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<meta><dc:title>114 HR 644 ENR: To reauthorize trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions and activities, and for other purposes.</dc:title><dc:type>House Bill</dc:type><docNumber>644</docNumber><dc:creator>United States House of Representatives</dc:creator><dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>EN</dc:language><dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights><docStage>ENR</docStage>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>644</docNumber><congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="114">One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">AT THE SECOND SESSION</session><enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen</enrolledDateline></preface>
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<docTitle style="-uslm-lc:I665505" class="centered fontsize18">An Act</docTitle>
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<officialTitle style="-uslm-lc:I665511" class="centered fontsize8">To reauthorize trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions and activities, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Short Title</inline>.—</heading><content>This Act may be cited as the <shortTitle role="act">“Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015”</shortTitle>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Table of Contents</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents for this Act is follows:<?GPOvSpace 04?>
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<designator>Sec. 1. </designator>
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<label>Short title; table of contents.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 2. </designator>
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<label>Definitions.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE I—</designator>
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<label>TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 101. </designator>
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<label>Improving partnership programs.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 102. </designator>
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<label>Report on effectiveness of trade enforcement activities.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 103. </designator>
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<label>Priorities and performance standards for customs modernization, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement functions and programs.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 104. </designator>
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<label>Educational seminars to improve efforts to classify and appraise imported articles, to improve trade enforcement efforts, and to otherwise facilitate legitimate international trade.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 105. </designator>
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<label>Joint strategic plan.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 106. </designator>
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<label>Automated Commercial Environment.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 107. </designator>
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<label>International Trade Data System.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 108. </designator>
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<label>Consultations with respect to mutual recognition arrangements.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 109. </designator>
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<label>Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 110. </designator>
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<label>Centers of Excellence and Expertise.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 111. </designator>
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<label>Commercial risk assessment targeting and trade alerts.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 112. </designator>
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<label>Report on oversight of revenue protection and enforcement measures.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 113. </designator>
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<label>Report on security and revenue measures with respect to merchandise transported in bond.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 114. </designator>
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<label>Importer of record program.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 115. </designator>
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<label>Establishment of importer risk assessment program.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 116. </designator>
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<label>Customs broker identification of importers.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 117. </designator>
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<label>Priority trade issues.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 118. </designator>
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<label>Appropriate congressional committees defined.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE II—</designator>
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<label>IMPORT HEALTH AND SAFETY</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 201. </designator>
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<label>Interagency import safety working group.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 202. </designator>
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<label>Joint import safety rapid response plan.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 203. </designator>
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<label>Training.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE III—</designator>
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<label>IMPORT-RELATED PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 301. </designator>
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<label>Definition of intellectual property rights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 302. </designator>
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<label>Exchange of information related to trade enforcement.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 303. </designator>
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<label>Seizure of circumvention devices.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 304. </designator>
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<label>Enforcement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of works for which copyright registration is pending.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 305. </designator>
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<label>National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 306. </designator>
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<label>Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 307. </designator>
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<label>Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of intellectual property rights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 308. </designator>
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<label>Training with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 309. </designator>
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<label>International cooperation and information sharing.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 310. </designator>
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<label>Report on intellectual property rights enforcement.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 311. </designator>
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<label>Information for travelers regarding violations of intellectual property rights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE IV—</designator>
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<label>PREVENTION OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 401. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 402. </designator>
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<label>Definitions.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 403. </designator>
