979.
(K)The North American Free Trade Area
Implementation Act.
(L)The Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
(M)The Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery
Act.
(N)The Andean Trade Preference Act.
(O)The African Growth and Opportunity
Act.
(P)The Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1381,
chapter 348; 19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.).
(Q)The Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 (Public
Law 99–570; 100 Stat. 3207–79).
(R)The Customs and Trade Act of 1990 (Public
Law 101–382; 104 Stat. 629).
(S)The Customs Procedural Reform and
Simplification Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–410; 92 Stat. 888).
(T)The Trade Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–210;
116 Stat. 933).
(U)The Convention on Cultural Property
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.).
(V)The Act of August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1263,
chapter 566; 19 U.S.C. 2077 et seq.).
(W)Any other provision of law vesting customs
revenue functions in the Secretary of the Treasury.
(X)Any other provision of law relating to
customs facilitation or trade enforcement that is administered by the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency on behalf of any Federal agency that is
required to participate in the International Trade Data System.
(Y)Any other provision of customs or trade law
administered by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
(3)The term customs revenue
function has the meaning given that term in section 415 of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 215).
(4)The term private sector entity
means—
(A)an importer;
(B)an exporter;
(C)a forwarder;
(D)an air, sea, or land carrier or
shipper;
(E)a contract logistics provider;
(F)a customs broker; or
(G)any other person involved in the
importation or exportation of goods into or out of the United States.
(5)The term Joint Strategic Plan
means the plan required by section 123A of the Customs and Trade Act of 1990,
as added by section 131 of this Act.
(6)The term Trade Support Network
means the network of private sector entities that provide input on the design
and development of modernization projects of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs facilitation</header>
<subtitle commented="no" id="id3405AA1525BD40ABA6580E95BD842DD8" level-type="subsequent"><enum>A</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions other than investigative
functions </header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1EBF6AC55FA34B02914E5AA5A1C2102C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Agency;
Commissioner</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82FA4B318AF646128E51C5EBCF855927"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The first section of the Act of March 3,
1927 (44 Stat. 1381, chapter 348; 19 U.S.C. 2071), is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD65EB13BD86446DFB95D540848C91318" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE49861234D9D44A7B471F478713F3FDC" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency; commissioner</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0cfd3be2177c4ff4ae5483d037cb3e14"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is
established in the Department of Homeland Security the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24CB5036CD274B71A862E628DB0ADF98"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency shall be a Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(in this Act, referred to as the <term>Commissioner</term>), who shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd5e2ee0425e944109d14c0a7789e1a3a"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be appointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCE2DF0F4EEDB44A580D957FBCD2244DA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carry out the duties described in
subsection (c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1874611a43d94174b25c5a1cf2ae7be1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report directly to the Secretary of
Homeland Security.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id163FAA0A850D4C7F90E03A5E0EF5021D"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1a19752445b249bdae1a9de31eb568ee"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Commissioner shall
be—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1b58aa6dc9d04993a45171cabb44d3a1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out the duties and powers
prescribed by law and such other duties as the Secretary of Homeland Security
may assign;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4c9869a501d74018920e0de74d6d503e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to direct the administration of the
commercial operations as described in paragraph (2) and the noncommercial
operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe1d2252bcfb64c369282378d8fdd2b4b"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to otherwise safeguard the economic and
homeland security interests of the United States at land borders and ports of
entry.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDec8c758888dd4063a2b6475b3d6e4f08"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial operations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The commercial operations of the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency shall include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID76ed3700aa154a5299f8542b64fe1d3c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">administering any customs revenue function
delegated by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of Homeland
Security pursuant to section 412 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
212);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe339117f58714f2cb8c073c4bb82340c"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">facilitating legitimate international
trade, and enforcing the customs and trade laws of the United States to the
extent of the authority of the Commissioner under such laws;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf918650e95984980a6aca65561e3a3a7"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating all efforts of the Department
of Homeland Security to facilitate legitimate international trade and to
enforce the customs and trade laws of the United States;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0b976f4897454768b74fb96d84fcccdb"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating, on behalf of the Department
of Homeland Security, efforts among executive branch agencies to facilitate
legitimate trade and to enforce the customs and trade laws of the United
States, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb43a3998a32748a7a7eaf0b5a5065c0e"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">representing the Department of Homeland
Security in interagency fora addressing such efforts; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5fbf2b9636714aa29a5e2d0fa35fc30c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating with the Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to develop and implement the Joint
Strategic Plan required under section 123A of the Customs and Trade Act of 1990
(as added by section 131 of the <short-title>Customs
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of
2009</short-title>);</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe64aa46a5e5249b39129ce47e4e86ec1"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating, on behalf of the United
States, efforts with foreign customs agencies to facilitate legitimate
international trade and to enforce the customs and trade laws of the United
States and of foreign countries;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD9B6F4DC1254F8C8763DF1DD4908F13"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consulting with the Committee on Finance of
the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives
on a regular and timely basis regarding the status and substance of
international negotiations relating to the customs and trade laws of the United
States, or of foreign countries, in which personnel of the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency are participating;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2fa9f0154c44a07a55d7df304b6e0ce"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collecting, assessing, and disseminating
information as appropriate and in accordance with law, regarding cargo destined
for the United States, to ensure that such cargo complies with the customs and
trade laws of the United States and to facilitate the legitimate international
trade of such cargo;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID89afbebe25d947ada5d6b31ee32b524a"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">soliciting and considering on a regular
basis input from the private sector, including the Commercial Customs
Operations Advisory Committee, the Trade Support Network, and private sector
entities affected by the efforts of the Federal Government to facilitate
legitimate international trade and to enforce the customs and trade laws of the
United States, with respect to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe3bb267759b2400491b56f6b6d6a9975"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the implementation of new or amended
customs and trade laws; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc494a77ec70b4114aa462c2271f072ac"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development, implementation, or
revision of policies or regulations administered by the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDda54db655b0f463d9cd6e47d69daaa0c"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consulting on a regular basis with the
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives, regarding the resource needs of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency to safeguard the economic security interests of the United
States at land borders and ports of entry; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe32289abac964b11a2b798254d0b463e"><enum>(J)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise advising the Secretary of
Homeland Security with respect to the development of policies associated with
facilitating legitimate international trade and enforcing the customs and trade
laws of the United States.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CEDFFF5A8984EC184F8D59C4C4F3A81"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>Commercial Customs
Operations Advisory Committee</term>, <term>customs and trade laws of the
United States</term>, <term>private sector entity</term>, and <term>Trade
Support Network</term> have the meaning given such terms in section 2 of the
<short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID04ef281274f44b6695962ad58b3c2a35"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compensation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Department of Homeland Security, shall be compensated at the rate
of pay for level III of the Executive Schedule as provided in section 5314 of
title 5, United States Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbdc77fcc8cff4f59bd79631307ce1a84"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Absence or disability of
Commissioner</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Principal
Deputy Commissioner, appointed pursuant to section 2, shall act as Commissioner
of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the absence or disability of the
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or in the event that there
is no Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E087328B5354E96AD2E477A7831C8E5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative continuity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1381,
chapter 348; 19 U.S.C. 2073), is amended by striking section 3 and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD32C8D47E304C2C978CC83FC131D536" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5350446e179141889da3b21624344474" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>3.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of functions, assets, liabilities,
and duties</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4b4177a00420474d8211a2d014fba333"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 211) is repealed, and the functions and associated personnel,
assets, and liabilities, identified under such section 411 on the day before
the date of the enactment of the <short-title>Customs
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>,
are transferred to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCA0E4BF2307043619F3ECB6FB1D666E8"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Continuation in office</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The individual serving as Commissioner of
Customs, in the Department of Homeland Security on the day before the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title> may serve as the
Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency until the earlier
of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE98C520BF6AA46B5BFA7A277C7F4288B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date on which such individual is no
longer eligible to serve as Commissioner of Customs; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66ACB02E416043FF90D55CC3A9EA492E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date on which a person nominated by the
President to be the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is
confirmed by the
Senate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7AD23F44FDC44CBAA6848E1D91DAE073"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reference</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On and after the effective date of this
Act, any reference in law or regulations to the <quote>Commissioner of
Customs</quote> or the <quote>Commissioner of the Customs Service</quote> shall
be deemed to be a reference to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection established pursuant to the first section of the Act of March 3,
1927, as amended by subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID62d5c0f540d24d7a8dfec9121e532bee"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFDFEFC5A40064E97AA015A9C85BDAADC"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 5</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5314 of title 5, United States
Code, is amended by striking <quote>Commissioner of Customs, Department of the
Treasury</quote> and inserting <quote>Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Department of Homeland Security</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7B392D960304D17B273DB6391770E66"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 is amended by striking the item relating to section 411
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFD8629F188BC4414AB79204EFC3A4384" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 411.
Reserved.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2cd7b7e9d7294c01a69626dd597f9e3c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Officers and employees</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B1F1E089DD04D22B5E82312D0578E56"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1381,
chapter 348; 19 U.S.C. 2072), is amended by striking section 2 and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC7C590DD36CF410EB6DF2AF18CA92BC8" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf146283e99a34cfca71d851624bd7501" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Principal Deputy Commissioner; deputy
commissioner; other officers</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95b07af34a4045cd878873f3dfd93306"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Principal Deputy Commissioner</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id32DDDD0517A14814BCB682E605013C35"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be in the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency established by the first section, 1 Principal Deputy
Commissioner who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeae238f7b2944da38652269b3d57775a"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Committee referral</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate, a nomination for Principal Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection shall be referred to the Committee on Finance of the
Senate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7872e0cc9861463f93572fcc0a7b84ce"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Principal Deputy
Commissioner shall include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc0979a20233548bbbca94eb093357ef4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">primary oversight of the commercial
operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB574E4266FDF42D0B12BEF53D0EBD286"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the operations of the Office of
Trade established pursuant to section 4 of this Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc53a027e09714d14b372feb32df8bad6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating the establishment of standards
and policies for designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating training
programs for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency personnel with
responsibilities for customs facilitation and trade enforcement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID12943e61af3d4c88bc2855f14eda7f2c"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the development and
implementation of information technology, research, and communication
functions, including automation and modernization strategies, that support the
operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, including the
implementation of the Automated Commercial Environment computer system
authorized under section 13031(f)(5) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget and
Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(5));</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDab3d266a390f444babd4d6a87941626f"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the administration of customs
revenue functions performed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID22ef4b34c93546e9b6b79a5ab18c5ee0"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the administration of the
financial management activities of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency, including accounting, budgeting, procurement, logistics, financial
systems, policy, planning, and audit oversight;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID52db24836e5e405fbbe365a07882c7d4"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the public communication efforts
of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf95a3c784b474101907a60301ce9748c"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the human resources operations
of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDecb12e0a13244d01817411ebdf0ef0f7"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compensation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Principal Deputy Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, shall be
compensated at the rate of pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule as
provided in section 5315 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2cb369305f504f7d98d858584be87da1"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Absence or disability of Principal Deputy
Commissioner</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant
Commissioner of the Office of Trade, established under section 4, shall act as
the Principal Deputy Commissioner during the disability of the Principal Deputy
Commissioner, or in the event that there is no Principal Deputy
Commissioner.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID23982f62d6844160a79f8d877642bc36"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deputy Commissioner</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID752af458164543f5954bbaaa16e60716"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be in the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency, 1 Deputy Commissioner, who shall be a member of the
Senior Executive Service compensated at the maximum rate of pay provided for in
section 5382 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9803553A8F9648DE88511FA8A09DB78D"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Deputy Commissioner shall
include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID89abad086a5948229e206c409f1dccf9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">primary oversight of the security
operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, including field
operations at land borders and ports of entry;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID98b834bfb0604b00bfad0154a503cc3e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the noncommercial analysis and
dissemination of information collected by the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa40d02ddf1d8426c86d7b91422d6da83"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the enforcement of laws, other
than the customs and trade laws of the United States, by the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency at land borders and ports of entry, including the
detection, interdiction, or apprehension of cargo destined for the United
States or persons seeking entry into the United States in contravention of such
laws.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6391EB4C893148608AEBEEFEDCDB9452"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other
officers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of
Homeland Security may appoint such other officers as are necessary to manage
the individual offices within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
Any appointment of personnel under this subsection shall be subject to the
provisions of the civil service laws, and the salaries shall be fixed in
accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United
States
Code.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCF98BD91E7B64B16BC5B314BB850BDCC"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trade offices and functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1381,
chapter 348; 19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.), is amended by inserting after section 3
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7A701F942A54C1380D188FEA60861C5" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1b85d30b5d134661886acc014860d909" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>4.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of Trade</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa8815a8067a94b04a4f4c35e419b0499"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Office of
Trade</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be within
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency an Office of Trade that shall be
headed by an Assistant Commissioner.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb7cfc6ecc6c0406eb6e7943bc41350d0"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of assets, function, and
personnel; elimination of offices</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9c823e6a76574372825c8c03d2fd6e78"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of International Trade</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID71c591d6eda2460c945fd4dad0cde0cb"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and
liabilities of the Office of International Trade established pursuant to
section 402 of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006
(Public Law 109–347; 120 Stat. 1924) to the Office of Trade established
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0b033612ef564dfb96ad6b2f122e1cb7"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Elimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Office of
International Trade established pursuant to section 402 of the Security and
Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 shall be abolished.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa58622ee13254de5bde7afa770ea66a3"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds appropriated to the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency or the Department of Homeland Security may be used
to transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and liabilities of the Office of
International Trade to an office other than the Office of Trade established
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf6e404be8be649508c277dbc803b1728"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of International Affairs</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc18b95dd886b4ca8869727cd4b940a6a"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and
liabilities of the Office of International Affairs (described in section 415(8)
of the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 215(8))) to the
Office of Trade established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID877d405e923c4483a4a5aab1a03b543b"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Elimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Office of
International Affairs shall be abolished.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2a0fc0a802e746d2a8e455ee04335354"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds appropriated to the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency or the Department of Homeland Security may be used
to transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and liabilities of the Office of
International Affairs to an office other than the Office of Trade established
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8b7de0f76304479ea56d0fee0e6cb4c2"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other transfers</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb4dd5dcf40814f8f91ecf71c22959b79"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner is authorized to transfer
any other assets, functions, or personnel within the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency to the Office of Trade established pursuant to subsection (a)
of this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa56fe461c5d94393ac825aa74259a548"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional notification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less than 90 days prior to such
transfer, the Commissioner shall notify the Committee on Finance of the Senate
and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives of the
specific assets, functions, or personnel to be transferred, and the reason for
such transfer.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID60a36a57d2244069a3b98e71f111ab82"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistant Commissioner</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID53d4c66df0ac4226b4b3fd3fc052125a"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall appoint an Assistant Commissioner who shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0a887fe3e67d4353acfa0c832755365e"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be the head of the Office of Trade;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID09b62cd2cb53473bbaaf1c421dfb0ecf"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report to the Principal Deputy Commissioner
of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDDF41A87B0F44DE683C581180FD82B1F"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be employed without regard to any provision
of law regulating employment or compensation at a rate not to exceed the rate
of pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule as provided in section 5315 of
title 5, United States Code.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9a4e3c8d219141e490143e1fe3220795"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person appointed to be the Assistant
Commissioner of the Office of Trade shall have a minimum of 10 years of
professional experience in the operation of the customs and trade laws of the
United States, not less than 5 of which shall be in non-Federal Government
service.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb9cf917cbd7f4c539df7330ddf433751"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Assistant Commissioner
shall include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8108957ca68b4729af6277c213e57b97"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">directing the development and
implementation of rules, regulations, decisions, notices, and abstracts,
related to the customs and trade laws of the United States administered by the
Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID91261b8abe434c4990440ef6e0382739"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advising the Commissioner with respect to
the impact on international trade of any program or regulation otherwise
proposed or administered by the Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID71f3e0e9cbc34a2bbeaad05ff429378a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">directing the definition and administration
of the trade priority issue areas identified by the Commissioner in the Joint
Strategic Plan required under section 123A of the Customs and Trade Act of
1990;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID73095e50bc714afd815bc53df3853d81"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise advising the Commissioner with
respect to the development and implementation of the Joint Strategic Plan
required under section 123A of the Customs and Trade Act of 1990;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id10F0BAB3A9C348B6AAD512F30ED2E512"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">directing the trade enforcement and
compliance assessment activities of the Agency, including the activities of the
National Targeting and Analysis Groups established under section 211 of the
<short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbfc52ce2f2d74249994c0704adb35ffa"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the trade modernization
activities of the Agency, including the development and implementation of the
Automated Commercial Environment computer system authorized under section
13031(f)(5) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1985
(19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(5)) and support for the establishment of the International
Trade Data System under the oversight of the Department of the Treasury
pursuant to section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C.