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<label>Application to Canada and Mexico.</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator>
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<label>Actions Relating to Enforcement of Trade Remedy Laws</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 411. </designator>
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<label>Trade remedy law enforcement division.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 412. </designator>
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<label>Collection of information on evasion of trade remedy laws.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 413. </designator>
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<label>Access to information.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 414. </designator>
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<label>Cooperation with foreign countries on preventing evasion of trade remedy laws.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 415. </designator>
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<label>Trade negotiating objectives.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator>
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<label>Investigation of Evasion of Trade Remedy Laws</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 421. </designator>
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<label>Procedures for investigating claims of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator>
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<label>Other Matters</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 431. </designator>
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<label>Allocation and training of personnel.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 432. </designator>
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<label>Annual report on prevention and investigation of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 433. </designator>
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<label>Addressing circumvention by new shippers.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE V—</designator>
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<label>SMALL BUSINESS TRADE ISSUES AND STATE TRADE COORDINATION</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 501. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 502. </designator>
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<label>Outreach and input from small businesses to trade promotion authority.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 503. </designator>
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<label>State Trade Expansion Program.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 504. </designator>
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<label>State and Federal Export Promotion Coordination.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 505. </designator>
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<label>State trade coordination.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE VI—</designator>
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<label>ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 601. </designator>
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<label>Trade enforcement priorities.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 602. </designator>
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<label>Exercise of WTO authorization to suspend concessions or other obligations under trade agreements.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 603. </designator>
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<label>Trade monitoring.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 604. </designator>
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<label>Establishment of Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 605. </designator>
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<label>Inclusion of interest in certain distributions of antidumping duties and countervailing duties.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 606. </designator>
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<label>Illicitly imported, exported, or trafficked cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 607. </designator>
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<label>Enforcement under title III of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to certain acts, policies, and practices.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 608. </designator>
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<label>Honey transshipment.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 609. </designator>
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<label>Establishment of Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 610. </designator>
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<label>Measures relating to countries that deny adequate protection for intellectual property rights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 611. </designator>
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<label>Trade Enforcement Trust Fund.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE VII—</designator>
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<label>ENGAGEMENT ON CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE AND ECONOMIC POLICIES</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 701. </designator>
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<label>Enhancement of engagement on currency exchange rate and economic policies with certain major trading partners of the United States.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 702. </designator>
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<label>Advisory Committee on International Exchange Rate Policy.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE VIII—</designator>
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<label>MATTERS RELATING TO U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator>
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<label>Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 801. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 802. </designator>
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<label>Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator>
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<label>Preclearance Operations</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 811. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 812. </designator>
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<label>Definitions.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 813. </designator>
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<label>Establishment of preclearance operations.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 814. </designator>
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<label>Notification and certification to Congress.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 815. </designator>
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<label>Protocols.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 816. </designator>
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<label>Lost and stolen passports.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 817. </designator>
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<label>Recovery of initial U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations costs.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 818. </designator>
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<label>Collection and disposition of funds collected for immigration inspection services and preclearance activities.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 819. </designator>
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<label>Application to new and existing preclearance operations.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>TITLE IX—</designator>
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<label>MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</label></referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 901. </designator>
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<label>De minimis value.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 902. </designator>
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<label>Consultation on trade and customs revenue functions.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 903. </designator>
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<label>Penalties for customs brokers.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 904. </designator>
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<label>Amendments to chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 905. </designator>
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<label>Exemption from duty of residue of bulk cargo contained in instruments of international traffic previously exported from the United States.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 906. </designator>
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<label>Drawback and refunds.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 907. </designator>
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<label>Report on certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection agreements.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 908. </designator>
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<label>Charter flights.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 909. </designator>
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<label>United States-Israel trade and commercial enhancement.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 910. </designator>
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<label>Elimination of consumptive demand exception to prohibition on importation of goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor; report.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 911. </designator>
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<label>Voluntary reliquidations by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</label>
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</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 912. </designator>
|
||
<label>Tariff classification of recreational performance outerwear.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 913. </designator>
|
||
<label>Modifications to duty treatment of protective active footwear.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 914. </designator>
|
||
<label>Amendments to Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 915. </designator>
|
||
<label>Trade preferences for Nepal.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 916. </designator>
|
||
<label>Agreement by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members to reduce rates of duty on certain environmental goods.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 917. </designator>
|
||
<label>Amendment to Tariff Act of 1930 to require country of origin marking of certain castings.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 918. </designator>
|
||
<label>Inclusion of certain information in submission of nomination for appointment as Deputy United States Trade Representative.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 919. </designator>
|
||
<label>Sense of Congress on the need for a miscellaneous tariff bill process.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 920. </designator>
|
||
<label>Customs user fees.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 921. </designator>
|
||
<label>Increase in penalty for failure to file return of tax.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem><referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 922. </designator>
|
||
<label>Permanent moratorium on Internet access taxes and on multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</content>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> In this Act:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Automated commercial environment</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“Automated Commercial Environment”</term> means the Automated Commercial Environment computer system authorized under section 13031(f)(4) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/f/4">19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(4)</ref>).</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commercial operations of u.s. customs and border protection</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</term> includes—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> administering any customs revenue function (as defined in section 415 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s215">6 U.S.C. 215</ref>));</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> coordinating efforts of the Department of Homeland Security with respect to trade facilitation and trade enforcement;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><chapeau> coordinating with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with respect to—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> investigations relating to trade enforcement; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> the development and implementation of the joint strategic plan required by section 105;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> coordinating, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, efforts among Federal agencies to facilitate legitimate trade and to enforce the customs and trade laws of the United States, including representing the Department of Homeland Security in interagency fora addressing such efforts;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> coordinating with customs authorities of foreign countries to facilitate legitimate international trade and enforce the customs and trade laws of the United States and the customs and trade laws of foreign countries;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><chapeau> collecting, assessing, and disseminating information as appropriate and in accordance with any law regarding cargo destined for the United States—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> to ensure that such cargo complies with the customs and trade laws of the United States; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> to facilitate the legitimate international trade of such cargo;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> (G)</num><chapeau> soliciting and considering on a regular basis input from private sector entities, including the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee established by section 109 and the Trade Support Network, with respect to, as appropriate—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> the implementation of changes to the customs and trade laws of the United States; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> the development, implementation, or revision of policies or regulations administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="H"> (H)</num><content> otherwise advising the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the development of policies associated with facilitating legitimate trade and enforcing the customs and trade laws of the United States.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“Commissioner”</term> means the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as described in section 411(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by section 802(a) of this Act.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Customs and trade laws of the united states</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“customs and trade laws of the United States”</term> includes the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> The Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1202/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1202 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Section 249 of the Revised Statutes (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3">19 U.S.C. 3</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Section 2 of the Act of March 4, 1923 (<ref href="/us/stat/42/1453/ch251">42 Stat. 1453, chapter 251</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s6">19 U.S.C. 6</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> The Act of March 3, 1927 (<ref href="/us/stat/44/1381/ch348">44 Stat. 1381, chapter 348</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> Section 13031 of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c">19 U.S.C. 58c</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> Section 251 of the Revised Statutes (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s66">19 U.S.C. 66</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> (G)</num><content> Section 1 of the Act of June 26, 1930 (<ref href="/us/stat/46/817/ch617">46 Stat. 817, chapter 617</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s68">19 U.S.C. 68</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="H"> (H)</num><content> The Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/stat/48/998/ch590">48 Stat. 998, chapter 590</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s81a/etseq">19 U.S.C. 81a et seq.