1411(d));</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbe2e65edd57247cf8e9d5aaac0e452d5"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advising the Commissioner with respect to
matters arising in the World Customs Organization;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcc439c6408a04a26b2fa7c64f31d31d0"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">directing the administration of customs
revenue functions otherwise provided by law or delegated by the Commissioner;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf8aaecfe32284a8491afb827bb03c861"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">preparing an annual report to be submitted
to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means
of the House of Representatives not later than March 1 of each calendar year,
summarizing the changes to customs regulations, practices, and procedures
adopted by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency during the preceding
calendar year, the public vetting that occurred with respect to each such
change, and the interagency consultation that occurred with respect to each
such change.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe7bf45034d81442a90be7c44598dc43a"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trade
Advocate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner
shall appoint within the Office of Trade, a Trade Advocate, who shall report
directly to the Assistant Commissioner.</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID39a2200f319148488f4138ad8a0f58b4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Trade Advocate shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfeb4b9c604a34f0597f731e95515e911"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serve as the primary liaison between the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the public with respect to the
Agency’s administration of customs facilitation and trade enforcement
functions;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID92c24357e39246a18cd8e4b2e0017852"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serve as a liaison between the Office of
Trade and the Office of Field Operations with respect to the administration of
customs facilitation and trade enforcement functions;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDef8aa43721734cac8cb8ed2e72c8629d"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consult with interested persons in the
private sector, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, and the
Trade Support Network, for their input with respect to the Agency's—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8555BED4710744D394B8A9828474EF7A"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">development and implementation of rules,
regulations, decisions, notices, and abstracts, related to the customs and
trade laws of the United States administered by the Agency;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID31d3cbcd150b485a82a0c199148682ac"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">development of the Joint Strategic Plan
required under section 123A of the Customs and Trade Act of 1990;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID048361fc37384bb18cf39d2885bc71f8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assessment of the effectiveness of customs
facilitation and trade enforcement efforts; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7a6aee818c454dd5b89c2221b7b2e927"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">trade modernization activities, including
the development and implementation of the Automated Commercial Environment
computer system authorized under section 13031(f)(5) of the Consolidated
Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(5)) and support
for the establishment of the International Trade Data System under the
oversight of the Department of the Treasury pursuant to section 411(d) of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1411(d));</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B74355F3E984040AE36F122F327BC0C"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advise the Commissioner with respect to the
consultations described in subparagraph (C); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID10fa0c4b560b4211882122ddf3c1aa9b"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise consult with the public as
directed by the Commissioner or by law.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDafe652fe5c9942c08fb34d9869c5bbab"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Elimination of Office</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6d47a78d47da4deab26de126e040f96c"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and
liabilities of the Office of Trade Relations in the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency to the Office of Trade established pursuant to subsection (a)
of this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6dec954ef59a42f29288f239c83fc86d"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Elimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Office of
Trade Relations in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency shall be
abolished.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3002833afaf14f7b8fa47159fe7b0e07"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds appropriated to the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency or the Department of Homeland Security may be used
to transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and liabilities of the Office of
Trade Relations to an office other than the Office of Trade established
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDee312ea74ee1488ab4b1e75593fbf06d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>5.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of the Customs Facilitation
and Trade Enforcement Division in the Office of Field Operations; Division
personnel</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa1a2e6504cc9406c99ee35533f2e45c4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established within the Office of
Field Operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency a Customs
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Division.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86bb6998972647a6b38b399b52896d5d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appointment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of the Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Division shall be a Deputy Assistant Commissioner, who
shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7A75D872A87451F96250A4A94ED7B39"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be appointed by the Commissioner subject to
the provisions of the civil service laws; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFC75D99F918F463790BC10A46AF2C751"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whose salary shall be fixed in accordance
with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States
Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDba37f8e7a2a14096a0fe2766fedf78d2"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Deputy Assistant
Commissioner shall include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd843481a93614dd8ac1a28f40949f8c8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the customs facilitation and
trade enforcement activities at ports of entry by personnel within the Office
of Field Operations, including the activities of Commercial Enforcement
Officers provided for under subsection (d)(2);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeb58b6ab77fc47cd839e6f5fd7814e39"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the operational training of
personnel within the Office of Field Operations at ports of entry to administer
the customs facilitation and trade enforcement functions of the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd8106639ebad46ae9c8ed295dfbdf30f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluating on a regular basis the
operational effectiveness of the customs facilitation and trade enforcement
activities at ports of entry by personnel of the Office of Field
Operations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID174b761656854c4889f0e06456e10dbf"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing the coordination of customs
facilitation and trade enforcement efforts between the Office of Field
Operations and the Office of Trade established under section 4;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc924d08f49d14155853aebf5fb64c4f5"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consulting regularly with the Trade
Advocate established under section 4(d) with respect to any input received
regarding the customs facilitation and trade enforcement efforts of the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb599452d4391419e9487554371f4003c"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensuring uniform administration and
implementation among ports of entry of new or revised customs and trade laws,
regulations, or policies, related to the customs facilitation and trade
enforcement efforts of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8a9b3ccdc9e545398c4607d92d14cda5"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">implementing the operational provisions of
the Joint Strategic Plan required under section 123A of the Customs and Trade
Act of 1990 related to the customs facilitation and trade enforcement efforts
of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency at ports of entry;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0d0a0b272c1246fab28e6783542d89f9"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensuring the prompt collection of available
data regarding cargo that violates the customs and trade laws of the United
States, and the prompt issuance of Trade Alerts pursuant to section 211 of the
<short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55ccd3bc631e4fafb38ac30f2107bddf"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise overseeing the customs
facilitation and trade enforcement activities of personnel within the Office of
Field Operations at ports of entry, as directed by the Commissioner.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6ac296af08964bd296308cc470d0bc85"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Personnel</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID62bc59bbf8b34f219da66fadf6b3308a"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Headquarters personnel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the Deputy Assistant
Commissioner, the Commissioner shall designate and dedicate not less than 5
full-time equivalent personnel to operate the Customs Facilitation and Trade
Enforcement Division in the Office of Field Operations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4e7d85bf0a774c0cab39e1b2f3f01ee0"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial Enforcement Officers</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0d5bfd2bb8bb4f4aa3f799f3d7d95aca"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than September 30, 2011, the
Commissioner shall designate and dedicate within the Office of Field Operations
not less than 40 Commercial Enforcement Officers.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDebe5280c079f44ebb9562c8bb5803fb8"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assignment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner shall assign the
Commercial Enforcement Officers authorized under this section among the 40
United States ports of entry that experienced the highest volume of trade
during fiscal year 2009.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID663a69b533774a51822d4522b98d2263"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of a Commercial Enforcement
Officer shall be—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9da8966659754e2cb46b72a01308b646"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to supervise all trade enforcement
activities of personnel of the Office of Field Operations at the port of entry
to which the Commercial Enforcement Officer has been assigned;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2bd58f7d14ac4f3d86ebc84bb2755c2d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to coordinate with the Office of Trade all
trade enforcement activities at the port of entry to which the Commercial
Enforcement Officer has been assigned;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID53e834bfefe540c188efa6a639ff5bba"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to direct the training of personnel at the
port of entry to which the Commercial Enforcement Officer has been assigned to
effectuate the trade enforcement activities of the Office of Field Operations;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID38bd6c55cb404615acaae836dad1e1fc"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to otherwise conduct trade enforcement
activities at the port of entry to which the Commercial Enforcement Officer has
been assigned.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID44f884b589394310837d54e55fc31a40" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>6.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of interagency Customs Review
Board</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55b4803f44ae4d2297ca85718898c91a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established an interagency Customs
Review Board.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7cffa3489bc8455b94343887d421e15e"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The interagency Customs Review Board shall
be comprised of the Commissioner, the Assistant Secretary for Policy in the
Department of Homeland Security, the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the
Department of the Treasury, the Under Secretary for International Trade in the
Department of Commerce, and 1 Deputy United States Trade Representative
designated by the United States Trade Representative to serve on the
interagency Customs Review Board. The interagency Customs Review Board shall be
cochaired by the Commissioner and the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the
Department of the Treasury.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9fbf7faada2e49b0a6eb78644660d9f9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency may publicly propose or adopt a proposed change to a customs
regulation, interpretation, or practice, the interagency Customs Review Board
shall review the proposed change to determine if the proposed change conforms
to the international trade obligations of the United
States.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb70b2b67bdea4cd19b74f8cefe67ffe9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5315 of title 5, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49A0A5344C574B60BA17156290B9B1D0"><enum></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>Principal Deputy Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc65bec40231a4a7b805d822a1ee1d0dd" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Separate budget for U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID58d6e94294d546d1b9f77c92f7de0d78"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President shall include in each budget
transmitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, 2
separate budget requests for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E459B39CDD84A24A1F39CCE8F7EE5EA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 for the commercial operations of the
Agency; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03FF85D4E386408191A9DD5DADEC846C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 for the noncommercial operations of the
Agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID367f684cdb584c178d1e9ab84e15cf0d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Repeal</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3D11B45375134CF797C9ED5EAF29CA90"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 414 of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 214) is hereby repealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20E7F4EED7514E719E72061265686FC5"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 is amended by striking the item relating to section 414
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF4A7FF646E6D406B89E313EC3522BAFD" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 414.
Reserved.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID60b702f2140a43adb9e72982d0fdb754" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revolving
fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The matter under the
heading <quote><header-in-text level="appropriations-small" style="OLC">revolving fund, bureau of customs</header-in-text></quote> in the
Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1950 (63 Stat. 360,
chapter 286; 19 U.S.C. 2074), is amended by striking <quote>United States
Customs Service</quote> and inserting <quote>U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD68829E12A5D42D9A7EB3EE357880EF3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advances in foreign countries</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The first section of the Act of May 6, 1939
(53 Stat. 660, chapter 115; 19 U.S.C. 2076), is amended by striking
<quote>United States Customs Service</quote> and inserting <quote>U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency or the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6e4376532a954dc988a8deb73832de88" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advances for enforcement of customs
provisions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2 of the
Act of August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1263, chapter 566; 19 U.S.C. 2077), is amended
to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA6F62884332140178B19BA8EE2804CCD" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID02aa2bd590744af9b6ca2c60f63decda" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advances for enforcement of customs
provisions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, with the approval of the Secretary of Homeland Security
and the Secretary of the Treasury, are each authorized to direct the advance of
funds by the Fiscal Service in the Department of the Treasury, in connection
with the enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States (as
defined in section 2 of the <short-title>Customs
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of
2009</short-title>).</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2bf538e0b3304120bda39f6d6a4ba0f2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification of reason for
advance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3 of the Act
of August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1263, chapter 566; 19 U.S.C. 2078), is amended by
striking <quote>Commissioner of Customs</quote> and inserting
<quote>Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection or the Director of
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3991a88cc5324f7b9b797514de754294" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments in foreign countries; claims for
reimbursement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4 of the
Act of August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1263, chapter 566; 19 U.S.C. 2079), is amended
to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB5D9D414E0F4C88A702CB85FEB64A8B" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0c4b234e002349f8b830053d67b304cf" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>4.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments in foreign countries; claims for
reimbursement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The provisions
of this Act shall not affect payments made for the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency or the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency in
foreign countries, or the right of any officer or employee of such Agencies to
claim reimbursement for personal funds expended in connection with the
enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States (as defined in
section 2 of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of
2009</short-title>).</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc4df88ce502645c6b83c3b0049392e72" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 113 of the Customs and Trade Act of
1990 (19 U.S.C. 2082) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4186D500B451435ABE470F4801CA8AF8" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb4720329449b45a9b59bfb8779b21b80" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>113.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs Administration</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID10d7a9522b1d468a89f426176cd7907e"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement each
shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4363049c2a60472897f3967be46d9e62"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop and implement accounting systems
that accurately determine and report the allocation of the personnel and other
resources of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency among the various operational
functions of each Agency, including merchandise processing and customs and
trade law enforcement; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9126aed1b633402b8ee8ab1dfaa61d21"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop and implement periodic labor
distribution surveys of major workforce activities within the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency to determine the cost of the various operational functions of each
Agency and the extent to which the costs of one Agency are covered by the other
Agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5df3cf1aa06e47eca6ba4f828550211a"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Survey
reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement shall each, not later than June 30, 2010, submit to the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives a report on the results of the first surveys
implemented under paragraph (2) of subsection
(a).</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID435f1750efc2418c903db7c99896b809" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Personnel</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAE98A7534E1246DE812C2F969B89504E"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) of section 401 of the
Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 115(a)) is
amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3F98271DB7894E7EA0B37D25B7BA43C1" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID632b5c9d037f4cac871befb758745ace"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Director of Trade Policy</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4081e270d14d404e81b8670c32cf75fe"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be in the Office of Policy and
Planning of the Department of Homeland Security a Director of Trade Policy, who
shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1702ace432df411e8326677e4a7e980d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate with the Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection to ensure that the economic security interests of
the United States associated with international trade are considered in the
development and implementation of policies within the Department of Homeland
Security; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1f6d7865c70f417eafa581713cd2d383"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the Committee on Finance of the
Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, not
later than December 15 of each year, a report describing how the Department of
Homeland Security accounted for the economic security interests of the United
States associated with international trade in developing and implementing
policies during the preceding fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb511a479bfa8493d89863c08342eda37"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of Trade Policy shall have
significant experience in the development, operation, or administration of
United States trade policy, and shall be compensated at a rate of pay that is
not less than the rate of pay for grade 14 of the General Schedule under
section 5332 of title 5, United States
Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDadd833359bbf441bbda38b9d41c960c8"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New personnel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (c) of section 412 of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (16 U.S.C. 212(c)) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id823CCF6C483C40B2B8A9F4E232433F1A" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id250E1AD9857B453FBFD86685DAF25A1E"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New personnel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>, the Secretary of
the Treasury shall designate and dedicate not less than 5 full-time equivalent
personnel to work exclusively with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax, Trade, and Tariff Policy in the performance and oversight of
customs revenue
functions.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDec5d7f2c928843669a67b4d5b57adbf1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaff4eda407334955a6c2710bb4fb6091"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301 of the Customs Procedural
Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 (19 U.S.C. 2075) is amended by
redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i) and by striking subsections (a)
through (g) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52BBB7467E95478D8A6437A54719A347" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9c922f93584847f7b9685a1309c0abbb"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0C58ACA4586D4481BF0A43016362C3E0"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal years beginning October 1,
2009</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the fiscal year
beginning October 1, 2009, and each fiscal year thereafter, there are
authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency only such sums as may hereafter be
authorized by law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6fdc4a84c23b405888b6156bc5d61698"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement for authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authorization of the appropriations for
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency for each fiscal year after fiscal
year 2009 shall specify—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0e53d0bdaabf4651be4a3f863a463ec5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount authorized for the fiscal year
for the salaries and expenses of the Agency in conducting commercial
operations; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa3382394104e4bd6833403b9dd2791ae"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount authorized for the fiscal year
for the salaries and expenses of the Agency for other than commercial
operations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfdba0d36c07b4ebb8a2b90dfb8ee38bf"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated for the salaries and expenses of the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency that are incurred in commercial operations such
sums as are necessary for fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID19083fb0805a4b8bb05958f6fd5f3bb5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs user fee account</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The monies authorized to be appropriated
pursuant to subsection (b) for any fiscal year, except for such sums as may be
necessary for the salaries and expenses of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency that are incurred in connection with the processing of
merchandise that is exempt from the fees imposed pursuant to section 13031(a)
(9) and (10) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19
U.S.C. 58c(a) (9) and (10)) shall be appropriated from the Customs User Fee
Account.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe91962539fc54e5d8dad37b2cbe4827c"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mandatory 10-Day deferment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No part of the funds appropriated under
subsection (a) for any fiscal year may be used to provide less time for the
collection of estimated duties than the 10-day deferment procedure in effect on
January 1, 1981.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9c256fea37c84011b1c9feed2ee3d6e6"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Overtime pay limitations;
waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No part of the funds
appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) for any fiscal year may be used for
administrative expenses to pay any employee of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency overtime pay in an amount exceeding $35,000 unless the
Secretary of Homeland Security, or the designee of the Secretary, determines on
an individual basis that payment of overtime pay to such employee in an amount
exceeding $35,000 is necessary for national security purposes, to prevent
excessive costs, or to meet emergency requirements of the Agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7663518f9b8d4a4aab9429a65e5222f2"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pay comparability
authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the fiscal
year beginning October 1, 2009, and for each fiscal year thereafter, there are
authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for
salaries of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency such additional sums
as may be provided by law to reflect pay rate changes made in accordance with
the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Public Law 91–656; 84 Stat.
1946).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID157846ea003d4abdb80df8c045ae1231"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of savings resulting from
administrative consolidations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If savings in salaries and expenses result
from the consolidation of administrative functions within the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall apply the savings, to the extent the savings are not needed to
meet emergency requirements of the Agency, to strengthening the commercial
operations of the Agency by increasing the number of personnel dedicated to
administering customs revenue functions.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc72a23aa18864fceb7df82ce228eadf1"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocation of resources; report to
congressional committees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall notify the Committee
on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives at least 180 days prior to taking any action that would—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb7c949d51815401ab5994384e7df6e08"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">result in any significant reduction in
force of employees of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency other than
by means of attrition;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfab5cdd54f1947d4b9d71394f3b7a783"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">result in any significant reduction in
hours of operation or services rendered at any office of the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency or any United States port of entry;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID717d821fa54246018fd5323537834bb9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eliminate or relocate any office of the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc5f87921f0f24215a4c26853e172cc1b"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eliminate any United States port of entry;
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfd779549e793485fb228967741001908"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">significantly reduce the number of
employees assigned to any office or any function of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection
Agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5774c73dd1334e89b5b1df0a74afc2ee"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Resource optimization model</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (i) of section 301 of the
Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978, as redesignated by
subsection (a), is amended by striking <quote>Resource Allocation Model</quote>
each place it appears in the text and in the heading and inserting
<quote>Resource Optimization Model</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdfa69d0e239849a29120b8fde76ab2c1"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID702eaf9874354212ac616a74b73b4ab5"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (c) of section 5 of the Act of
February 13, 1911 (19 U.S.C. 267(c)), is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6753F7CE2BE749438B7490FB9EDE91C7" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDed6fa6b93bc845aabcd1794c64148462"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitations</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe625a7f2dba44881bb169d13cd768be4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal year cap</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The aggregate of overtime pay under
subsection (a) of this section (including commuting compensation under
subsection (a)(2)(B) of this section) and premium pay under subsection (b) of
this section that an employee of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be
paid in any fiscal year may not exceed $35,000 unless the Secretary of Homeland
Security, or the designee of the Secretary, determines on an individual basis
that payment of overtime pay to such employee in an amount exceeding $35,000 is
necessary for national security purposes, to prevent excessive costs, or to
meet emergency requirements of the Agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID974f21db7f1049f6bd88844e6a47627e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exclusivity of pay under this
Section</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An employee of the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency who receives overtime pay under
subsection (a) of this section, or premium pay under subsection (b) of this
section for time worked, may not receive pay or other compensation for that
work under any other provision of
law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID533f0a0a7abb4dbca770cf2b28de24ce"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Basic pay</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8331(3)(G) of title 5, United
States Code, is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7b4fdf1e3b84442b913be18f1a5d40f4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>a customs
officer</quote> and inserting <quote>employee of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe16b6905414e4d5bb48d342e7afe980a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>customs officers</quote>
and inserting <quote>such employees</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="idCB6562CCA0D74271879EA3190F5976AA" level-type="subsequent"><enum>B</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Investigative functions</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb4185b3f6d1f4712aed28aeefdd266d0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>121.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Agency</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc3f5b74d5dad4e6fb0aba3d688fd11a1"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 442 of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 252) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE9426C97C2C437BBE21682A304D6F87" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDea4a258a9a73497f9fcd52beadbc5fa6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>442.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of agency; director</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7fa6c08e67194dbf82bba55758f77a5d"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be in the Department of
Homeland Security an agency to be known as the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idECF7D14C3CD94D2CA506217BE2AB0837"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Director</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFEB0370526844DC68DAAE87865B14ACB"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency shall be a Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, who shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD83C852F3B7E416C9EAA1494E4BF2224"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be appointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc93093f974a34925acaaa6f0405187c3"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carry out the duties and powers described
in subsection (c), prescribed by law, and prescribed by the Secretary of
Homeland Security;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcd1048654d1d44b18256143b087c71b0"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report directly to the Deputy Secretary of
Homeland Security;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6EB2064556694FF7A4FBA9E473804284"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have a minimum of 5 years professional
experience in law enforcement, and a minimum of 5 years of management
experience; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8207e6e0f5b24b9fb653e160b5e5b23e"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advise the Secretary with respect to any
policy or operation of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency that
may affect the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services established under
subtitle E (redesignated as the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services),
including potentially conflicting policies or operations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDafc28935a7864b5994494561d4cf8c5f"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Committee referral</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate, any nomination for Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement shall be referred to the Committee on Finance. If the Committee on
Finance has not reported such nomination at the close of the 30th day after its
referral to such Committee, the Committee shall be automatically discharged
from further consideration of such nomination and such nomination shall be
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90AA3C5726084BB49947DE01050F857E"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties of Director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Director shall
include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbb9a77b0efff4844b9f6d4600b9eb549"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establishing and overseeing the
administration of policies with respect to functions—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFE2A22BE1CAB432DB37E973AF3759CA7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">performed under the detention and removal
program, the intelligence program, and the investigations program that were
transferred to the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security by
section 441 of this Act and delegated to the Assistant Secretary for
Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the day before the date of the enactment
of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade
Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID03340c6e56014d9db38da5bc10207bbe"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise vested in the Assistant Secretary
on the day before the date of the enactment of the
<short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID58aa456a5936469687235e31363fa7d0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advising the Secretary of Homeland Security
with respect to any policy or operation of the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency that may affect the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services established under subtitle E, including potentially conflicting
policies and operations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8bc2ee0cd39d4a4a80b169d0b59d3baa"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conducting investigations of violations of
the customs and trade laws of the United States (as that term is defined in
section 2 of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>), including
investigations of violations of laws that protect intellectual property rights
or prohibit the importation of goods that pose a threat to the health or safety
of consumers in the United States; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf58ea17c103c45c49392ab590a4ac090"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating with the Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection to ensure the development and implementation of
the Joint Strategic Plan required under section 123A of the Customs and Trade
Act of 1990.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe1f4f86267fd4e7baa4a2d1214bb0dee"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deputy director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security is
authorized to appoint, in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
established by subsection (a), 1 Deputy Director. Such appointment shall be
subject to the provisions of the civil service laws and the salary shall be
fixed in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title
5, United States Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1d8c9784d79840afa7f30d64df10bfbb"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Absence or disability of director or deputy
director</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id051D55C2E60044BE952812D522121A55"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security is
authorized to designate an officer of the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency to serve as Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, during the absence or disability of the Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or in the event that there is no Director
of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4CADBC12D26842D88FA4E350B23C9EB3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deputy director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security is
authorized to designate an officer of the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency to serve as Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, during the absence or disability of the Deputy Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or in the event that there is no Deputy
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74DEB295865244B8AA64CB9DA1A6516B"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional officers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security may
appoint such officers as are necessary to manage the individual offices within
the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Appointments under this
paragraph shall be subject to the provisions of the civil service laws, and the
salaries shall be fixed in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of
chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID382317fd442440958fd860b8c9f27113"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties of personnel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The personnel of the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency shall conduct and prosecute investigations for the
enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States, and perform
such other duties as are prescribed by law or by the Secretary of Homeland
Security.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID72a2da7315e84cddb102102661e753f2"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program To Collect information relating to
foreign students</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director
of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency shall be responsible for
administering the program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant
foreign students and other exchange program participants described in section
641 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
(8 U.S.C. 1372), including the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System
established under that section, and shall use such information to carry out the
enforcement functions of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5f5e99eda1c2449ab8ee8e529e3989bb"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chief of policy and strategy</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5b8637086ed94d73b6f8c532f680d0a1"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be a position of Chief of
Policy and Strategy for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7e17ff429dc24c7a82adc875d337b711"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In consultation with personnel in local
offices of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, the Chief of
Policy and Strategy shall be responsible for—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa675bc69de7b4fda9b12bd65f6b02055"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">making policy recommendations and
performing policy research and analysis on immigration enforcement issues;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb759cbccf3c4470396f1e6313c72acca"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating immigration policy issues with
the Chief of Policy and Strategy for the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration
Services established under subtitle E, as appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20189d86c20d47359020e5a8933bb26d"><enum>(j)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Legal advisor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be a principal legal advisor to
the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The legal advisor
shall provide specialized legal advice to the Director of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement and shall represent the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency in all exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings
before the Executive Office for Immigration
Review.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9fe9d86627324f2ea26acfe29a1838ae"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compensation</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc5f0ae8b6c0244e5928e9efb6b2a80e5"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5315 of title 5, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A43F6B1DF6A4E7487FD74A9CE621BB5"><enum></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4de965eafc4d45eebe17780ec914bdff"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Continuation in office</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The individual serving as Assistant
Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland
Security on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act may serve as
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement until the earlier
of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID87757db7b1074bd7941b60cab90182c0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date on which such individual is no
longer eligible to serve as Assistant Secretary; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe1f5806b259c405eb150b9efca87f515"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date on which a person nominated by the
President to be the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is
confirmed by the Senate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB806F4BC17494E61A7DD5E37E4E3F321"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reference</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On and after the effective date of this
Act, any reference to the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security, shall be deemed to be a
reference to the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf7dd3fa53e1b4ae59bbb1a4cca9beb0a"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDace74d6b71d448aba0155dbca373560a"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle D</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The heading for subtitle D of title IV of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by striking the matter preceding
section 441 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id036338347DBD4B0DBD5015AC8F0D5835" style="OLC">
<subtitle commented="no" id="idC02BD51884994FE6B815F70EE2D26950" level-type="subsequent"><enum>D</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enforcement
functions</header>
</subtitle><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcaf72a5ecfb04b8096f3c5f0a2bd61e1"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa2464c1b19564495932d2c6c3c3d26dc"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the item relating to section
442 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd3b18fb8-4c44-4470-8b76-ee74e72098d5" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="IDea4a258a9a73497f9fcd52beadbc5fa6" level="section">Sec. 442. Establishment of Agency;
Director.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
<continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">and</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae55c32b7fd648f5aeb013844ca48037"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the item relating to subtitle D
of title IV and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4504d6c-99a7-4667-a51b-3c90e84b9902" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idC02BD51884994FE6B815F70EE2D26950" level="subtitle">Subtitle D—Enforcement
functions</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdb9a80bc24244d2783a36607f400e124"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Director of the bureau of citizenship and
immigration services</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
451(a)(2)(C) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 271(a)(2)(C)) is
amended by striking <quote>Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Border
Security</quote> and inserting <quote>Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE1BF7C80D4E44D4585CAD4C1854C0533" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>122.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Separate budget for U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
President shall include in each budget transmitted to Congress under section
1105 of title 31, United States Code, a separate budget request for the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE4EA075973E34614A2719EC8BC351526"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 for the customs operations of the Agency;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDC02977D3B3444F3A26F51A82A41684E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">1 for the operations of the Agency other
than customs operations.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2c746c0021c4ecb945b603a4d42cf2a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>123.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Undercover investigative
operations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3131 of the
Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 (19 U.S.C. 2081) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id983D4654EF144AACA92B71203781955F" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe8951b83d182427d91963481f25db1c2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>3131.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Undercover Investigative Operations of the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID74ab928dc31c440689448fd1f31c0046"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification required for exemption of
undercover operations from certain laws</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to any undercover
investigative operation of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
(in this section referred to as the <quote>Agency</quote>) that is necessary
for the detection and prosecution of offenses against the United States that
are within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Homeland Security—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID050f427c54c641a2a50c894bec03969b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sums authorized to be appropriated may be
used—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe3f70bc13b5947b1baeb935232237833"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to purchase property, buildings, and other
facilities, and to lease space, within the United States, the District of
Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States without
regard to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbf52288835ac49649ca8e36125f80dab"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sections 1341 and 3342 of title 31, United
States Code;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd20275a9025547ebaa990a9202e73137"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sections 3732(a) and 3741 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C. 11(a) and 22);</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7bd9e20eba2445279042cc4f50ae7886"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 8141 of title 40, United States
Code; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbaba9c1ca2ea4dc9b0592b0bb9453b4d"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sections 304(a) and 305 of the Federal
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 254(a) and 255);
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd6e7e6f8682c4f5b98915500839757de"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish or to acquire proprietary
corporations or business entities as part of the undercover operation, and to
operate such corporations or business entities without regard to sections 9102
and 9103 of title 31, United States Code;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9e33f848420a4763853dac2aa03a230e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sums authorized to be appropriated for the
Agency and the proceeds from the undercover operation, may be deposited in
banks or other financial institutions without regard to the provisions of
section 648 of title 18 and section 3302 of title 31, United States Code;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7e2a607bb6b940a1af0ff609183d562d"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the proceeds from the undercover operation
may be used to offset necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in such
operation without regard to the provision of section 3302 of title 31, United
States Code;</text>
</paragraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subsection">only upon written certification of
the Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (or, if
designated by the Director, such other officer within the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency) that any action authorized by paragraph (1), (2),
or (3) of this subsection is necessary for the conduct of such undercover
operation.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDda05f13e41fd43c7a4035704f3311f03"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Liquidation of corporations and business
entities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a corporation or
business entity established or acquired as part of an undercover operation
under subsection (a)(1)(B) of this section with a net value over $50,000 is to
be liquidated, sold, or otherwise disposed of, the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency, as much in advance as the Director (or, if designated by
the Director, such other officer within the Agency) determines is practicable,
shall report the circumstances to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the
Secretary of the Treasury. The proceeds of the liquidation, sale, or other
disposition, after obligations are met, shall be deposited in the Treasury of
the United States as miscellaneous receipts.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4132dc0c07ae49bbb7b6e6be250e6c2c"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deposits of proceeds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As soon as the proceeds from an undercover
investigative operation with respect to which an action is authorized and
carried out under paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) of this section are
no longer necessary for the conduct of such operation, such proceeds, or the
balance of such proceeds remaining at the time, shall be deposited into the
Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd82a90b57af54e7dbe3b75d8052e5bb2"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Audits</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDba7c2d8f42e941ebae27e7a1a9f8943e"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0a5415520a3d4a0eaad926b1eb5bff06"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct a detailed financial audit of each
undercover investigative operation that is closed in each fiscal year;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID70cea0faeb124831821226fbb5c62f23"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit the results of the audit in writing
to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of the Treasury;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2e609b9e7894879b9b8f44f3cf89047"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than 180 days after such
undercover operation is closed, submit a report to the Congress concerning such
audit.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8bed128e20434511b88da3b654c7450e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall also submit a report
annually to the Congress specifying with respect to the Agency's undercover
investigative operations—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6ec1fca5a7b846cd81a549955cc74fb5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number, by program, of undercover
investigative operations pending at the end of the 1-year period for which such
report is submitted;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4663f07920ba4050a2e29f19444bfdf4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number, by program, of undercover
investigative operations commenced in the 1-year period preceding the period
for which such report is submitted; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf11211952bb045469b2e08f8bcbc1dbc"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number, by program, of undercover
investigative operations closed in the 1-year period preceding the period for
which such report is submitted and, with respect to each such closed undercover
operation, the results obtained and any civil claims made with respect
thereto.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd14b3e44316b4b4ca63af741ac9f13f6"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subsection (d), the
following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbb0eb7b1568c487e9395869fcc10c937"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Closed</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>closed</term> refers to the
earliest point in time at which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDca07b160982a49ee86f6d61beb0a91d5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all criminal proceedings (other than
appeals) are concluded; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdd848a3682b14e6c8eee3954a554e6b1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">covert activities are concluded, whichever
occurs later.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb8ac530fdc184bd8a3d4be178809953a"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Employees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>employees</term> means
employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, as defined in
section 2105 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcc087c90c3624a808a21a4d6a68a799f"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Undercover investigative operation;
undercover operation</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID35e31b842ac64571a78be82679c54fb1"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>undercover investigative
operation</term> and <term>undercover operation</term> mean any undercover
investigative operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDda893ce626574e9184c5e9c8f2f02758"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in which—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7d96164cc1e747aebf105bce91531117"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the gross receipts (excluding interest
earned) exceed $50,000; or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b5e03f86fa745f6a9546c7e0598f61f"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expenditures (other than expenditures for
salaries of employees) exceed $150,000; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8b027cec22b445a5a7a92050d6e912db"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">which is exempt from section 3302 or 9102
of title 31, United States Code.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc368037e56cd4c79a6f48ca407e962cc"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A)
shall not apply with respect to the report required under paragraph (2) of
subsection (d) of this
section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID523b201a0aa34c5e9cbf55b0ec32c96a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>124.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of
the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 (19 U.S.C. 2075)
is amended by inserting after section 301 the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B942DFF217241A59454E9A4317DF421" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDB77D7E763F3407DB7ECF0F368DF687C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations for certain
Customs enforcement activities</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID959d707238c8454a902b6ccccbd2baa5"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8736F8E5A87D41FDA0B40CAA2C2199C4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiscal years beginning on or after October
1, 2009</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the fiscal year
beginning October 1, 2009, and each fiscal year thereafter, there are
authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency only such sums as may hereafter
be authorized by law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0873e43a88424f7687fa1e8aac690c70"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Specification of amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authorization of the appropriations for
the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency for each fiscal year after
fiscal year 2009 shall specify—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf7a4447332a64007b44900086212b0bd"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount authorized for the fiscal year
for the salaries and expenses of the Agency in conducting customs operations;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6505237fe9c744bf9cc41bc969c1e0ec"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount authorized for the fiscal year
for the salaries and expenses of the Agency for other than customs
operations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID998ddf9fc35f4ae787ca6719a51befa2"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated for the salaries and expenses of the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency that are incurred in customs
operations such sums as are necessary for fiscal years 2010, 2011, and
2012.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="idACEC910071544256B128A3852150443B" level-type="subsequent"><enum>C</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint Strategic Plan</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1d60d2702c474473a9bf838f2dae8ed8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>131.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint Strategic Plan</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id29242617788E4F9F9E33E0D52838C0EF"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title I of the Customs and Trade Act of
1990 (Public Law 101–382; 104 Stat. 629) is amended by inserting after section
123, the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8EBB85A5EEBD4B7EAB5E96B3BDDC7DC4" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD9482DA1F86E42118A36FFDC14736D0A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>123A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint Strategic Plan</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe995c2f0aa2049c7b266a7cb3953e893"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than June 30, 2010, and every 2
years thereafter, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and
the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall jointly develop
and submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Representatives, a Joint Strategic Plan.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeb14a3de2f8e4a56bc7af76de3969b24"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Joint Strategic Plan required under
this section shall be comprised of a comprehensive multiyear plan for enforcing
the customs and trade laws of the United States (as defined in section 2(2) of
the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade
Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>) and for facilitating the
international trade of the United States, and shall include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8b07f0166ebb4d06957e4d8a5f0e5b90"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a summary of actions taken to date to
better enforce the customs and trade laws of the United States and to better
facilitate the international trade of the United States, including a
description and analysis of specific performance measures to evaluate the
progress of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency in meeting each such
responsibility;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaa2ee21ce1d74beab02a9954e6d29c5d"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a statement of objectives and plans for
further improving the enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United
States and the facilitation of the international trade of the United
States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf514a9860de64a2fa9a9460a02d1f23f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a specific identification of priority trade
issues that pose a high risk to public health and safety or to the public fisc,
and a description of strategies and plans for addressing each such risk;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID88e16c020c904ce5904f69d7c9ffbc89"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of efforts made to improve
consultation and coordination among Federal agencies, and in particular between
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency, regarding the enforcement of the customs and trade
laws of the United States and the facilitation of the international trade of
the United States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf51b88c0dca5414fa734087187e6a24d"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the training that has
occurred to date within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to improve the enforcement of
the customs and trade laws of the United States and the facilitation of the