</ref>; commonly known as the “Foreign Trade Zones Act”).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> Section 1 of the Act of March 2, 1911 (<ref href="/us/stat/36/965/ch191">36 Stat. 965, chapter 191</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s198">19 U.S.C. 198</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="J"> (J)</num><content> The Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2101/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="K"> (K)</num><content> The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2501/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="L"> (L)</num><content> The North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3301/etseq">19 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="M"> (M)</num><content> The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3501/etseq">19 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="N"> (N)</num><content> The Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2701/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="O"> (O)</num><content> The Andean Trade Preference Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3201/etseq">19 U.S.C. 3201 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="P"> (P)</num><content> The African Growth and Opportunity Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3701/etseq">19 U.S.C. 3701 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="Q"> (Q)</num><content> The Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 (<ref href="/us/pl/99/570">Public Law 99–570</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/100/3207">100 Stat. 3207</ref>–79).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="R"> (R)</num><content> The Customs and Trade Act of 1990 (<ref href="/us/pl/101/382">Public Law 101–382</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/104/629">104 Stat. 629</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="S"> (S)</num><content> The Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 (<ref href="/us/pl/95/410">Public Law 95–410</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/92/888">92 Stat. 888</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="T"> (T)</num><content> The Trade Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/pl/107/210">Public Law 107–210</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/116/933">116 Stat. 933</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="U"> (U)</num><content> The Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2601/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="V"> (V)</num><content> The Act of March 28, 1928 (<ref href="/us/stat/45/374/ch266">45 Stat. 374, chapter 266</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2077/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2077 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="W"> (W)</num><content> The Act of August 7, 1939 (<ref href="/us/stat/53/1262/ch566">53 Stat. 1262, chapter 566</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="X"> (X)</num><content> The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4201/etseq">19 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="Y"> (Y)</num><content> The Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/27">Public Law 114–27</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/362">129 Stat. 362</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="Z"> (Z)</num><content> Any other provision of law implementing a trade agreement.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="AA"> (AA)</num><content> Any other provision of law vesting customs revenue functions in the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="BB"> (BB)</num><content> Any other provision of law relating to trade facilitation or trade enforcement that is administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on behalf of any Federal agency that is required to participate in the International Trade Data System established under section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="CC"> (CC)</num><content> Any other provision of customs or trade law administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Private sector entity</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“private sector entity”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> an importer;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> an exporter;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> a forwarder;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> an air, sea, or land carrier or shipper;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> a contract logistics provider;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> a customs broker; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> (G)</num><content> any other person (other than an employee of a government) affected by the implementation of the customs and trade laws of the United States.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade enforcement</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“trade enforcement”</term> means the enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade facilitation</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“trade facilitation”</term> refers to policies and activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to facilitating the movement of merchandise into and out of the United States in a manner that complies with the customs and trade laws of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="I">TITLE I—</num><heading>TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="101">SEC. 101. </num><heading>IMPROVING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>In order to advance the security, trade enforcement, and trade facilitation missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Commissioner shall ensure that partnership programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection established before the date of the enactment of this Act, such as the Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism established under subtitle B of title II of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s961/etseq">6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.</ref>), and partnership programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection established on or after such date of enactment, provide trade benefits to private sector entities that meet the requirements for participation in those programs established by the Commissioner under this section.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Elements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In developing and operating partnership programs under subsection (a), the Commissioner shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> consult with private sector entities, the public, and other Federal agencies when appropriate, to ensure that participants in those programs receive commercially significant and measurable trade benefits, including providing preclearance of merchandise for qualified persons that demonstrate the highest levels of compliance with the customs and trade laws of the United States, regulations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and other requirements the Commissioner determines to be necessary;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> ensure an integrated and transparent system of trade benefits and compliance requirements for all partnership programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> consider consolidating partnership programs in situations in which doing so would support the objectives of such programs, increase participation in such programs, enhance the trade benefits provided to participants in such programs, and enhance the allocation of the resources of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><chapeau> coordinate with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other Federal agencies with authority to detain and release merchandise entering the United States—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> to ensure coordination in the release of such merchandise through the Automated Commercial Environment, or its predecessor, and the International Trade Data System established under section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> to ensure that the partnership programs of those agencies are compatible with the partnership programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> to develop criteria for authorizing the release, on an expedited basis, of merchandise for which documentation is required from one or more of those agencies to clear or license the merchandise for entry into the United States; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> to create pathways, within and among the appropriate Federal agencies, for qualified persons that demonstrate the highest levels of compliance with the customs and trade laws of the United States to receive immediate clearance absent information that a transaction may pose a national security or compliance threat; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> ensure that trade benefits are provided to participants in partnership programs.