international trade of the United States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5bda7926308247a0a7b5e875e00aa09a"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a specific identification of any domestic
or international best practices that may further improve the enforcement of the
customs and trade laws of the United States and the facilitation of the
international trade of the United States; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaac224137a4c4d18b4ae162c21fbdd0c"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any legislative recommendations to further
improve the enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States or
the facilitation of the international trade of the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf10863a5490042078357c032898d37b9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultations</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8677163b2e0f4fafbd47b96f65da27b3"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In developing the Joint Strategic Plan
required under this section, the Commissioner and the Director shall consult
with—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa007e11bd237497182af0c28a1cc4843"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">appropriate officials from the relevant
Federal departments and agencies, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0f5ee5419e244e7daefc636f9648cd54"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of the Treasury;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1cd57e4dc0d44b0a9a45f62b48099e5f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Agriculture;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd6d6119129564cca9e79599bef993aa5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Commerce;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6dc1a81ff8cc412da123dc08809ad469"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Justice;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID187b02d9485542b5bbea580b42b95594"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of the Interior;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID50f150c2a59e495e8a5fb720b71a3648"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Health and Human
Services;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf7335ad350ce45188fd4962b175e1f9d"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Food and Drug Administration;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2c25ccffa5774ee0830add3ff76506f5"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Product Safety Commission;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID836b21d5781d43dfb7a9ceac77a7e061"><enum>(ix)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Office of the United States Trade
Representative; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID389c3331ce724d16b9f1c57cec91305a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory
Committee and the Trade Support Network.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd388c1bee770412a95f9ab405ca40a3e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other consultations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In developing the Joint Strategic Plan
required under this section, the Commissioner and the Director shall seek to
consult with—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa9bc76d53fe34d4d920cdf61f4ec0db3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">appropriate officials from relevant foreign
law enforcement agencies and international organizations, including the World
Customs Organization; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID47ee66b530b54c039f029eb43c95171e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">private sector entities as defined in
section 2(4) of the <short-title>Customs Facilitation and
Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of
2009</short-title>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90A40FF44B53433589B0005E687EA607"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming Amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for the Customs and
Trade Act of 1990 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section
123, the following new item:</text>
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section"><quote>Sec. 123A. Joint
Strategic Plan.</quote>.</toc-entry>
</toc>
</subsection></section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs facilitation, trade enforcement,
and transparency</header>
<subtitle commented="no" id="id191685D890A94DC6BD1F309C1BEC845C" level-type="subsequent"><enum>A</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs facilitation and
transparency</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id303E4328949A4B67AD774EB53C66ED79" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trade benefits under the Customs-Trade
Partnership Against Terrorism</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb3291e51420d4b6085d81bae37105f59"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting
through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and in
consultation with the entities specified in subsection (b), shall develop and
implement additional trade benefits to be provided to Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier
3 participants in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism under
subtitle B of title II of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of
2006 (6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20f54d3f89534414b29d7c2e3d90f011"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Entities specified</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The entities specified in this subsection
are—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID40d5f033b7b647fdbfb1db9789aa722c"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory
Committee established under section 204;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60E0AA2DE89D41D493F7B036286929BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Trade Support Network;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1E8AFBF046F4F28A899D923AAFFF66D"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Finance of the Senate;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4BBE56CC7A214AB9BC5C9EAAF04B0077"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF43A4B8C45564E1680E5F0477A0DA446"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCB551828F1554274AB08FBA5A406BA03"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2010, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate
and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a
report—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4b6a313748a149bea2a6b0a2d5a5f14b"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describing the trade benefits provided to
Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 participants in the Customs-Trade Partnership
Against Terrorism as of the date on which the report is submitted; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID60d06b232e8a43548380cb6269c46a09"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describing the additional trade benefits
developed under subsection (a) that have not been implemented as of the date on
which the report is submitted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc7e013dc97084fe3a3671b99d32e9dff"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Progress report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2011, and
December 31, 2012, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Finance of
the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives
a report on the progress made in providing the additional trade benefits
developed under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5dfed35ed5c14449b00e3cff6aa63ed7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs Facilitation Partnership
Program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title IV of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C04E730829C4C69852A961160893E4E" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id588D0636DC20492E87FAF1CF56AB9C7C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>499A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Customs Facilitation Partnership
Program</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID50a7e79d547d4524b41a71efc9da9822"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfaa5531d95094662bb65d3cf29b8c47c"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall establish a voluntary government-private sector program to be
known as the <quote>Customs Facilitation Partnership Program</quote> (in this
section referred to as the <quote>Partnership Program</quote>) to facilitate
the entry of merchandise into the United States and to provide benefits
described in paragraph (3) to persons described in paragraph (2) that meet or
exceed the requirements of the Partnership Program established under subsection
(b)(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7E1A4EF50720488BAE0128BE3196FBDF"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Persons described</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Persons described in this paragraph are
persons involved in the entry of merchandise into the United States, including
intermodal transportation system providers, contract logistics providers, air,
land, and sea carriers, customs brokers, importers, and forwarders.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5022447ac86d4583aa5185501a3081c5"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Benefits described</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB98EDED5A11D4D21AE8DFB5622DB6FF2"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The benefits described in this paragraph
are such benefits as the Commissioner considers appropriate for the purpose of
facilitating the entry of merchandise into the United States, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf3a08d18115c43d69f530dc0442ed47c"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">taking into account the participation of
persons in the Partnership Program in assessing the risk posed by such persons
for the purposes of commercial risk assessment targeting under section 211;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1dd105617a834d68b2ec388a6f34f748"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the extent practicable, giving priority
to persons participating in the Partnership Program with respect to the
clearance of merchandise during activities to resume trade after an incident in
which merchandise entering the United States was found to pose a threat to the
health or safety of consumers in the United States.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7E2DB9D3931F429C95871726D18A77B5"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In developing benefits under subparagraph
(A) to be provided to persons participating in the Partnership Program, the
Commissioner shall consult with the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory
Committee established under section 204 of the
<short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC65B688E6B784E31817AE7198C7D5AFA"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application for participation</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36e3a5262c384a908578ed2a9c0edc95"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall establish procedures in accordance with this subsection for
persons described in subsection (a)(2) to apply to participate in the
Partnership Program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6ea6bdf7519f4c7f82be59428d10dc0c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum requirements</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69BE3992EA1A45418F41A1604F625024"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner shall establish minimum
requirements for participation in the Partnership Program.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA741E9247BD741BD97C500DC0274DEE2"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Specific considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining whether a person meets the
minimum requirements for participation in the Partnership Program, the
following shall be considered:</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID29174afe40cf4f09a61659b467e6149a"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The person’s history of entering
merchandise into the United States.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe04aa37070f4404bb48282fbd38aa4a8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The persons’s history of compliance with
the customs and trade laws of the United States (as defined in section 2 of the
<short-title>Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>), including—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7821FBD34E94EC3968E6C63D14D19C6"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">properly maintaining importer of record
numbers;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD446E26AA2BD40E89AF5A51F194D90F4"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">properly maintaining customs bonds as
required by law; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70C6564EF2A241C7A51568A8AAACD631"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">promptly responding to requests from the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency for information or notices of action,
liquidated damages, or civil penalties.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID17d10ed9bacd490886158ec9b645f01b"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification and verification of
applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person who
applies to participate in the Partnership Program may participate in the
Partnership Program after the Commissioner—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3947a22a90a841b88d21915c00d15188"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">certifies the person as complying with the
requirements established under paragraph (2); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1c99e952397e4a18ba394b0937442cec"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">verifies the information contained in the
person's application pursuant to paragraph (4).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd3347e7ac7da413b9c08ffcdc76cc404"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Verification of applications</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe90f4cf2a891463eafab65eb848289a7"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner shall establish procedures
for verifying the information contained in applications for participation in
the Partnership Program. The verification of such information may include a
document review or any other verification method that the Commissioner
determines to be necessary.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6362BB0D4B6B4546AE47A64247DE3FD2"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Timing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent practicable, the Commissioner
shall verify the information contained in an application for participation in
the Partnership Program not later than 90 days after receiving the
application.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8F757FC0B65E4A6898B2F7EE2BBD54D2"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reverifications; maintenance of
eligibility</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc47907e111b7423cb3fecfc65b31749e"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reverification of
participants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner
of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall establish—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0f34b48a6e6243a29c63551c1a7b23ea"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a process for reverifying that persons
participating in the Partnership Program continue to meet the requirements
established under subsection (b)(2); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbbc47826b4344e33975e7892c644b2d6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a process by which persons participating in
the Partnership Program are selected for reverification—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFE43CDF08C684FCCBC5B0B06C9175202"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">based on an assessment of the risk posed by
such persons; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDA05077CB8D472BB99C20C476860D8D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">using random sampling.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd8bbb2d47687405a99dfde0c175b0d5b"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consequences for lack of
compliance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the
Commissioner determines, in conducting a reverification under paragraph (1) of
a person participating in the Partnership Program, that the person fails to
meet the requirements for participation in the Partnership Program established
under subsection (b)(2), or if the Commissioner is unable to reverify that the
person meets those requirements, the Commissioner may suspend all or some of
the benefits provided to the person under the Partnership Program until the
Commissioner is able to reverify that the person meets those
requirements.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5f62543e127c473dab6de78a5aa3af54"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">False or misleading
information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a person
participating in the Partnership Program intentionally provides false or
misleading information to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection in the application submitted under subsection (b)(1), during the
verification process under subsection (b)(4), or during the reverification
process under subsection (c), the Commissioner shall, in addition to any other
penalty provided by law—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4782F575539549F6B01F850C6D784437"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">deny to the person the benefits provided to
the person under the Partnership Program; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF7B00994217849A7966F4BF33BDA5E82"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prohibit the person from further
participation in the Partnership Program.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3396570553d44708bc04d2da7dd8e09f"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appeals</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB9563037A435463785AFC46D7760F924"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCCAEA3BC0C8A4DA8A55044DC5B136094"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appeals of denials of
application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person who
submits an application under subsection (b)(1) to participate in the
Partnership Program may appeal a decision of the Commissioner of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection denying participation in the Partnership Program under
subsection (b)(3).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEF74E5B0390742EC8BF53A309512EC78"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appeals of denials of benefits or
suspensions of participation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person who participates in the
Partnership Program may appeal a decision of the Commissioner denying or
suspending benefits provided to the person under the Partnership Program under
subsection (c) or (d) or prohibiting the person from further participation in
the Partnership Program under subsection (d).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id906801CC985E4F28B70232D3F2E17760"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Filing of appeal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person who files an appeal under
paragraph (1) shall file the appeal with the Commissioner not later than 90
days after the date on which the person receives notice of the decision of the
Commissioner being appealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4029291D6EF74442B635DC17E7AC5FC9"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Final determination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner shall make a final
determination with respect to an appeal under paragraph (1) not later than 180
days after the date on which the appeal is filed under paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2218CCD3F8A64E859276292A9772A0F0"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID18fda270f8534f899565420ffb76bd5c"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Staffing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall designate, train, and maintain not fewer than 7 full-time
equivalent personnel in the Office of Trade of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency to administer the Partnership Program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID686a3a38cd554d55beb127dcf15e1aae"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Confidential information
safeguards</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner,
in consultation with the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
established under section 204 of the <short-title>Customs
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009</short-title>,
shall establish procedures to safeguard confidential data collected, stored, or
shared with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency or any other Federal
agency during the verification process under subsection (b)(4) or the
reverification process under subsection (c)(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc08ee266507d4a448c642dca69d2a59a"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the
provisions of this
section.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID49e95312a4864d17916d30e8c908a89a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultations with respect to mutual
recognition agreements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not
later than 30 days before entering into a Mutual Recognition Arrangement or
similar agreement between the United States and a foreign government providing
for mutual recognition of supply chain security programs, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall consult with the Committee on Finance of the Senate and
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9FB9EB2678CF4401A9A0324CC2E32DC0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial Customs Operations Advisory
Committee</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2b42da58be34930b56a00bc6fa59fd5"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than June 30, 2010, the Secretary
of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly establish
a Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (in this section referred to
as the <quote>Advisory Committee</quote>).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe6cdb524abd64c01979271c808f617f5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID33d8b2634056414a86829f732b4027c6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Advisory Committee shall be comprised
of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77A9B53AFC984AAF8B62049BDA4B47F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">20 individuals appointed under paragraph
(2);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDEA05E40B4E247C8A6A30580DB30E9AC"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy of
the Department of the Treasury and the Assistant Secretary of Policy and
Planning of the Department of Homeland Security, who shall jointly co-chair
meetings of the Advisory Committee; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID054d3c3b8bc74976b51281bf74c0143c"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who
shall serve as deputy co-chairs of meetings of the Advisory Committee.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB561AABED38E476FBE1B8F971C65A85C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appointment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than June 30, 2010, the Secretary
of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly appoint 20
individuals from the private sector to the Advisory Committee, not more than 10
of whom shall be of the same political party. Each individual shall be
appointed to the Advisory Committee for a term of up to 4 years, and may be
reappointed to subsequent terms but may not serve more than 2 terms
sequentially.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFE887824EA3544FCA702D3CB63FE72EB"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The individuals appointed to the Advisory
Committee shall be broadly representative of the sectors of the United States
economy affected by the commercial operations of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA8DAD7819CCC4B2FAD1D0AABCAD12CB1"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of membership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury and the
Secretary of Homeland Security may transfer members serving on the Advisory
Committee on Commercial Operations of the United States Customs Service
established under section 9503(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1987 (19 U.S.C. 2071 note) on the day before the date of the enactment of this
Act to the Advisory Committee established under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0a237ed51e9a49bc93830bdb04f61c6d"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Advisory Committee established under
subsection (a) shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID02863fd1c8a54bb693910177153e45dd"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advise the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Secretary of Homeland Security on all matters involving the commercial
operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, including advising with respect to
significant changes that are proposed with respect to agency regulations,
policies, or practices;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc4f9e4481dcc4efd863dcba5aaf12102"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide recommendations to the Secretary of
the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security on improvements to the
commercial operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf93241ed8b714c6699b8936980cef86f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">perform such other functions relating to
the commercial operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and
the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency as prescribed by law or as
the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security jointly
direct.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd8fe59fa36d0464daa1e2755304e313b"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Meetings</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4790192EA67A477E9A09B86705622D9D"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Advisory Committee shall meet at the
call of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security or
at the call of not less than <fraction>2/3</fraction> of the membership of the
Advisory Committee.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38F0A3CB2240452C807F9B562AA9EC16"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number of meetings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Advisory Committee shall, at a minimum,
meet at least 4 times each calendar year. Additional meetings may be called of
such special task forces or other groups made up of members of the Advisory
Committee as the Advisory Committee determines appropriate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C363E65197B4D409BB95EBC6FB446A6"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Addition of agenda items</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any member of the Advisory Committee may
add an item to the agenda of a meeting not less than 3 days before the
meeting.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD217EB6C7CA4E33800E6FEA5C745183"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Open meetings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A meeting of the Advisory Committee shall
be open to the public unless the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of
Homeland Security determine that the meeting will include matters the
disclosure of which would seriously compromise the development of policies,
priorities, or negotiating objectives or positions that could impact the
commercial operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency or the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID593af393be274d208ffc319741c371f7"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID03835c0fda9047d38f66d557e2c0e2a6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31 of each calendar
year, the Advisory Committee shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the
Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a
report that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb3c8b77d056d475ea51fcf53c3b7f20a"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describes the activities of the Advisory
Committee during the preceding fiscal year; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8fd90dd9dfee4a87befa9631cf74a627"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sets forth any recommendations of the
Advisory Committee regarding the commercial operations of the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency during the preceding fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID469402d18fa445c5879f803be5651820"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Advisory Committee may submit directly
to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means
of the House of Representatives such additional reports on the commercial
operations of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency as the Advisory Committee determines
appropriate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb45d0f219cde45778fed06ddd1c151d9"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability of Federal Advisory Committee
Act</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall apply to the Advisory
Committee, except as follows:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB8CFD8073EEE45B2A648B763899D99AD"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (a) and (b) of section 10 of
such Act (relating to open meetings and availability of information) shall not
apply.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82A4C90C19684A8CB4CF2CBE7E810818"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 11 of such Act (relating to the
availability of transcripts of meetings) shall not apply.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5F741ECC07F44F2C8028873F258EEA19"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 14(a)(2) of such Act (relating to
termination) shall be applied by substituting <quote>4-year period</quote> for
<quote>two-year period</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3b1acbacd4f94b84b2d2d1cecf1ff88b"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8363C39D55664C669835C93359025A69"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective June 30, 2010, section 9503(c) of
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (19 U.S.C. 2071 note) is
repealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE5113AFD0FDF44408C0F6D9862B9EC4C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reference</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any reference in law to the Advisory
Committee on Commercial Operations of the United States Customs Service
established under section 9503(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1987 (19 U.S.C. 2071 note) made on or after June 30, 2010, shall be deemed a
reference to the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee established
under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4aefb5401cb34b7e911d4c509b6b4681" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Automated Commercial Environment computer
system</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95c9e4f4952a48498f49f8971446d30a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 13031(f)(5) of the Consolidated
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(5)) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95202795999A49A283180561712CB8B6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72AEDB74D60C4B0DACD805482BC3E302"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2003, 2004, and
2005</quote> and inserting <quote>2010, 2011, and 2012</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE1AAC73FC6E644CFA2ADD0B574E52860"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$350,000,000</quote> and
inserting <quote>$325,000,000</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAA88DC52D17645B0896C209AC3D5F314"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFAB8A0071E2A43E4AF1EE2BEED752AA5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2003 through
2005</quote> and inserting <quote>2010 through 2012</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7B0975E40AE947499ACD3F8608A656A6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>for the
development</quote> and inserting <quote>to complete the
development</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc448fb010f5b4b5180f2b473d421a642"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 311(b)(3) of the Customs Border
Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 2075 note) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF98685A8D3A483182717D76347A48B6" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID25054afa155f435c9bedf9ce9725a045"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8ce546fbd4484ea9be830a0e2719c805"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2009, the
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall submit to the
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives a report specifying—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID56a8c35870544597bbddbb7c1c99a05a"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the plans of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency and deadlines for incorporating all cargo release data
elements into the Automated Commercial Environment computer system not later
than September 30, 2012, to conform with the admissibility criteria of agencies
participating in the International Trade Data System identified pursuant to
section 411(d)(4)(A)(iii) of the Tariff Act of 1930;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2cf7f7e36954c06bcc22fa15fd6844e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Agency’s remaining priorities for
incorporating entry summary data elements, cargo manifest data elements, and
cargo financial data elements into the Automated Commercial Environment
computer system; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb81e7ba36e2d42cabd3e2c2b0189ef17"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Agency’s objectives, plans, and
deadlines for implementing the priorities identified under clause (ii) not
later than September 30, 2012.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID04a7064a3bb74ba3aabda2f4a4fea551"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Update of reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2010, and
September 30, 2011, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives an updated report addressing each of the matters referred to in
subparagraph
(A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2843ca37ccf4362b7adec8b179a7d38"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government accountability office
report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than
December 31, 2012, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives a report—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8521F98A7D7641F4A65BACFF0986BC6B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluating the cost and effectiveness of
the efforts of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to complete the
development, establishment, and implementation of the Automated Commercial
Environment computer system; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A3255DB3C06403F8D384D2AC5541BF0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assessing the extent to which any
additional functionality may be added into the Automated Commercial Environment
computer system at a reasonable cost.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86aa86edcd7f44f3b5989f148449ac9d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">International Trade Data System</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdd2b33ee5566480ab12c4cdf69a0eecf"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information technology
infrastructure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 411(d)
of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1411(d)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf8a4984f204e471f8220e847b1876d64"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (7)
as paragraphs (5) through (8), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDacd550b3fd1a407e93acadf89ccd2891"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (3) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23124F7A0A1548B8BEE25F5E32CC6111" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc8eb3c3000364f989b132a00977cdd16"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information technology
infrastructure</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcb2900ee24054ec2a8ffd865fead90df"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall work with the head of
each agency participating in the ITDS and the Interagency Steering Committee to
ensure that each such agency—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4f68dcb695fa4d378a4ed14b6f7f1369"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develops and maintains the necessary