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report Required</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not later than December 31 of each calendar year thereafter, the Commissioner shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> identifies each partnership program referred to in subsection (a);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> for each such program, identifies—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the requirements for participants in the program;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the commercially significant and measurable trade benefits provided to participants in the program;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> the number of participants in the program; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> in the case of a program that provides for participation at multiple tiers, the number of participants at each such tier;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> identifies the number of participants enrolled in more than one such partnership program;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> assesses the effectiveness of each such partnership program in advancing the security, trade enforcement, and trade facilitation missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, based on historical developments, the level of participation in the program, and the evolution of benefits provided to participants in the program;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> summarizes the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to work with other Federal agencies with authority to detain and release merchandise entering the United States to ensure that partnership programs of those agencies are compatible with partnership programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> summarizes criteria developed with those agencies for authorizing the release, on an expedited basis, of merchandise for which documentation is required from one or more of those agencies to clear or license the merchandise for entry into the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> summarizes the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to work with private sector entities and the public to develop and improve such partnership programs;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> describes measures taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to make private sector entities aware of the trade benefits available to participants in such partnership programs; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> summarizes the plans, targets, and goals of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to such partnership programs for the 2 years following the submission of the report.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
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||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="102">SEC. 102. </num><heading>REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF TRADE ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the effectiveness of trade enforcement activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Contents</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The report required by subsection (a) shall include—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> a description of the use of resources, results of audits and verifications, targeting, organization, and training of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> a description of trade enforcement activities to address undervaluation, transshipment, legitimacy of entities making entry, protection of revenues, fraud prevention and detection, and penalties, including intentional misclassification, inadequate bonding, and other misrepresentations; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><chapeau> a description of trade enforcement activities with respect to the priority trade issues described in section 117, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> methodologies used in such enforcement activities, such as targeting;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> recommendations for improving such enforcement activities; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> a description of the implementation of previous recommendations for improving such enforcement activities.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Form of Report</inline>.—</heading><content>The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="103">SEC. 103. </num><heading>PRIORITIES AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR CUSTOMS MODERNIZATION, TRADE FACILITATION, AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT FUNCTIONS AND PROGRAMS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Priorities and Performance Standards</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner, in consultation with the appropriate congressional committees, shall establish priorities and performance standards to measure the development and levels of achievement of the customs modernization, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement functions and programs described in subsection (b).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Minimum priorities and standards</inline>.—</heading><content>Such priorities and performance standards shall, at a minimum, include priorities and standards relating to efficiency, outcome, output, and other types of applicable measures.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Functions and Programs Described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The functions and programs referred to in subsection (a) are the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> The Automated Commercial Environment.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> Each of the priority trade issues described in section 117.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> The Centers of Excellence and Expertise described in section 110.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> Drawback for exported merchandise under section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313">19 U.S.C. 1313</ref>), as amended by section 906 of this Act.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> Transactions relating to imported merchandise in bond.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> Collection of countervailing duties assessed under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.</ref>) and antidumping duties assessed under subtitle B of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1673/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1673 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> The expedited clearance of cargo.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> The issuance of regulations and rulings.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> The issuance of Regulatory Audit Reports.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultations and Notification</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultations</inline>.—</heading><content>The consultations required by subsection (a)(1) shall occur, at a minimum, on an annual basis.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Notification</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of any changes to the priorities or performance standards referred to in subsection (a) not later than 30 days before such changes are to take effect.