information technology infrastructure to support the operation of the
ITDS;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID30b46d605f464128ae2f7cc2879472f5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enters into a memorandum of understanding,
or takes such other action as is necessary, to provide for the information
sharing between the agency and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency
necessary for the operation and maintenance of the ITDS; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcf28ba43980a47e5a53540563ab41c7f"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than November 30, 2009,
identifies and transmits to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection the admissibility criteria and data elements required by the agency
to authorize the release of cargo by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency for incorporation into the operational functionality of the Automated
Commercial Environment computer system.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28FD5432E1C94A9FB978E177B8AB1A2B"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (5), as redesignated, by
striking <quote>each fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each of the
fiscal years 2010 through 2013</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55bf7d05a5b14223b45623c1cce69a9b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
13031(f)(5) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19
U.S.C. 58c(f)(5)), as amended by section 205(a), is further amended by striking
subparagraph (C) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68D116F6477A45A7971C8EC33A93A0E3" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86ED2BF689A44EEEA4C038F27FFF4457" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts deposited in the account
established under subparagraph (A), there shall be available to the Secretary
of the Treasury $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012,
to remain available until expended, to carry out the provisions of section
411(d)(4)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdee12de0f0c54500b1a271df09224875" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Electronic submission of public
comments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than
December 31, 2009, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall
provide—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id59F1DD2855444D88B613EA6F00C1D42C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the electronic submission and posting
of any public comments solicited by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency on the Internet website of the Agency; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4242AB0393A64E9E9E8B85816C5DB493"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the prompt posting of public comments
associated with any rulemaking of the Agency on the Federal Government Internet
website for Federal regulations, www.regulations.gov, or any successor
website.</text>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="id3AD80EC0658444AB8E6C481EC8795246" level-type="subsequent"><enum>B</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trade enforcement</header>
<chapter commented="no" id="id72804699AE9F45FFAA51501B3BFD8C79" level-type="subsequent"><enum>1</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial risk assessment
targeting</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDB1F9F052D2F47C5A9AC22341B623488" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial Targeting Division and National
Targeting and Analysis Groups</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID93a98b54d9dc41b6a301f5c5d9d4225c"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of commercial targeting
division</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDabf42f88cb5445ea96e3e1af7458cf5c"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
establish and maintain within the Office of Trade of the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency, established under section 4 of the Act of March 3,
1927, as added by section 102, a Commercial Targeting Division.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA559D22CFF124532AF706DF63D525732"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Composition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commercial Targeting Division shall be
composed of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15A30BB058D54FF2A3AF551C2087591D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">headquarters personnel led by an Executive
Director, who shall report to the Assistant Commissioner of the Office of
Trade; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00B65932F57647A791B4B6F1FAB54BE4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">individual National Targeting and Analysis
Groups, each led by a Director who shall report to the Executive Director of
the Commercial Targeting Division.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6212D18C8D324B0FB4D9AA8761DE803E"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commercial Targeting Division shall be
dedicated—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2102A1B48B964893893C9C4952DCA782"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the development and conduct of
commercial risk assessment targeting with respect to cargo destined for the
United States in accordance with subsection (c); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B2F125D2CFD40E0945B7E0ABDBB56C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to issuing Trade Alerts described in
subsection (d).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6AD5632F501649F9ACACAACA3904161B"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National targeting and analysis
groups</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDaf853f3b7db341d9aa8443c2dff4f0e7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall determine the priorities of the National Targeting and
Analysis Groups referred to in subsection (a)(2)(B), to include the
enforcement, with respect to the importation of merchandise into the United
States, of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID30c8da220b03489badaef436badeecd1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">intellectual property rights;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc63d7f30494e4dd5862c176493097df5"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">health and safety laws and
regulations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85833ed15dd147f9a694d0c26b7555c0"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">agriculture-related laws and
regulations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4378f0d2c30d4bc9a5d8f53cc913b1af"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">textile- and apparel-related laws and
regulations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b4264f5d29b4bc2b291ec3e83775c59"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">general revenue laws and regulations;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID70eae83fd16249be9289873b7a280356"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">non-general revenue laws and regulations,
including with respect to antidumping and countervailing duties.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc9bf0eb15ca84313895e13f3a5cd86ac"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial risk assessment
targeting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out its
duties with respect to commercial risk assessment targeting, the Commercial
Targeting Division shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6fa85952342641ad85733be40ec53808"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish targeted risk assessment
methodologies and standards—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC7DB63074DAA4E2483D407E330F43059"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for evaluating the risk that cargo destined
for the United States may violate the customs and trade laws of the United
States; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id631ECFADF19548A3B91CDDC8934F0E2A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for issuing, as appropriate, Trade Alerts
described in subsection (d); and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7c4351d9ec224aafa78c094026cc88ab"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the extent practicable and otherwise
authorized by law, use information available from the Automated Commercial
System, the Automated Commercial Environment computer system, the Automated
Targeting System, the Automated Entry System, the International Trade Data
System, and the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, and any successor
systems, to administer the methodologies and standards established under
paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID79bae5d2c2bf40a0a9a1ff866390fac1"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trade alerts</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID39ed0525d7ca4f0f8801342fbbd91e6c"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Issuance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Based upon the application of the targeted
risk assessment methodologies and standards established under subsection (c),
the Executive Director of the Commercial Targeting Division and the Directors
of the National Targeting and Analysis Groups may issue Trade Alerts to
directors of United States ports of entry directing further inspection, or
physical examination or testing, of specific merchandise to ensure compliance
with all applicable customs and trade laws and regulations administered by the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3209161752ec4ef28edcda3be480388c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determinations not to implement Trade
Alerts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The director of a
United States port of entry may determine not to conduct further inspections,
or physical examination or testing, pursuant to a Trade Alert issued under
paragraph (1) if—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8c4fc545b3d348328d3167a60406741c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the director finds that such a
determination is justified by port security interests; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb31901332b8549ba938199390f9ac492"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notifies the Deputy Assistant Commissioner
of the Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Division of the Office of
Field Operations, established under section 5 of the Act of March 3, 1927, as
added by section 102, of the determination and the reasons for the
determination not later than 48 hours after making the determination.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe50eb7187fba4ae794099ee2a17a7e7c"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Summary of determinations not to
implement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Deputy
Assistant Commissioner for Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBCCE3B37F578449F8645F17A1AFF2BA0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">compile an annual public summary of all
determinations by directors of United States ports of entry under paragraph (2)
and the reasons for those determinations; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77C2A598044F43F5B393F1D19BBF3D95"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit the summary to the Committee on
Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives not later than December 31 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd93426555b614f0a961858218e768485"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inspection defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term
<term>inspection</term> means the comprehensive evaluation process used by the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, other than physical examination or
testing, to permit the entry of merchandise into the United States, or the
clearance of merchandise for transportation in bond through the United States,
for purposes of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa5dd85866c01474882e9db0e503ab36a"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assessing duties;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe1e53dc2ae3942aa992b72cde12702f6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifying restricted or prohibited items;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcf41aca5e52740d989fc333651a503c1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensuring compliance with all applicable
customs and trade laws and regulations administered by the Agency.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd7bd48cc2f334539a564aec3b0c972bc"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of trade data for commercial
enforcement purposes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
343(a)(3) of the Trade Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 2071 note) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id918F6436FBA54FE79408A0450BA886C2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (F); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C6CDEFE35FF401B995ED049574C0DFB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (G) through
(L) as subparagraphs (F) through (K), respectively.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id165CEE16B92A4613B43FFCF3ECBE0114" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual illegal drug control law enforcement
strategy</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7280D6B6152C4D24AB985ADB5B400137"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 123 of the Customs and Trade Act of
1990 (19 U.S.C. 2083) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4BBDC9D274434CF1A04AAE6703007DCF" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8fa8199a0a1f4085b7c58b74453647ce" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>123.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual illegal drug control law enforcement
strategy</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8abdd969837f49b6b2d89169ed820a84"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports on violation
estimates</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than June
30, 2010, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall
jointly develop and submit to the chairperson and ranking member of the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and of the Committee on Ways and Means of
the House of Representatives (in this section referred to as the
<quote>Committees</quote>) in accordance with subsection (d) a report that
contains an estimate of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4e6cb92306d846e1b9310fc0d8f26e44"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number and extent of violations of the
illegal drug control laws specified in subsection (b) that are likely to occur
during the year following the report; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc18903813b9449549be6f8be6ac7cd53"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the relative incidence of the violations
described in paragraph (1) among the various United States ports of entry and
customs regions within the customs territory of the United States during the
year preceding the report.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa116bb8305d841839f781ba2bfa683a4"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Illegal drug control laws
specified</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, after consultation with the Committees—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID54793303190a4f89ae3cbe2614856c5e"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall, not later than December 31, 2009,
prepare a list of those provisions of the illegal drug control laws of the
United States with respect to which the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency have enforcement
responsibility and to which the reports required by subsection (a) will apply;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID431aa6fdcedf48bf8ce3df495887b746"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may periodically update the list developed
under paragraph (1), as warranted.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd2c9e514986b47698024b6a47438a6ed"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enforcement strategy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after submitting a
report under subsection (a), the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall
jointly—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb826f2c4b06a4b4988e53889e9f06434"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop or update a strategy for enforcing
the illegal drug control laws specified in subsection (b) in a nationally
uniform manner and addressing the violations estimated in the report during the
period covered by the report; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID166994fb4b324b1081ce883d256f9f5a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the chairperson and ranking
member of each of the Committees a confidential report setting forth the
details of the strategy described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbbf0f98e78d648c5b6749fa1101b78f1"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Confidentiality</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The contents of any report submitted to the
chairperson and ranking member of each of the Committees under subsection (a)
or (c) are confidential and the disclosure of the contents is restricted
to—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2c70fbe8ce4d4847bbd62a99a3d97e91"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">officers and employees of the United States
designated by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection or the
Director of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement to have access to the
contents of the report;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcd61b6380984496abfc2643c0885faa3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the chairperson and ranking member of each
of the Committees; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbd96018cba40454bb4b758f6faa34e04"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Members of Congress and staff of such
Members as the chairperson or ranking member of either of the Committees may
authorize to have access to the contents of the
report.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43EBADBAE4C540E48F059E700792F74A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for the Customs and
Trade Act of 1990 is amended by striking the item relating to section 123 and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id488D65786D384453B95C490354F0AC98" style="OLC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 123. Annual illegal drug
control law enforcement
strategy.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID63eabf961f2e441a8ecc7ae9b18b5157" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report on oversight of revenue protection
and enforcement measures by the inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Inspector General of the Department of
Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report
assessing the following:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID483c9a81611a4141ba3a0222ce17a746"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The effectiveness of the measures taken by
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency with respect to revenue
protection, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9c74ab63d3904c66ac3e41d1b43eda5d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the collection of countervailing and
antidumping duties;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd80e48b7d16a4068b38214d5d793f714"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the assessment and collection of commercial
fines and penalties; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf113d85326664ceaa1ff7972113fc09e"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the adequacy of the policies of the Agency
with respect to monitoring and tracking of merchandise transported in bond and
collecting duties, as appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4277cb1ea97a493b9a90c00c46b48fee"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The effectiveness of actions taken by the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to measure accountability and
performance with respect to revenue protection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2f8c8cef449c44819a217720d30bb7ca"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number and outcome of investigations
instituted by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency with respect to the
underpayment of duties.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27dd6937f0474a589ff3ea83708e1f7c"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The adequacy of training with respect to
the collection of duties provided for personnel of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id525448A4C9A44CADA3D103E9DBDF86FC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>214.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report on security and revenue measures
with respect to merchandise transported in bond</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52B1FA5052D54AF193CCEF66E99EB870"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31 of 2009, 2011,
and 2013, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of the Treasury
shall jointly submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the
Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report on efforts
undertaken by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to ensure the
secure transportation of merchandise in bond through the United States and the
collection of revenue owed upon the entry of such merchandise into the United
States for consumption.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD98CAC977DD44BB2AC06181A290FD160"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The report required by subsection (a) shall
include information, for the 2 fiscal years preceding the submission of the
report, on—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID45c0d65096384a6492c96c4f23c7bb57"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the overall number of entries of
merchandise for transportation in bond through the United States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe912f1e4c2444407863c805fa8ab4fec"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the ports at which merchandise arrives in
the United States for transportation in bond and at which records of the
arrival of such merchandise are generated;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID49a84e18a0534cc888ab7f6abe51c984"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the average time taken to <italic></italic>
reconcile such records with the records at the final destination of the
merchandise in the United States to demonstrate that the merchandise reaches
its final destination or is reexported;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID77f5a13983eb4ec58ee02f5cf2a95fec"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the average time taken to transport
merchandise in bond from the port at which the merchandise arrives in the
United States to its final destination in the United States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID782101ee83aa43269919dd0c130b4f87"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total amount of duties, taxes, and fees
owed with respect to shipments of merchandise transported in bond and the total
amount of such duties, taxes, and fees paid;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa29e98d77e7440e4ba5f4c08f67a2f43"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total number of notifications by
carriers of merchandise being transported in bond that the destination of the
merchandise has changed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdefaaefaf4c24d498f75f8e6e526ad84"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of entries that remain
unreconciled.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID96d9b49c4d804ec9acca47016cc81fc9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>215.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Importer of record program</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3cd529ab75204285bacaa2e515cb8ca8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish
an importer of record program to assign and maintain importer of record
numbers.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdc2cf98cb35f4f26ac9265ac485ea347"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
ensure that, as part of the importer of record program, the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID99979858ab094b00a54bc40c9c07ed44"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develops criteria that importers must meet
in order to obtain an importer of record number;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID075e5f3472164c47a1570dd47acf5f15"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides a process by which importers are
assigned importer of record numbers;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID294a7aee80d04a6abba6c254f7f9d446"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maintains a centralized database of
importer of record numbers, including a history of importer of record numbers
associated with each importer;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe3d020e79e17423c825931a5b1c14edb"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluates the accuracy of the database;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa7705931a4b8411a9bb0a6fefa6be9c1"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">takes measures to ensure that duplicate
importer of record numbers are not issued.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbc8072a86176400fbf7f792937678bbb"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives a report on the importer of record program established
under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbb9080da8e474522a07d49fbb28f746b"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection,
the term <term>number</term>, with respect to an importer of record, means a
filing identification number described in section 24.5 of title 19, Code of
Federal Regulations (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment
of this Act).</text>
</subsection></section></chapter><chapter commented="no" id="idA3F663CAA4E8417AB64157BFDA796D43" level-type="subsequent"><enum>2</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Import health and safety</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68CB5A8CB95D42CD88DBD3FFB5D3515A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>221.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Interagency Import Safety Working
Group</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf1b836c2a7f441f980b4acd1709ddf29"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established an interagency Import
Safety Working Group.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5bd385b738d1466985c603dd13ca8735"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The interagency Import Safety Working Group
shall consist of the following officials or their designees:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDea4958f045d540059ab8ebbc89f887af"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security, who
shall serve as the Chair.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID406d82295c024566ac0ced44829c6cdb"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Health and Human Services,
who shall serve as the Vice Chair.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID88a34f7a7a874ca69539ed75afe3ecc5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID57191a369ad94518b6154b19396310f5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Agriculture.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa3f517be10d042e8b0747975c827895f"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States Trade
Representative.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeb1541d3b80e45acad6667bedf98bc2d"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Office of Management
and Budget.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9e6a54e55b8d4e4e85d9785560acb748"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID990aba6d814e40f889b5a7b378249c00"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID138b7e23839f4a788604b7d5963a801b"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0ba2193cd0f6480f9d376b32b0f9ad51"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of any other Federal department or
agency designated by the President to participate in the interagency Import
Safety Working Group, as appropriate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd801e7c1d33c4d76b3f536af80259608"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the interagency Import Safety
Working Group shall include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4312cbe31b8747d587dbeafad5c43103"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consulting on the development of the Joint
Import Safety Rapid Response Plan required by section 222;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDef683be468b143b88d7dd0a5f3c9bae2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">periodically evaluating the adequacy of the
plans, practices, and resources of the Federal Government dedicated to ensuring
the safety of imports into the United States, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDee77f5170c0f4e428f89a2101b1d3678"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reviewing the engagement and cooperation of
foreign governments and foreign manufacturers in facilitating the inspection
and certification, as appropriate, of such imports and the facilities producing
such imports to ensure the safety of such imports into the United States;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9be9099d335c470bb8bdd8b423b1a273"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommending additional administrative
measures designed to ensure the safety of imports, as appropriate;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8c5986b4a71b4bbd9133e862cab1b870"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifying best practices to assist United
States importers in taking all appropriate steps to ensure the safety of
imports into the United States, including with respect to—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5f2777e478744c8ba59a1053b8d4b264"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the inspection of manufacturing facilities
in foreign countries;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6934f9749fd8414ab3194878323410f4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the inspection of imports destined for the
United States before exportation from a foreign country or before distribution
in the United States; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1673579f92fb4eddbc0fdfc8aee7e88d"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the protection of the international supply
chain (as defined in section 2 of the Security and Accountability For Every
Port Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 901));</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID095c9a67e1eb4a91b5b0aa491d635c9b"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifying best practices to assist
Federal, State, and local governments and agencies, and port authorities, to
improve communication and coordination among such agencies and authorities in
responding to any threats to public health and safety associated with specific
imports into the United States; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7dda8fe4aa01498494987ec65293ee83"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">otherwise identifying appropriate steps to
increase the accountability of United States importers and the engagement of
foreign government agencies with respect to ensuring the safety of imports into
the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID836bb654693247c98746bcd8dbfa82a5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint Import Safety Rapid Response
Plan</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID24076b5081474980b169a11632c3a117"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2009, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the interagency Import
Safety Working Group, shall develop a plan (to be known as the <quote>Joint
Import Safety Rapid Response Plan</quote>) that sets forth protocols and
defines practices for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to
use—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id333D98169B2C4969BC3394354C11991B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in taking action in response to, and
coordinating Federal responses to, an incident in which cargo destined for or
merchandise entering the United States has been identified as posing a threat
to the health or safety of consumers in the United States; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id34262931A92B4CCC91D14A69487F6AD3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in recovering from or mitigating the
effects of actions and responses to an incident described in paragraph
(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb4d0cb25814d418aab40e65115f07586"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Joint Import Safety Rapid Response Plan
shall address—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0d9427eea9d5402b96c228a7937dfb70"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the statutory and regulatory authorities
and responsibilities of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and other
Federal departments and agencies in responding to an incident described in
subsection (a)(1);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5c76e37180d8485b8297c26e6dd9d37b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the protocols and practices to be used by
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency when taking action in response
to, and coordinating Federal responses to, an incident described in subsection
(a)(1);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa76c4528d0cb406fb2cc68009d583165"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the measures to be taken by the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency and other Federal departments and agencies
in recovering from or mitigating the effects of actions taken in response to an
incident described in subsection (a)(1) after the incident; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc4dc3c19c4e6401aac2aa202354ab58e"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">exercises that the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency may conduct in conjunction with Federal, State, and local
departments and agencies to simulate responses to an incident described in
subsection (a)(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3B225AF2F8204EC5AB05B1B6FBC8B8BD"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Updates of plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
review and update the Joint Import Safety Rapid Response Plan, as appropriate,
after conducting exercises under subsection (d).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID688ed12852444df8a90abf1fec8fd403"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Import health and safety exercises</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8b59829d75e8425493c87c12efbe7887"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security and the
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall periodically engage in
the exercises referred to in subsection (b)(4), in conjunction with Federal,
State, and local departments and agencies, as appropriate, to test and evaluate
the protocols and practices identified in the Joint Import Safety Rapid
Response Plan at United States ports of entry.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6AC50728BA1C4AAB9D611AF5096F2F9C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements for exercises</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting exercises under paragraph
(1), the Secretary and the Commissioner shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID61013563c83d456b81c7ea4789f3077b"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make allowance for the resources, needs,
and constraints of United States ports of entry of different sizes in
representative geographic locations across the United States;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID03218faf86d44b8faedc07447222420e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">base evaluations on current risk
assessments of merchandise entering the United States at representative United
States ports of entry located across the United States; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID98795b2399bd4dca9d5e12308bb4961a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure that such exercises are conducted in
a manner consistent with the National Incident Management System, the National
Response Plan, the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, the National
Preparedness Guidance, the Maritime Transportation System Security Plan, and
other such national initiatives of the Department of Homeland Security, as
appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb886fd01d1f44454867d3d05fa38e229"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements for testing and
evaluation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary and
the Commissioner shall ensure that the testing and evaluation carried out in
conducting exercises under paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID44290d3838ba42f1a6b65a32a14339b6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are performed using clear and objective
performance measures; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42442e4f8abf4f53bb865ffa6eabc41a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">result in the identification of specific
recommendations or best practices for responding to an incident described in
subsection (a)(1).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD69BDD9CBA994C27A823B5A01224A660"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dissemination of recommendations and best
practices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary and
the Commissioner shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id29B25B800D26487CA22E3772029C2C38"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">share the recommendations or best practices
identified under paragraph (3) among the members of the interagency Import
Safety Working Group and with, as appropriate—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1c9df6156bc147d1b3171b1dce0a1259"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State and local governments;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1ab224b53dab479182dfc31ada013cb0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">tribal and foreign governments; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID270a4960ed6d49639c5143e3c72cfd12"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">private sector entities (as defined in
section 2); and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd0b169c6d5f74fdf8dd4cce3f4e14e3f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use such recommendations and best practices
to update the Joint Import Safety Rapid Response Plan.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9c3db1e8e46049db91f8f1c635806f7f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall ensure that personnel of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency assigned to ports of entry are trained to effectively
administer the provisions of this chapter and to otherwise assist in ensuring
the safety of imports into the United States.</text>
</section></chapter><chapter commented="no" id="id78E763E1F6D4490394BC9244B188152B" level-type="subsequent"><enum>3</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Import-Related protection of intellectual
property rights</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7fed6311e01b40a0a9f48f0a9b77f965" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>231.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Intellectual property rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this chapter (other than section 232),
the term <term>intellectual property rights</term> refers to copyrights,
trademarks, and other forms of intellectual property rights that are enforced
by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4120a630d0f94e83a2903f177d800378" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>232.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Intellectual Property Rights
Coordination Center</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc43e4fdde2414063953761b5ba3df6cb"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security
shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88F39B205109464FA4A4B35750DB08B0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish within the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Agency a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination
Center; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72CC6727902A49F4AE8A2EEEFA55A1AD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">appoint an Assistant Director to head the
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID000284771f8245c2843151f0a4f9bc96"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The duties of the Assistant Director of the
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe142e6129e3b40238d01c18a7af6a102"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating the investigation of sources
of goods imported into the United States that infringe intellectual property
rights to identify organizations that produce, smuggle, or distribute such
goods;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf02ba38d291d4f43b762a80c58db017e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating training for domestic and
international law enforcement agencies on investigative best practices to
develop and expand the capability of such agencies to enforce intellectual
property rights;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8013a724dc0a48459a3abfacf9697ba4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating activities conducted by the
United States to prevent the importation or exportation of goods that infringe
intellectual property rights;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd90f3f43a19e4b75ac019642b2ef7519"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">supporting the interdiction of goods
destined for the United States that infringe intellectual property
rights;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0e0adbcb063d4cf88238c3c4504949c6"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collecting information regarding
infringements of intellectual property rights from non-Federal sources;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8f19e871a341432ea63bf92626274b68"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">integrating information from domestic and
international law enforcement agencies with information received from
non-Federal sources regarding infringements of intellectual property rights;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID23e76d1d23ef46f4b460167808ba68ad"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">disseminating information regarding
infringements of intellectual property rights to other Federal agencies for use
in appropriate investigative and tactical activities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID48733023d4244387a44def32b1323680"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordination with other
agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the
duties described in subsection (b), the Assistant Director of the National
Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall coordinate with—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67329fb859754fbcb5b33b321fc7fd42"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbd7a5f0770a94c2c957b635183a68293"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Food and Drug Administration;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0f62e75ce4364f709168b40f80696d8a"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Justice;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc20be5e787494ec6a70193f40adb0cd0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Commerce;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE63F23260BC43EFBB62DFA2DD950137"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the United States Postal Inspection
Service;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0e81edc968a4467183696b8e234e9757"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any Federal, State, local, or international
law enforcement agencies the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement considers appropriate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd8342caf43524c1fb1710819ee572741"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other entities the Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement considers appropriate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf474b9ffd0444d6d8902366a9e7e4a8d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>233.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of
intellectual property rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall
include in the Joint Strategic Plan (as defined in section 2)—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69F6842495F94C65ACD3A62E1E0FFACD"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the efforts of the
Department of Homeland Security to enforce intellectual property rights;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID97e4e99b8cce48cdb6df71baaa1e9ad0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a list of the 10 United States ports of
entry where the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency has seized the most
goods, by volume, that infringe intellectual property rights during the most
recent 2-year period for which data are available; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb57a164360cd4679922b3ca1310c276a"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a recommendation for the optimal allocation
of personnel, resources, and technology to ensure that the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency are adequately enforcing intellectual property rights.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe78b6b91a34a44d3a9a055e94816b688" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>234.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Repeated import-related infringement of
intellectual property rights</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID979d8179f7614fedab1cd279f4860965"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Commissioner of the Office of
Trade of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency shall identify and
maintain a confidential list of persons described in subsection (b) that have a
history of attempting to import goods that infringe intellectual property
rights into the United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1028D64903EA4E068C66062E4F574A6D"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Persons described</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Persons described in this subsection are
persons involved in the entry of goods into the United States, including
intermodal transportation system providers, contract logistics providers, air,
land, and sea carriers, customs brokers, importers, and forwarders.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae0e1aae2cab478eb8f1c381c8eb2c2f"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial risk assessment
targeting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commercial
Targeting Division of the Office of Trade established under section 211 shall
consider the list under subsection (a) when establishing targeted risk
assessment methodologies and standards under section 211(c).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7c837b7b212d457ab5310dd8de876a59"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Removal from list</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Commissioner of the Office of
Trade shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9FFE896C240D4B66BBE408205BD52E65"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">periodically review the list of persons
under subsection (a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37E4D541693C487DB125B0A57FA5E1DA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">remove persons from the list that have
demonstrated a pattern of compliance with intellectual property rights.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa5b428f8e5f24716bf9692941ffe64ec" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>235.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of
intellectual property rights</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID592d5876db1d472ebba1d14e2dc0437a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned throughout the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency who have responsibility for
preventing the importation of goods that infringe intellectual property rights
into the United States, including the Commercial Targeting Division established
under section 211 and the Office of Rulings and Regulations of the Office of
Trade.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDacc5581352af4747b49deb8792846ef5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Port
personnel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall ensure that at least 1 full-time
employee with principal responsibility for preventing the importation into the
United States of goods that infringe intellectual property rights is assigned
to each United States port of entry on the list required by section
233(2).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6543bced6cb444ee866bd36d02db693e"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Staffing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall assign not fewer than 3 full-time employees of the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency to the National Intellectual Property
Rights Coordination Center established under section 232.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa419530b70a44f02bb4c57985147aacb"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2010, the
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall submit to the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives a report estimating the average time required by the
Office of Rulings and Regulations of the Office of Trade to make a
determination with respect to whether goods detained by the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency infringe intellectual property rights, distinguishing
among types of intellectual property rights.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf3d7ee3a91794de59b3c243ce69c8b46" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>236.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training with respect to the enforcement of
intellectual property rights</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd3417732c6144ccfb497e3c62eef6d98"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall ensure that officers of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency are trained to effectively detect and identify goods destined for the
United States that infringe intellectual property rights, including through the
use of technologies identified under subsection (b).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8e3812bb55fe48c5a78c489e14805b1d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Identification of new
technologies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In consultation
with private sector entities (as defined in section 2), the Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall identify—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID90365bccd06449498d9cb72979cd7520"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technologies with the cost-effective
capability to detect and identify goods at United States ports of entry that
infringe intellectual property rights; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5025185e89b14fe198a92f1fd3520622"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cost-effective programs for training
officers of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to use such
technologies.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2307abdf99454af68677d1b48e084a94"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Donations of technology</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall promulgate regulations to enable the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Agency to receive donations of hardware, software, equipment, and
similar technologies, and to accept training and other support services from
private sector entities.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9900cf90544344fab318434a432220b5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>237.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Recordation of works for which a copyright
is pending</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37370376C1D54962B6D4D64A5F93A731"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 526 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1526) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id34D690D693CB4DCBBCBEA6E83B02FCF8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (f) as
subsection (g); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id448D7FEAF3CD401EA7C7DB931173BA5E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (e) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0DC4F39BF4CD4ACFA2FD3D7CA2F50A53" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF729F84D5F924CB1B4C2023A2B99D0B2"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Recordation of works for which a copyright
is pending</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b00cf2c8c3f4b45aa80c981b0774817"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (3), a person who
submits an application to the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress for
registration of a copyright under title 17, United States Code, with respect to
a work described in paragraph (2) may request the Commissioner of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7CDA95A1BE724452B290C358192C58D5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to record the application of the person for
registration of the copyright; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48C9997D4545460598E77D8C86F6C019"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to enforce the copyright for which the
person submitted the application to the same extent and in the same manner as
if the copyright was registered with the Copyright Office.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7d2034742bc3460ea4a820c5b95f6423"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible
works</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Works described in this
paragraph are recordings, motion pictures, or similar works otherwise eligible
for registration under title 17, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6F04604628CF4E49B791CB582BD2237C"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Proof of subsequent registration</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID395313ae0eee431a92bac5f9b7f81a02"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the date that is 30 days
after the date on which the Copyright Office registers, or denies the
registration of, the copyright of a person who requested that the Commissioner
record the application for the copyright under paragraph (1), the person shall
submit to the Commissioner proof of the registration of the copyright or a
notice of the denial of the registration of the copyright, as the case may
be.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87DC2343A4564C5EAFB1741328E5432F"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notices to Commissioner while application
pending</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year
after the date on which a person requests that the Commissioner record the
application of the person for a copyright under paragraph (1), and annually
thereafter until the Copyright Office registers the copyright or denies the
application for the copyright, the person shall submit to the Commissioner a
notice that the application for the copyright remains pending before the
Copyright Office.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd10e8432b5a842f9a6d3f8e807fd2c6e"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cancellation of recordation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner may cancel the recordation
of an application for a copyright under paragraph (1) if—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa8be31df97f94e56a2ac29e4cf554d41"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the person who requested that the
Commissioner record the application for the copyright—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDB456E55DF7E4CF2A3A783D5842D3B06"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fails to submit proof of the registration
of the copyright to the Commissioner by the date required under subparagraph
(A); or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3e89a872ac424fba9faaa339ebfb232e"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fails to submit a notice that the
application for the copyright remains pending by a date required under
subparagraph (B); or</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86aae9ae545d437083a17c8eba29b007"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Commissioner receives notice that the
Copyright Office denied the application for the
copyright.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6505e02c60824d208b10e308098caadd"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (g) of such section 526, as
redesignated by subsection (a), is amended by striking <quote>(e)</quote> and
inserting <quote>(e) or (f)</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd736025782d04644b774ceba5e76ed9f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>238.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability of samples to owners of
copyrights and trademarks or persons injured by the importation of
circumvention devices</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6fb166d83e554e24b8a52b63f20825d6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise that may infringe a copyright
or trademark</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner
of U.S. Customs and Border Protection may provide a sample of merchandise
detained or seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency because the
merchandise may infringe a copyright or trademark to the owner of the copyright
or trademark (as the case may be) to conduct physical examination or testing to
determine if the merchandise infringes the copyright or trademark (as the case
may be).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC6DBEC5FA0DA4EFB89E0E42C978F90B1"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Circumvention devices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection may provide a sample of merchandise detained or seized by the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency because the importation of the merchandise
may be prohibited by subsection (a)(2) or (b)(1) of section 1201 of title 17,
United States Code, to any person who may be injured by the importation of the
merchandise to conduct physical examination or testing to determine if the
importation of the merchandise is prohibited under either such
subsection.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID91326548f9eb42708c9abf69b5408390"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Bond requirement for merchandise over
$100</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the value of a sample
of merchandise described in subsection (a) or (b) is more than $100, the
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall require a person
requesting such a sample to furnish a bond in the form and amount specified by
the director of the United States port of entry where the merchandise entered
the United States.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa2e0bb1bc9b14234b3c437d30aa61d53" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>239.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Seizure of circumvention devices</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3c99e4dafe4a4da29a5641aa38377446"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 596(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930
(19 U.S.C. 1595a(c)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcb739a61976e4aabb3ccb5a958c18d43"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by striking
<quote>or</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4832f9ed85ee43068c33d3a1f2498897"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (F), by striking the period
and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID78a44f5b53b94c33bdffa18da4741665"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00C517B4EB584522807FAB0404B6F8C9" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id362FB7DCEB5A4C7A8CFD8EC7CEB4A150"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency determines it is a technology, product, service, device, component, or
part thereof the importation of which is prohibited under section 1201(a)(2) or
1201(b)(1) of title 17, United States
Code.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1bd0e79fdafe4425ae06a6d535780a5f"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publication</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 15 days after seizing
merchandise pursuant to section 596(c)(2)(G) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
added by subsection (a), the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
shall publish on the Internet website of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency information regarding the merchandise seized to permit any person to
identify the merchandise and determine whether the merchandise is—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id264E0C9666E048F899C623A928007B10"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a technology, product, service, device,
component, or part thereof described in section 1201(a)(2) of title 17, United
States Code, that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC883980622AF4D7CB5EDCD2A2EC2BA85"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is primarily designed or produced for the
purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls
access to a work for which the person has a copyright that is registered under
title 17, United States Code, or that is otherwise recorded with the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66B5AF01B8EB4661A08C356268A9F60E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has only limited commercially significant
purpose or use other than to circumvent such a technological measure; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id661904DC3EEA47179BE66091B12FFBD9"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is marketed for use in circumventing such a
technological measure; or</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAAF851C00575422087C1A2006DD0FB0B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a technology, product, service, device,
component, or part thereof described in section 1201(b)(1) of title 17, United
States Code, that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id91DDA0AA922D41C2ABA94BD318FEFB86"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is primarily designed or produced for the
purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that
effectively protects a right of the person for a work or a portion of a work
that is registered under title 17, United States Code, or that is otherwise
recorded with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC83C58DCDE6047E082BA853BF2251357"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has only limited commercially significant
purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by such a
technological measure; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82FBDCD565F84959BD2C5783A98D6D09"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is marketed for use in circumventing
protection afforded such a technological measure.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc6b164a28ad14a999a2f9dc93c60c0ab"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after publishing the
information required under subsection (b) with respect to seized merchandise,
any person that determines that the seized merchandise is merchandise that
infringes a right of the person as described in subsection (b) (or an agent of
such a person) may submit to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency an
application that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4A63F5E0A0D8468E8F53EDC5DA90C195"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifies the person as a person who holds
such a right (or an agent of such a person); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2EBF961A1E734954AF41032662341C1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">requests the information described in
subsection (d).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd135ee51c9f34d8cb0268e37978bdd83"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Disclosure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after receiving an
application described in subsection (c), the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency shall disclose to the person who submitted the application the following
information:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6833a320abad41cbb2ef6d8e3eacc4d5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date of importation of the merchandise
seized.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb0e1dbfbbf39432f8813ac55d51b64d9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States port of entry at which
the merchandise was seized.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6674f08217584e7cb6bfd16458049168"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A description of the merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8ffa349d3fa347f3aca87a40c11f9e59"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The quantity of merchandise seized.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7a61b242e99b4d8e9ea04e6460b92ea6"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The country of origin of the
merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0265da29fec54bb2aa81807ff5d85a2e"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The name and address of the foreign
manufacturer of the merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc36807be69474108af2d238bea2c340d"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The name and address of the exporter of the
merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0361d9f5deb743c19203c8539faa9a23"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The name and address of the importer of the
merchandise.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9c8b18208f0448e386d2c689f7b560c7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>240.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information for travelers regarding
violations of intellectual property rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
develop and carry out an educational campaign to inform travelers entering or
leaving the United States about the legal, economic, and public health and
safety implications of acquiring goods that infringe intellectual property
rights outside the United States and importing such goods into the United
States in violation of United States law.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8f6132800a664d31a58652219d5fa1b6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>241.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">International cooperation and information
sharing</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4b79a9ae9e124d2785177451bd728b11"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cooperation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent practicable and appropriate,
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate with the competent law
enforcement authorities of foreign governments, including by sharing
information relevant to enforcement actions, to enhance the efforts of United
States and foreign law enforcement agencies to enforce intellectual property
rights.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDde88866821fa4204a4b62e33a727f41b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical Assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent practicable and appropriate,
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide technical assistance to
competent law enforcement authorities of foreign governments to enhance the
ability of such authorities to enforce intellectual property rights.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID63c6f6bd4da14c248c8d3a868744bc95" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>242.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sense of Congress regarding recordation
process</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of
Congress that the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection should
work with the Under Secretary for Intellectual Property and Director of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office of the Department of Commerce and the
Register of Copyrights of the Library of Congress to consider a system under
which—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID64440e3bc2784c6c89ca4b4b5d5f7b36"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a trademark may be recorded with the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency simultaneously with the issuance of
trademark registration by the United States Patent and Trademark Office;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1ebf9c768a7644aa9af2719cb2004e7e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a copyright may be recorded with the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency simultaneously with the registration of a
copyright by the Register of Copyrights.</text>
</paragraph></section></chapter></subtitle><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Miscellaneous provisions</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd6c147d27f8949f7b38d514495eff8d6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consultation on trade and customs revenue
functions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 401(c) of
the Safety and Accountability for Every Port Act (6 U.S.C. 115(c)) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID844939412349454680a0d9c34d9e2502"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>on
Department policies and actions that have</quote> and inserting <quote>not
later than 30 days after proposing, and not later than 30 days before
finalizing, any Department policies, initiatives, or actions that will
have</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID11ee28d7695c48328ee75e6ee61629d7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(A), by striking <quote>not
later than 30 days prior to the finalization of</quote> and inserting
<quote>not later than 60 days before proposing, and not later than 60 days
before finalizing,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id750A108CB9C34A52B0AE6FF41A6C8B1D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drawback for exported merchandise</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID96adfe41b6ec436ebbbe89c8ecb1889e"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1313) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB8D2387354C4C59AE2E9397EA4678FF" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD93DD52BD7C34A59BF6F5C9AFFD94BC9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drawback for exported merchandise</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id631CB4EC67DC4A0786EFA147ABE106ED"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE586ED6C0DBE4FFE97758F667D31E5B9"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Bill of materials; formula</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>bill of materials</term>
and <term>formula</term> mean records kept in the ordinary course of business
that identify each component incorporated into merchandise or that identify the
quantity of each element, material, chemical, mixture, or other substance
incorporated into merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbc3238a8d3874d12a3aab327f204e08d"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commissioner</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Commissioner</term> means
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id01F5EDD0FB444F57B21DE89388D1C393"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Destruction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>destruction</term> means a
process by which merchandise loses all commercial value, other than the value
of any material that may be recovered when the merchandise is destroyed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id069B0A50437A4721A7B5A6A6099AAF8C"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Direct identification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>direct identification</term>
means identifying, for drawback purposes, merchandise when exported as the same
merchandise previously imported or as merchandise into which the imported
merchandise is incorporated using—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8E87E6BDCD534C3A80B2FB657F53F413"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the serial number or other unique
identifier of the merchandise; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8B10502915BF46BEA314B8014C739469"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such accounting methods as are provided for
by regulation by the Commissioner.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf2e2253ca54949a397e2d70943398313"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Directly</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>directly</term> means a
transfer of merchandise from 1 person to another person without any
intermediate transfer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc632d7f8c3e94a3b8d8e4e66a2f20735"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fungible</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>fungible</term> means, with
respect to merchandise, merchandise that is commercially identical to other
merchandise in all instances.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc0d419ffc83547c58b949a750795ebcc"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Good subject to Chile FTA
drawback</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>good
subject to Chile FTA drawback</term> has the meaning given that term in section
203(a) of the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (19
U.S.C. 3805 note).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbc51067d33a440fe838c10e2a901cba1"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Good subject to NAFTA
drawback</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>good
subject to NAFTA drawback</term> has the meaning given that term in section
203(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (19 U.S.C.