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="104">SEC. 104. </num><heading>EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS TO IMPROVE EFFORTS TO CLASSIFY AND APPRAISE IMPORTED ARTICLES, TO IMPROVE TRADE ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS, AND TO OTHERWISE FACILITATE LEGITIMATE INTERNATIONAL TRADE.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner and the Director shall establish and carry out on a fiscal year basis educational seminars to—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> improve the ability of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to classify and appraise articles imported into the United States in accordance with the customs and trade laws of the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> improve the trade enforcement efforts of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> otherwise improve the ability and effectiveness of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to facilitate legitimate international trade.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Content</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Classifying and appraising imported articles</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In carrying out subsection (a)(1), the Commissioner, the Director, and interested parties in the private sector selected under subsection (c) shall provide instruction and related instructional materials at each educational seminar carried out under this section to personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and, as appropriate, to personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> Conducting a physical inspection of an article imported into the United States, including testing of samples of the article, to determine if the article is mislabeled in the manifest or other accompanying documentation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Reviewing the manifest and other accompanying documentation of an article imported into the United States to determine if the country of origin of the article listed in the manifest or other accompanying documentation is accurate.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Customs valuation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> Industry supply chains and other related matters as determined to be appropriate by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade enforcement efforts</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In carrying out subsection (a)(2), the Commissioner, the Director, and interested parties in the private sector selected under subsection (c) shall provide instruction and related instructional materials at each educational seminar carried out under this section to personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and, as appropriate, to personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify opportunities to enhance enforcement of the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> Collection of countervailing duties assessed under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.</ref>) and antidumping duties assessed under subtitle B of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1673/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1673 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Addressing evasion of duties on imports of textiles.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Protection of intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> Enforcement of child labor laws.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Approval of commissioner and director</inline>.—</heading><content>The instruction and related instructional materials at each educational seminar carried out under this section shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioner and the Director.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Selection Process</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall establish a process to solicit, evaluate, and select interested parties in the private sector for purposes of assisting in providing instruction and related instructional materials described in subsection (b) at each educational seminar carried out under this section.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Criteria</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall evaluate and select interested parties in the private sector under the process established under paragraph (1) based on—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> availability and usefulness;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the volume, value, and incidence of mislabeling or misidentification of origin of imported articles; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> other appropriate criteria established by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Public availability</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner and the Director shall publish in the Federal Register a detailed description of the process established under paragraph (1) and the criteria established under paragraph (2).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special Rule for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall give due consideration to carrying out an educational seminar under this section in whole or in part to improve the ability of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to enforce a countervailing or antidumping duty order issued under section 706 or 736 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671e">19 U.S.C. 1671e</ref> or 1673e) upon the request of a petitioner in an action underlying such countervailing or antidumping duty order.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interested party</inline>.—</heading><content>A petitioner described in paragraph (1) shall be treated as an interested party in the private sector for purposes of the requirements of this section.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Performance Standards</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner and the Director shall establish performance standards to measure the development and level of achievement of educational seminars carried out under this section.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reporting</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than September 30, 2016, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner and the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the effectiveness of educational seminars carried out under this section.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Director</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“Director”</term> means the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">United states</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“United States”</term> means the customs territory of the United States, as defined in General Note 2 to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">U.S.</inline><inline class="small-caps"> customs and border protection personnel</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel”</term> means import specialists, auditors, and other appropriate employees of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">U.S.</inline><inline class="small-caps"> immigration and customs enforcement personnel</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel”</term> means Homeland Security Investigations Directorate personnel and other appropriate employees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="105">SEC. 105. </num><heading>JOINT STRATEGIC PLAN.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall jointly develop and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a joint strategic plan.