3333(a)).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd9399992d84a4ffc8259c91176857866"><enum>(9)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">HTS</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>HTS</term> means the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID282ead3ce61a4e0f90b162affe1e3015"><enum>(10)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Incorporated</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>incorporated</term> means
any operation by which merchandise becomes classifiable in a different 8-digit
HTS subheading number.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID035ac7cf2ae94ee18d1782516502a3fa"><enum>(11)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indirectly</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>indirectly</term> means a
transfer of merchandise from 1 person to another person with 1 or more
intermediate transfers.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86a9f88fbf584df085fc8c8b079d8099"><enum>(12)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">NAFTA country</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>NAFTA country</term> has the
meaning given that term in section 2 of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3301).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2dffdb9279014623b5c7a35f2e1ea914"><enum>(13)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Schedule B</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Schedule B</term> means the
Department of Commerce Schedule B, Statistical Classification of Domestic and
Foreign Commodities Exported from the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9ae3e22874844f7aac0e220e79c4e89a"><enum>(14)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Substitute merchandise</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>substitute
merchandise</term> means merchandise that is substituted for other merchandise
for drawback purposes pursuant to subsection (b)(3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9F1BA93FCF9C4031BCCC72B674596A89"><enum>(15)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vessel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>vessel</term> includes
vessels, parts of vessels, aircraft, and parts of aircraft.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID083f83c59e534437956d27b7d9020589"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbf33ef695b3a4e3db940d5c450ce8492"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drawback</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If merchandise is imported into the United
States and merchandise described in paragraph (2) is then exported, duties,
fees, and taxes paid upon entry or importation of the merchandise shall be
refunded as drawback in an amount determined under subsection (d).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEACC806A5A874D9096D4F0BAEBC727A0"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible merchandise</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF2B83A7DF66440F7A94AED379CEF051D"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise described in this paragraph
is—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60F0C9C425CC4536B4B574B3A3959DDC"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the imported merchandise;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC0A90E1C71E14F2E828667D946B7B564"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">merchandise that is substituted for the
imported merchandise pursuant to paragraph (3);</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id877A7C18FD1846BDA65926AA9CE4E5C7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">merchandise into which the imported
merchandise or substitute merchandise is incorporated; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9F52C18153EC47DCBFA8B1E9B84536FD"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">merchandise that is substituted, pursuant
to paragraph (3), for merchandise into which the imported merchandise or
substitute merchandise is incorporated.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id355A3219672348708B6C424A259BB20F"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Identification of merchandise</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person claiming drawback under this
section shall demonstrate that the merchandise being exported is merchandise
described in this paragraph based on information contained in the line item for
the imported merchandise on the entry summary form and information contained in
the line item for the exported merchandise in the automated export
system.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA8106482B94F4A0CB1B5770B4B521B7D"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Substitution</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E64BB1D38D04758A3072C5743AD7954"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in this paragraph,
merchandise may be substituted for other merchandise if it can be demonstrated
that the merchandise was classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading
number as the other merchandise at some point during the 5-year period
beginning on the date on which the merchandise was imported.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id904F13CA91704D9ABFA72583BCF3701C"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on substitution based on excise
tax rate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding
subparagraph (A), merchandise subject to one excise tax rate may not be
substituted for merchandise subject to another excise tax rate.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30D9C91781964A548570B6FC6D17299A"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rules</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDC3B6D9D4E2B40A688C13C45A3C999C2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of merchandise that is
classifiable under heading 2710 or 3901 through 3914 of the HTS, the
merchandise may be substituted for other merchandise if the merchandise is
classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as the other
merchandise under the HTS as in effect on January 1, 2000.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49FF61C5038047D08C626B4EA907B966"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise that is classifiable under
subheading 2204.21.50, 2204.29.20, or 2204.29.60 of the HTS may be substituted
for other merchandise that is classifiable under any such subheading.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD050248AE294C0BB06343FFDB8DCC91"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise that is classifiable under
subheading 2204.21.80, 2204.29.40, or 2204.29.80 of the HTS may be substituted
for other merchandise that is classifiable under any such subheading.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09A5C8F95D2742C3BD55636A732F5604"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Classification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Schedule B number for merchandise may
be used for purposes of determining under subparagraph (A) or (C) if the
merchandise is or has been classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading
number as other merchandise.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id008FBD9A1E2044E5977B96FDC6703233"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility for drawback for merchandise
incorporated into other merchandise</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Imported merchandise described in paragraph
(1) that is incorporated into other merchandise shall be eligible for drawback
under this section regardless of the number of times the merchandise is
incorporated into other merchandise or such other merchandise is incorporated
into other merchandise if the merchandise is otherwise eligible for drawback
under this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB3D3B5BA21904149AC1EEFE9D9BA81F6"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rules for ethyl alcohol</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3148AD9C042B4890BB1DE002A8A929AD"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
in the case of any duty paid under subheading 9901.00.50 of the HTS on imports
of ethyl alcohol or a mixture of ethyl alcohol, such duty may not be refunded
if the exported merchandise upon which a drawback claim is based does not
contain ethyl alcohol or a mixture of ethyl alcohol.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0681A9F09C9F4707B5DCF417D57508B4"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This paragraph shall apply with respect
to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID40a4d85ea4b7445e9b4194833d41f0f7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">imports of ethyl alcohol or a mixture of
ethyl alcohol entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after October 1, 2008; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID306f9f7705a348e6be04b7c20189f9d4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">imports of ethyl alcohol or a mixture of
ethyl alcohol entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after October 1, 2008, if a duty drawback claim is filed
with respect to such imports on or after October 1, 2010.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID784d7776f244430a823ee3c873040f9d"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility To claim drawback</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc95f3c7ad2e842e0848a75fdb1c18d46"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Person making claim</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person may claim drawback under this
section if the person—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3e8c2fc1d9d84143a63e8cce8c76cac8"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id658F0C876EA648D99C7E36CD1B36B1E8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">imports the merchandise on which the claim
is based; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4E7FD54C12BA4D248357EC974F557EB4" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">obtains the importer's permission to claim
the drawback; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6bc7f132627b45e38b1b2bfd504ba882"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id0E06DCE200C7491BB6A44F99324CBC17"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">exports the merchandise on which the claim
is based; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF8FF905670094909BA8F3B1B2672EB92" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">obtains the exporter's permission to claim
drawback.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID24e895940ab641208e50aa58b4a6280c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Claim for drawback on merchandise
incorporated</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If drawback is
claimed with respect to imported merchandise or substitute merchandise
incorporated into other merchandise, the person making the claim shall submit a
bill of materials or formula identifying the imported merchandise or substitute
merchandise and the merchandise into which it is incorporated by the 8-digit
HTS subheading number and the quantity of the imported merchandise or
substitute merchandise (as the case may be) and the merchandise into which it
is incorporated. Imported merchandise or substitute merchandise shall be deemed
incorporated into other merchandise if the bill of materials or formula for
such other merchandise includes the imported merchandise or substitute
merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0a45c90175934365b41b134a56b0f396"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Electronic filing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A claim for drawback under this section
shall be filed electronically.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe563b86e49424e96a79040d1a9de7df9"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Time limit for claim</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drawback may be paid under this section
only if the claim for drawback is filed not later than 5 years after the date
on which the merchandise is imported. If merchandise with respect to which
drawback is claimed is imported on more than 1 date, the earliest date of
importation shall be used for purposes of this paragraph.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID563fe937749544e3a4841fce592f392e"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount of drawback</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA40A098C980B43DB8BBD8C6444EE82D4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of drawback paid pursuant to
this section shall be equal to 99 percent of the product of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3AE2A2DB7BD44FBBA4F3B18FBC64E14E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of units of merchandise exported
to claim drawback with respect to imported merchandise, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDde52f1cf00234b538ef1ecf371f22ac4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the lesser of—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE468076E0B3C4E74B6756E6A95B935EF"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the average of duties, taxes, and fees paid
for each unit of the imported merchandise with respect to which drawback is
claimed, or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC61F9D1CC82442F69F7F90CC47602FB8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the average amount of duties, taxes, and
fees that would apply to the exported merchandise if the exported merchandise
were imported.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD52BB2864684E74813C67E6E81C8D02"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of duties, taxes, and fees that
may be refunded as drawback with respect to imported merchandise pursuant to
this subsection shall be reduced by the amount of any duties, taxes, and fees
previously refunded to a person with respect to such merchandise.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae9f470504604043b26b57d821c68984"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Refunds, waivers, or reductions under
certain free trade agreements</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3348968ac6f6414684cdaef061bb1926"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to section 508(b)(2)(B) of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1508(b)(2)(B)), if merchandise that is exported
to a NAFTA country is a good subject to NAFTA drawback, no customs duties on
the good may be refunded, waived, or reduced in an amount that exceeds the
lesser of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa69e3c2dbd8a4282acc5eebd9103b678"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total amount of customs duties paid or
owed on the good on importation into the United States; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0413a6b6dc6041f9ac653f69a193de60"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total amount of customs duties paid on
the good on importation into the NAFTA country.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe8d7fb884f024d9daa9626b3e8bf6bf6"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rule for Canada</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If Canada ceases to be a NAFTA country and
the suspension of the operation of the United States-Canada Free-Trade
Agreement thereafter terminates, then for purposes of subsection (b), the
shipment to Canada during the period such Agreement is in operation of
merchandise made from or substituted for a good eligible for drawback under
section 204(a) of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation
Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–449; 19 U.S.C. 2112 note) does not constitute an
exportation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9b9ee9dd922c44879bb305dfd69f44e5"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rule for Chile</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3c4a0c6bd2f842a88177f44403034e1e"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subsections (b) and (g)(2),
if merchandise that is exported to Chile is a good subject to Chile FTA
drawback, no customs duties on the good may be refunded, waived, or reduced,
except as provided in subparagraph (B).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID21b790883d684c9196156fb6e3e8a27a"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount of customs duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The customs duties referred to in
subparagraph (A) may be refunded, waived, or reduced by—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5a9b9346979e46e98afc88c270ac4c89"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">100 percent during the 8-year period
beginning on January 1, 2004;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe113ce21e7334003af7299e2cfdd4e86"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">75 percent during the 1-year period
beginning on January 1, 2012;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDda2ad650bfee4cd4a7d76a4b56bad03a"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent during the 1-year period
beginning on January 1, 2013; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID149aba75735a4faca9adbf382b16eb3e"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">25 percent during the 1-year period
beginning on January 1, 2014.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0ce02a152f9143fc908270b37877a601"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fungible merchandise exported to NAFTA
countries or Chile</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID37e01c607cbd44029fc8b2772bb5f706"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fungible merchandise exported to NAFTA
countries</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The exportation to
a NAFTA country of merchandise that is fungible with and substituted for
imported merchandise, other than merchandise described in paragraphs (1)
through (8) of section 203(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3333(a)), shall not be treated as an exportation
of substitute merchandise for purposes of drawback under subsection
(b)(3).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2c3836b40f114e94a327db756c632ee8"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fungible merchandise exported to
Chile</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning on January 1,
2015, the exportation to Chile of merchandise that is fungible with and
substituted for imported merchandise, other than merchandise described in
paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 203(a) of the United States-Chile Free
Trade Agreement Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3805 note), shall not be treated
as an exportation of substitute merchandise for purposes of drawback under
subsection (b)(3). The preceding sentence shall not be construed to permit the
substitution of merchandise under subsection (b) with respect to merchandise
described in paragraph (2) of section 203(a) of the United States-Chile Free
Trade Agreement Implementation Act.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID40d9ff8cc2424d768e4ee7c31e018fad"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Proof of exportation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person claiming drawback under this
section shall submit, as proof of exportation, 1 of the following:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID52f793db901b4ba3b39d40d0c2e88a71"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The record of exportation entered in the
United States Government automated export system or, if the exporter is unable
to use that system, evidence of information similar to the information
contained in such a record.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID16ee871ee1a04d9eaddd9d95e400c473"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a drawback claim filed
pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (e), the entry records from
Canada or Mexico.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id903E2CD4EA38477FA563FF50CEBBD0F6"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a deemed export, any record
that establishes the deemed export.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd943eba2d389410497da75290a05299f"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special eligibility rules</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID05adaa90eae145479c288839aed1265e"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Destruction of merchandise</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8981271ea5964909a05e7fece6919472"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility for drawback</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drawback under this section may be claimed
with respect to imported merchandise if—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id608DF5C7BAEA48DEAFF0BEA50A4392A9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the imported merchandise or merchandise
into which the imported merchandise is incorporated—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFEA53A9D75D14A63B3253E5F81E33225"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not exported because of its destruction;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBB9166F3CEA746C880F9873FCF774C1F"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was not used in the United States before
its destruction; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBF964A1F25AF4B62BC71AC938A9B61F9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the person claiming the drawback uses
direct identification to identify the imported merchandise that is destroyed or
incorporated into other merchandise that is destroyed.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9eb3e778c24244c1b1c0a91eff11f0bd"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount of drawback</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subparagraph (C), the amount of
drawback paid pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be the amount of drawback
determined under subsection (d)(1).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf2f93d7d70a346049a4ec55898f39ced"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitations</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21D7303DC49241E9BB08C076BD88D443"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties, taxes, and fees previously
refunded</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of
duties, taxes, and fees to be refunded with respect to imported merchandise
pursuant to this paragraph shall be reduced by the amount of any duties, taxes,
and fees previously refunded to an importer of record or the person claiming
drawback with respect to such merchandise.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB09D743F6DF642A8A5C59A673B328C6B"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Value of materials recovered during
destruction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The value of the
imported merchandise with respect to which drawback is claimed shall be reduced
by the value of any materials recovered during the destruction of the
merchandise (including the value of any tax benefit or royalty payment with
respect to such materials).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDba855f6a7f0a47588b45a51c2e2a7e0e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vessels built for residents of a foreign
country</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Drawback under this
section may be claimed for materials imported and used in the construction and
equipment of vessels built for foreign account and ownership, or for the
government of any foreign country, notwithstanding that such vessels may not
within the strict meaning of the term be exported.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID07efe8a4aef04e8eb3eac6084d3507dc"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agricultural products</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No drawback may be claimed under this
section for an agricultural product with respect to which an over-quota rate of
duty has been paid, unless—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEB459D6013344F64A3AD033A2BD3E979"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the product is identified as the imported
agricultural product using direct identification; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC2F62386BE440C88A40FCD0A5C20FD6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the product has not been used in the United
States.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID90d3c09591d8439ebf2188376bc3021d"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise not regularly
entered</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Imported merchandise
that is not regularly entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption,
does not satisfy the exportation or destruction requirements of this
section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID73e99d45e1124f5dbb83a5598a88dce9"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certain exported merchandise</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd0087d8bbc654e5a848e27b2a0458329"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B),
upon the exportation of flavoring extracts, flavors, medicines, medicinal
preparations, or perfumes manufactured or produced in the United States in part
from domestic alcohol on which an internal revenue tax has been paid, there
shall be allowed a drawback in an amount equal to the tax found to have been
paid on the alcohol so used.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id627713BA6F0C4CE9A8FF49574A38D0F6"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If drawback has been claimed under section
5114 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to flavoring extracts,
flavors, medicines, medicinal preparations, or perfumes manufactured or
produced in the United States, the amount of drawback under this paragraph
shall be limited to $1 per proof gallon.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1EDD21EC549247C4965E1D228ADAC096"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Form of claim</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A claim for drawback under this paragraph
shall be submitted in such form, at such times, and under such conditions as
the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe by regulation.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID12243bc7c9014180b9f33ef8fa00a022"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition on other claims for
drawback</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise that is
exported or destroyed to satisfy a claim for drawback shall not be the basis of
any other claim for drawback, except that appropriate credit and deductions for
claims covering components or ingredients of such merchandise shall be made in
computing drawback payments.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9C41DAFC1FE4483DA918C7AFE427A036"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Liability for claim</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA993364C62C94B478A587161C3C62AC4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any person making a claim for drawback with
respect to imported merchandise shall be liable for the full amount of the
drawback on the imported merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA32CD80E39A84E19953E60AA57A5783F"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Liability of importers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An importer shall be liable for any
drawback claim made by another person with respect to imported merchandise in
an amount equal to the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that the importer
authorizes the other person to claim with respect to the imported
merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C449476E5C84E31ADF9F6470381ABE9"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint and several liability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any person described in paragraphs (1) and
(2) shall be jointly and severally liable for the amount described in paragraph
(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB824BC101356468982FC2D65920F7AD0"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Order of recovery</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury shall seek to
recover the amount of the drawback from a person described in paragraph (1)
before seeking recovery from an importer described in paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDca3085e25f4d4a8d9e55ad498d55f768"><enum>(j)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment from receipts of Puerto
Rico</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A drawback under this
section for merchandise shall be paid from the customs receipts of Puerto Rico
if the duties for such merchandise were originally paid into the Treasury of
Puerto Rico.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8799d4aa84d34243b3f5384b9d9af9d1"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming
amendments</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85a78c26a516471e8dff7ccdd75a113e"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Refunds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 505(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930
(19 U.S.C. 1505(b)), is amended by adding at the end the following:
<quote>Refunds of excess moneys deposited, as determined on a liquidation or
reliquidation, shall be reduced by any amount paid, on an accelerated basis or
otherwise, to a person claiming drawback pursuant to section
313.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID66e0f2511f7d4efcab2d69779ec9e231"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review of protests</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The second sentence of section 515(a) of
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1515(a)) is amended by striking the period at
the end and inserting <quote>in accordance with section 505.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73A0F1F9CADF4C27BB5E119B06EC712D"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Refunds, waivers, and reductions of duty
under NAFTA</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
508(b)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1508(b)(2)(B)) is amended by
striking <quote>section 313(n)(2) or (o)(1)</quote> and inserting
<quote>section 313(e)(1)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0b2cf612f4564f479327d427b596e9e7"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9660E5507FC64F5DA023C0E58A063E06"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section
shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9DEEF08D2E7B49949BD03EA591D4918C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">take effect on the date on which the
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection publishes in the Federal
Register a finding that the Automated Commercial Environment computer system is
the exclusive system of record in the United States for filing entry summaries;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60C16B6FADEF4DFC957DA4890647A406"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in paragraph (2), apply
to drawback claims filed with respect to merchandise that enters the United
States on or after such date.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id769DE58A11204BFF8B5D1B8F22925029"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transition rule</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the 1-year period beginning on the
date described in paragraph (1)(A), a person may elect to file a claim for
drawback under—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id466BB01E8BD44C9AA7ABC6F5AD750FB1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended by this section; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8BC83453A82446D5AFFB3722110ED973"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
in effect on the day before the date described in paragraph (1)(A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05D75E39BD504BC2A360E2BA0D50E0A0"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government Accountability Office
report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than October
1, 2012, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives a report that contains—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDFDFFB36F7FC49C7854467D9D9227E26"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an evaluation of the costs and benefits to
the Federal Government, and the benefits to the private sector, resulting from
the implementation of section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by this
section; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD71E04001C1F48029DA192CF0BFD06A2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an assessment of the extent to which the
implementation of such section 313 may permit a person claiming drawback with
respect to imported merchandise to receive drawback in excess of the duties,
taxes, or fees paid on the imported merchandise.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id182E3BDF50E1417BAB67D8B3A8794CD5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Penalties for customs brokers</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBDF616BFF6BA4ADDB1E346AD2A23E197"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 641(d)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930
(19 U.S.C. 1641(d)(1)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4FE7833588BB4700AA0AB325FC9F2D2F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>;
or</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65B22F7424DF4791998D983857E6BE55"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (F), by striking the period
and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE53C1F050C24453ABA9A327C770965DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC9D06E6285D4B588690151FB65D3C5E" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC6C6FC30798945FCAB61158DACB94C98"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has been convicted of committing or
conspiring to commit an act of terrorism described in section 2332b of title
18, United States Code.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4041066552754926A1D6A8C7541741E2"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1641) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2709730523E9421F90A7D09A147DC34F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g)(2)(B), by striking
<quote>Secretary's notice</quote> and inserting <quote>notice under
subparagraph (A)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88BBB686A9B04C418F0515C701AA7262"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Customs Service</quote>
each place it appears and inserting <quote>U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36FFA5ADA66E4A579340383234710CAE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Articles repaired or altered</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idABC15C96903D4821ACC41C1BE51E40EE"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Articles exported and returned, not
advanced or improved in condition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subchapter I of chapter 98 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1D4E9718480E4D0E856E9D1C470BDF19"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the article description for the item
relating to subheading 9801.00.20, by inserting <quote>bailment agreements, or
for warehousing, repackaging, or both,</quote> after <quote>similar use
agreements,</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2B04817AD7884E598C99CF6E536B596E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end of the U.S. Notes the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4A2477991E444226A32AEDEE34FDB494" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E94362291F44CFFB3E3017D96833983"><enum>3.<?LEXA-Enum 3.?></enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id82E03386DE904528B235C1C17CCAC1D6"><enum>(a)<?LEXA-Enum (a)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subheading 9801.00.20,
fungible goods exported from the United States—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC521F285F5174924AE271D478720EC71" indent="up1"><enum>(i)<?LEXA-Enum (i)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may be
commingled; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7733A74E38F4E6BB78677F2331D96F4" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)<?LEXA-Enum (ii)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the origin,
value, and classification of such goods may be accounted for using an inventory
management method.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B42C2646F5E4CAA97913A46EAE50933"><enum>(b)<?LEXA-Enum (b)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a person chooses to use an inventory
management method under subdivision (a) with respect to fungible goods, the
person shall use the same inventory management method for those goods with
respect to which the person claims fungibility.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2D7346BA72AA4DD4B7535FC44AAA8DD7"><enum>(c)<?LEXA-Enum (c)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this note—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC3B977FD71DF4CD682FFCDFFC8BC84FF"><enum>(i)<?LEXA-Enum (i)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>fungible good</term> means
any good that is commercially identical to another good in all instances;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A59F06790FC4AE5A09B538A62C9B0AE"><enum>(ii)<?LEXA-Enum (ii)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>inventory management
method</term> means any method for managing inventory that is based on
generally accepted accounting principles.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E998AF77E6F4C778B4B6C40D929A8B6"><enum>4.<?LEXA-Enum 4.?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subheading
9801.00.26—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF13DBC6C08804835A410D55F2A199A00"><enum>(a)<?LEXA-Enum (a)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an article is sold for exportation and
exported to an individual outside of the United States for personal use if the
article—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA23A65815A624D448DF0B5B821146F9B"><enum>(i)<?LEXA-Enum (i)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is sold to the individual through the
Internet or a catalogue or in any other similar manner; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A945C2AA2254F0F8E8691989DD61401"><enum>(ii)<?LEXA-Enum (ii)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">delivered to the individual from a
warehouse, distribution center, or similar facility in the United States;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7C4638BCE7844EBB82EB297F435E6788"><enum>(b)<?LEXA-Enum (b)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an article exported to an individual under
subdivision (a) is reimported as a personal return if the article is—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id771676B73C344474B8554FCE968D9268"><enum>(i)<?LEXA-Enum (i)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">returned by the individual to the
warehouse, distribution center, or similar facility in the United States from
which the article was delivered; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6951D548DBB34CEA84D6F798F8FE2924"><enum>(ii)<?LEXA-Enum (ii)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">resold, without regard to whom the article
is
resold.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7B91D7965B04C789533201FEFAE3692"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Articles exported and returned, advanced or
improved abroad</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subchapter II
of chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended
by adding at the end of U.S. Note 3 the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51DD5781432A4DADBF93B453D23045BC" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37CB5B3BA0C94BFABA8AEB22621C2970"><enum>(f)<?LEXA-Enum (f)?></enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id107AD6E4C7F54A1BA8235ED2A13BEF59"><enum>(i)<?LEXA-Enum (i)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subheadings 9802.00.40 and
9802.00.50, fungible goods exported from the United States for the purposes
described in such subheadings—</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id40331B1787664ADDB24360839914696C"><enum>(A)<?LEXA-Enum (A)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may be commingled; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4AEFA405EAD949CE845CB0B8D704BB9E"><enum>(B)<?LEXA-Enum (B)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the origin, value, and classification of
such goods may be accounted for using an inventory management method.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C16EB4F700F43E586FB3FB9C1C803F5" indent="down1"><enum>(ii)<?LEXA-Enum (ii)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a person
chooses to use an inventory management method under this subdivision with
respect to fungible goods, the person shall use the same inventory management
method for those goods with respect to which the person claims
fungibility.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0BE9CCA67AA64905B7DA4DB229EF32B6" indent="down1"><enum>(iii)<?LEXA-Enum (iii)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For
purposes of this subdivision—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id425F8429BB224CD2BD1EEE94DAE4B457"><enum>(A)<?LEXA-Enum (A)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term
<term>fungible good</term> means any good that is commercially identical to
another good in all instances; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB3BEF5869A094503BE4010A499700DE3"><enum>(B)<?LEXA-Enum (B)?></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term
<term>inventory management method</term> means any method for managing
inventory that is based on generally accepted accounting
principles.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFDC2F3635FF94E1C834826EDDC5974E1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Charter flights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 13031(e)(1) of the Consolidated
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(e)(1)) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID19d031bc48e74990966053451b510390"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(1) Notwithstanding
section 451 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1451) or any other provision
of law (other than paragraph (2))</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8605DADC250A45FB9781F3CDEED94CAA" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID253ba61317dd4d0f8042a1692b3c74ae" indent="up1"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7EA7A7F1FE044A5B9E9A04C5972352F0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 451 of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1451) or any other provision of law (other than
subparagraph (B) and paragraph (2))</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbad06915b6624834847316262b14517e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28E792D9D56E452FA46F61DFB768236C" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C5CEBE957074B21B5C7D5868D190738" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id0CADCDC6EAF54FF8B86417639F66CDFB"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An appropriate officer of the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency may assign a sufficient number of employees from
the Agency (if available) to perform services described in clause (ii) for a
charter air carrier (as defined in section 40102(a)(13) of title 49, United
States Code) for a charter flight arriving after normal operating hours at an
airport that is an established port of entry serviced by the Agency,
notwithstanding that overtime funds for those services are not available, if
the charter air carrier—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4C90FAA28F4B46A0B58C0CBE444F7EFD" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than 4 hours before the flight
arrives, specifically requests that such services be provided; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEEE62166B0E7498E878DDE14EFDD3F4A" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pays any overtime fees incurred in
connection with such services.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDBE2314C50F84E99892D1EC1981640F0" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Services described in this clause are
customs services for passengers and their baggage or any other such service
that could lawfully be performed during regular hours of
operation.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4841a188853b4d5684df6c352d508ab3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>306.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Symposium fees</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8d5fa3b01be140d1bda5867a75d40650"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security may
collect fees from any non-Federal participant in a conference, seminar,
exhibition, symposium, or similar meeting conducted by the Department of
Homeland Security in advance of such a meeting to offset the costs to the
Department of conducting the meeting.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4d014a8e85b8486f8a3bfd707efff370"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Excess fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any fees collected by the Secretary
pursuant to subsection (a) that exceed the actual costs to the Department of
conducting a meeting referred to in that subsection shall be deposited into the
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2583D8F18D4B4CF2AF2EFB782AFAD64E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program for establishing 24-hour
commercial land border ports of entry</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc2b1166cadc8467cad3d4510b41bb520"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President shall establish a pilot
program under which the President shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID802820fa0a2e4dd6aa51b1402b54e8fa"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pursuant to chapter 223 of the Act of
August 1, 1914 (19 U.S.C. 2), designate certain land border crossings as
commercial ports of entry in accordance with subsection (b); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB07C4CBD33FA4854BC2388E34BC1FAEC"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure that each commercial port of entry
designated under paragraph (1) has sufficient resources—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4334BC75F9BC4F8EB9639C0AFFEDDCD5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out the functions of a commercial
port of entry, including accepting entries of merchandise, collecting duties,
and enforcing the customs and trade laws of the United States; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc5b0131c1bf54689a106d05fa9c1b234"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to perform the functions described in
subparagraph (A) 24 hours a day.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5a30575f1482447fa1cdf67ad77d9bdd"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Designation</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeb1b43d514384083977440cdaecbfffd"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall designate as 24-hour commercial
ports of entry under the pilot program—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0C55E5C807A249EBB358CE562938879F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 1 and not more than 3 land
border crossings on the northern border of the United States that meet the
criteria described in paragraph (2); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4E445EE65EFA46E8B620F7984253D00A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 1 and not more than 3 land
border crossings on the southern border of the United States that meet the
criteria described in paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8fe9e852b0204ecc963ba38dfe6f364e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Criteria for designation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The criteria described in this paragraph
are, with respect to a land border crossing, the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID600abf8c9ea148ff8a01a72dd28530c8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The land border crossing is located in a
State that has 2 or fewer 24-hour commercial ports of entry.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID50bbc76d48bd478380146310719313a6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The land border crossing is located on land
owned by the United States Government.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID87d17d92a0e94c1183ec93ee07bdd356"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An environmental assessment has been made
of the land on which the border crossing is located.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID959a7f2486db4c7183103848fb0b4d11"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The costs associated with the designation
of the land border crossing as a commercial port of entry do not exceed
$30,000,000.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID243f6f549e8f4046b304d4e0fe3179d1"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Based on an economic study, a determination
is made that the designation will have a positive economic impact on the local
community where the land border crossing is located.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95086944a58f40ef9b6916c6209c3bcd"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The appropriate authorities of the
Government of Canada or Mexico, as the case may be, have expressed an intention
to commit resources to a similar designation of a corresponding foreign
port.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0b22334700a6467bb0ae48909cc2c41e"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State or local government has
demonstrated support for the designation through infrastructure improvements to
facilitate the operation of the land border crossing as a 24-hour commercial
port of entry.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID96761db9903a4be8a6c0aaa59a1eb608"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days before the President
makes a determination under subsection (d)(1), the President shall submit to
the Committee on Finance of the Senate and Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives a report that provides—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcbeca84ed1c546e1878a273e80d8623e"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a comparison of the vehicle traffic
crossing at each land border crossing—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84535D653679427BBD28920CF75192C9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">before the designation of the crossing as a
24-hour commercial port of entry under the pilot program; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3D7611D1093B483CB1A739B2915B605C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the port of entry becomes fully
operational as a 24-hour commercial port of entry under the pilot
program;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID25fb27a4e00c4bb9a83d166a6c703cfc"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an estimate of the total value of
commercial goods that crossed each land border crossing designated as a 24-hour
commercial port of entry after becoming fully operational as a 24-hour
commercial port of entry; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdbcdf4d51dd94e319f5d229e36d92a04"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a comparison of—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id472F77B87E8D434891A6E9F4F54689E6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wait times at other ports of entry in each
State in which a port of entry is designated as a 24-hour commercial port of
entry under the pilot program during the 2-year period preceding the
designation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9F92B4599CBE4ECCBFAFC1108849ED2D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wait times at such other ports of entry in
the State after the port of entry in the State designated as a 24-hour
commercial port of entry becomes fully operational as a 24-hour commercial port
of entry.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa08b95e1dc8d4325aaaf1e21c525d771"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id576A0008F4CB459497F37424F8EE6E4A"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination of economic
benefit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the
date that is 2 years after the date on which a port of entry becomes fully
operational as a 24-hour commercial port of entry under the pilot program, the
President shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1A75427AF5794B8387FE9472931C7FBA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine whether the operation of the port
of entry 24 hours a day provides a net economic benefit to the United States;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84F1B802FA7A478C9CAE7EB9052397C0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the Committee on Finance of the
Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a
report on that determination and the reasons for that determination.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3324C0347FE04474A0883AF7BEFD361A"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the President determines under paragraph
(1) that operating a port of entry 24 hours a day does not provide a net
economic benefit to the United States, that port of entry shall cease to
operate 24 hours a day on the date on which the President submits the report
under paragraph (1)(B).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDac459114719c42d69f5cdcebb8c7c630" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>308.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition on importation of goods made
with forced or indentured labor or by benefit of human trafficking</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD2F57397D35A4C9AA6FBDEC03C68C690"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Goods made with forced labor</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcd282fea7f7f4dada3f76757dccbeb57"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1307) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84193DE38B374305AAA6CC2D89BF25DB" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDef534c91a5884c299429ac6d306ad289" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition on importation of goods made
with forced or indentured labor or by benefit of human trafficking</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE888746CC6514963948C11697D820177"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition on importation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No good may be imported into the United
States, if that good was produced, in whole or in part—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0e0959f94351415ab195d161ccf13330"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with convict labor, forced labor, or
indentured labor under penal sanctions;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe9f38f24aec94dfa8d1ef513385431a8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by means of coercion (as defined in section
103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)),
including by means of an employer withholding the passport or other travel
documents of a foreign worker in order to compel the production of that good;
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID87b0c523672d4a8eb294cb88400f2e2d"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by 1 or more individuals who, at the time
of the production were being subjected to a severe form of trafficking in
persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae4f57c7721642fb9ee50b1329844ad9"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Civil penalties</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDddb769ff9a174b77b9014b77f2c7f740"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any person who violates any provision of
this section or any regulation issued under this section may, in addition to
any other civil or criminal penalty that may be imposed under this Act or title
18, United States Code, or any other provision of law, be assessed a civil
penalty by the Secretary of Homeland Security of not more than—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDddbe6151055d45ffa374e479e8db1b6f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the first violation, an amount equal to
3 times the value of the goods imported or attempted to be imported in
violation of this section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc08ed652a548449eaf8d790a3b5d1f7a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the second and subsequent violations,
an amount equal to 6 times the value of the goods imported or attempted to be
imported in violation of this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID10f4fa170b37498a93bc19f40529629f"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debarment</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7d4bfcac29e740938e7672433f6f3e1f"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may prohibit a person from
importing any good into the United States, or exporting any good from the
United States, if the Secretary finds that the person has engaged in a pattern
or practice of actions that has resulted in a final determination with respect
to the assessment of civil or criminal penalties for knowing and intentional or
grossly negligent violations of any provision of this section or any regulation
issued under this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDa88a988f445046178c5f09c2a339360d"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reinstatement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may retract a prohibition
imposed with respect to a person under subparagraph (A) if the Secretary
determines that changed circumstances warrant such a retraction.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe778c95698b348e0a48cc82151a8f619"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No penalty may be assessed under this
section against a person for violating a provision of this section or a
regulation issued under this section unless the person is given notice and
opportunity for a hearing with respect to such violation in accordance with
section 554 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID92c08601c2774fd0b0ee450228ca36c5"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfa61e1c4d5d74a4a98f4be968c92d1cb"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child labor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>forced labor</term> and
<term>indentured labor</term> include forced or indentured child labor.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfae6f9c71b9f4755855423ab18a7dd38"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Convict labor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>convict labor</term> means
work performed by an individual while imprisoned by a foreign government and
without compensation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9ad9245d66334c83808da5f31dec3526"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Forced labor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>forced labor</term> means
all work or service that is exacted from any person under the menace of any
penalty for nonperformance and in which the person does not engage
voluntarily.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7112C029BEE42C49C11F19C87DFF65F"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Goods</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>goods</term> means goods,
wares, articles, and merchandise.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7b8bdaf5f0bf4c89af678c4c8e5318e1"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indentured labor under penal
sanctions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>indentured labor under penal sanctions</term> means work performed under
a contract if the contract can be enforced through the imposition of a penalty
or imprisonment.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0219DC7BCE004B2CBC4E272A5CAE2BB8"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Produced</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>produced</term> means
produced, mined, or
manufactured.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID893ddf2f64084271ad2bdeae56819e54"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by
this subsection applies to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption, on or after the date that is 15 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfa950ac8c9a440469a5c6e7cd73085db"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Monitoring and reporting</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6e66d230664d4492ba24082969f61179"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Office for Labor
Enforcement</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2ff585f263e54a03a2a72446a79dcf94"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established within the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency of the Department of Homeland
Security an Office for Labor Enforcement (in this subsection referred to as the
<quote>Office</quote>) to coordinate enforcement of the prohibition on
importing goods described in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
by this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7204daa694834a3f86dad9bf14277d3e"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistant Director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office shall be headed by the Assistant
Director for Labor Enforcement who shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcfbea526fe3a470abf003f0324d08c2d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be appointed by the Secretary of Homeland
Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDee46c792e968476ab0e3f1e427e823d7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report to the Director of U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID156230103aba4073be05644dff967d37"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Director shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf10ed2dc60264343a9056cc18073290c"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">oversee the investigations of the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency with respect to the prohibition on
importing goods described in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbe6b567b7aef455abc8ad3d56c5457ef"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate efforts to enforce the
prohibition on importing goods described in section 307 of the Tariff Act of
1930, and centralize information collected with respect to that prohibition,
by—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf2b884317621446c9c47a763ba5f7fbf"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6b9ab0a374904fdcaf4d36622585cb20"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbccfafea9d1c41f5af75fc0b97c707ee"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of the Treasury;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID43ef1a2ab132473bb2ab124b674e137e"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of State;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID432976e56734431388869ed4e5196e44"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Labor;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID56cf43ea1a164e898c4943ad35809e07"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Commerce; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6eecb74def5243e38dc2b2fef054768f"><enum>(VII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Foreign Agricultural Service of the
Department of Agriculture;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID965843d6d69f4eb8813e46bebc5f66b6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate with foreign governments to
prevent the exportation to the United States of goods prohibited under section
307 of the Tariff Act of 1930;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDefa073019c574b41b28914cf512197ba"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prepare and publish the list of producers
described in paragraph (2); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0e15fddf49f7464fbaf36655ba9443c4"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report annually, as described in paragraph
(3), to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and
Means of the House of Representatives.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf1ce59effff94fa699051d7391f44564"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">List of producers</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5454840733AD437AAEA149F36C597FA4"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The list described in this paragraph is a
list compiled and regularly updated by the Assistant Director for Labor
Enforcement that includes the name and country of each producer of goods the
importation of which is prohibited under section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
The list and regular updates shall be published in the Federal Register.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3670599897AF41A5AF617305E4EC76E1"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Removal from list</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Director may remove a
producer from the list under subparagraph (A) if the Assistant Director
determines that changed circumstances warrant such a removal.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe8850c080cb3409ab092db832050bea7"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The report required by paragraph (1)(C)(vi)
is a report submitted 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and
annually thereafter, that contains the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf2fea0c741e24bf1b14d25926354df17"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The volume and value of goods made with
child labor, convict labor, forced labor, indentured labor under penal
sanctions, or any other coercion (as such terms are defined in section 307 of
the Tariff Act of 1930) that are seized upon arrival in the United
States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfd1147fce0b242699a1293959d6c83e9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A description of the goods described in
subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9bb8a96de3d244cda29a0686110d74ef"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An assessment of the extent to which child
labor, convict labor, forced labor, indentured labor under penal sanctions, or
any other coercion are used in producing goods destined for the United
States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDb95018d7b35748c9aabda56e0d226f27"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The progress being made in identifying and
interdicting goods that are destined for the United States that are made with
child labor, convict labor, forced labor, indentured labor under penal
sanctions, or any other coercion.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1e0db950c3a44ebf915a4cabdbd5bd3b"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The most recent list of producers compiled
pursuant to subsection (b)(2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1dcf7747917c4c20ad6550737b248e19"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office shall also be responsible for
investigations relating to fraud, gross negligence, and negligence under
section 592 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1592) with respect to
violations of section 307 of such Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF97C87D8FF4341AFA2CC323BBE5C6BBC"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 501 of the U.S.-China Relations Act
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 6961) is repealed.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2EC39657013D4566B0BC755FEF651B7F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>309.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Honey transshipment</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20e94baf91e148c3979e63799c39edff"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall direct appropriate personnel and resources of the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection Agency to address concerns that honey is being imported
into the United States in violation of the customs and trade laws of the United
States.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8a4dbdb21e16419fb739f0abee9bf59b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Country of origin</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31D381E407AB4F9FB38148F90A8C1F63"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall compile a database of the individual characteristics of honey
produced in foreign countries to facilitate the verification of country of
origin markings of imported honey.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id092DFFE11E4C462EA4BE774D9A844C41"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Engagement with foreign
governments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner
shall seek to engage the customs agencies of foreign governments for assistance
in compiling the database described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID94b3151a8a0e4217b5918f6c6b83c659"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sense of Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that the
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration should promptly establish a
national standard of identity for honey for the Commissioner of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection to use to ensure that imports of honey are—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3BB683FBD01E46C1AF460F80D9CCDD54"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">classified accurately for purposes of
assessing duties; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2C42B2F51EE04E3F8D2832DFAA08486E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">denied entry into the United States if such
imports pose a threat to the health or safety of consumers in the United
States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3afe399d4e444792afb305f1b94426a6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>310.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contraband archaeological or ethnological
materials</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf84c7d18b8d647c784eaf53267ac16a1"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection shall ensure that appropriate personnel of the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Agency are trained in the detection, identification, and
detention of archaeological or ethnological materials the importation of which
violates the customs and trade laws of the United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe8150a2199ae42428e5c5ff6a2bf5928"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection is authorized to accept training and other support services from
experts outside of the Federal Government in the detection, identification, and
detention of archaeological or ethnological materials described in subsection
(a).</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID29fbdc4d9391451e91ad6b481cb5ce4f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>311.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">De minimis and informal entries</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C8625010DE740F0B35998BB5878B5C2"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">De minimis value</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 321(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C)) is amended by striking <quote>$200</quote> and
inserting <quote>$500</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDca59275da4cc43868594a81bd61b44b2"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Entry under regulations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 498 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1498) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID52e1b983611741748737005ed14ed052"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking paragraph
(1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id408B7C935F2B444A9D356C7B1B9CFDB3" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAB96F4A13A294C46A12CD93F43529189"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Merchandise, when different commercial
facilitation and risk considerations that may vary for different classes or
kinds of merchandise or different classes of transactions may
dictate;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae868a9814db472383630c7e8d160e9a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (b) as
subsection (c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDfadb50a30fc04f60b8163f8c39f9d91a"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (a) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0814D3C9CFAD4E86AC30FB3F485FF6A4" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6AEDAABA3D1452AA0CC58BC266C12EB"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Entry of merchandise valued at $2,500 or
less</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID34e8699c724d40f59352d753963c1897"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe rules and regulations for the
declaration and entry of merchandise if the aggregate value of the shipment of
merchandise does not exceed $2,500.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID80a75cdd10ec40e996912c3205acd838"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The rules and regulations prescribed under
paragraph (1) shall not apply to articles that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCF5FD4C4AFEB4715B25C8CCCABAC78CA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have a value in excess of $250; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15A66C858C0B4559AC80CC2BC156FF52"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are classified under section VII, VIII, XI,
or XII, chapter 94, or subchapter III or IV of chapter 99 of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United
States.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section>