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Contents</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The joint strategic plan required under this section shall be comprised of a comprehensive multiyear plan for trade enforcement and trade facilitation, and shall include—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> a summary of actions taken during the 2-year period preceding the submission of the plan to improve trade enforcement and trade facilitation, including a description and analysis of specific performance measures to evaluate the progress of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in meeting each such responsibility;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> a statement of objectives and plans for further improving trade enforcement and trade facilitation;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><chapeau> a specific identification of the priority trade issues described in section 117 that can be addressed in order to enhance trade enforcement and trade facilitation, and a description of strategies and plans for addressing each such issue, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a description of the targeting methodologies used for enforcement activities with respect to each such issue;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> recommendations for improving such enforcement activities; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> a description of the implementation of previous recommendations for improving such enforcement activities;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> a description of efforts made to improve consultation and coordination among and within Federal agencies, and in particular between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, regarding trade enforcement and trade facilitation;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> a description of the training that has occurred to date within U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to improve trade enforcement and trade facilitation, including training at educational seminars carried out under section 104;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> a description of efforts to work with the World Customs Organization and other international organizations, in consultation with other Federal agencies as appropriate, with respect to enhancing trade enforcement and trade facilitation;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> a description of U.S. Custom and Border Protection organizational benchmarks for optimizing staffing and wait times at ports of entry;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> a specific identification of any domestic or international best practices that may further improve trade enforcement and trade facilitation;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> any legislative recommendations to further improve trade enforcement and trade facilitation; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"> (10)</num><content> a description of efforts made to improve consultation and coordination with the private sector to enhance trade enforcement and trade facilitation.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In developing the joint strategic plan required under this section, the Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall consult with—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> appropriate officials from relevant Federal agencies, including—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> the Department of the Treasury;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> the Department of Agriculture;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> the Department of Commerce;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> (iv)</num><content> the Department of Justice;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> (v)</num><content> the Department of the Interior;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="vi"> (vi)</num><content> the Department of Health and Human Services;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="vii"> (vii)</num><content> the Food and Drug Administration;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="viii"> (viii)</num><content> the Consumer Product Safety Commission; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ix"> (ix)</num><content> the Office of the United States Trade Representative; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee established by section 109.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other consultations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In developing the joint strategic plan required under this section, the Commissioner and the Director shall seek to consult with—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> appropriate officials from relevant foreign law enforcement agencies and international organizations, including the World Customs Organization; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> interested parties in the private sector.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Form of Plan</inline>.—</heading><content>The joint strategic plan required under this section shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="106">SEC. 106. </num><heading>AUTOMATED COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Funding</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 13031(f)(4)(B) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/f/4/B">19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(4)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“2003 through 2005”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“2016 through 2018”</quotedText>;</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“such amounts as are available in that Account”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“not less than $153,736,000”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“for the development”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“to complete the development and implementation”</quotedText>.</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than December 31, 2016, 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 a report detailing—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s incorporation of all core trade processing capabilities, including cargo release, entry summary, cargo manifest, cargo financial data, and export data elements, into the Automated Commercial Environment not later than September 30, 2016, to conform with the admissibility criteria of agencies participating in the International Trade Data System identified pursuant to paragraph (4)(A)(iii) of section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>), as added by section 107 of this Act;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s remaining priorities for processing entry summary data elements, cargo manifest data elements, cargo financial data elements, and export elements in the Automated Commercial Environment, and the objectives and plans for implementing these remaining priorities;</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> the components of the National Customs Automation Program specified in section 411(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930 that have not been implemented; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> any additional components of the National Customs Automation Program initiated by the Commissioner to complete the development, establishment, and implementation of the Automated Commercial Environment.</content>
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Update of reports</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than September 30, 2017, 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 paragraph (1), and—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of the Automated Commercial Environment; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> detailing the percentage of trade processed in the Automated Commercial Environment every month since September 30, 2016.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Repeal</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 311(b) of the Customs Border Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2075">19 U.S.C. 2075 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraph (3).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Government Accountability Office Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than December 31, 2017, 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—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> assessing the progress of other Federal agencies in accessing and utilizing the Automated Commercial Environment; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> assessing the potential cost savings to the United States Government and importers and exporters and the potential benefits to enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States if the elements identified in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of subsection (b)(1) are implemented.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="107">SEC. 107. </num><heading>INTERNATIONAL TRADE DATA SYSTEM.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraphs (4) through (7) as paragraphs (5) through (8), respectively;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (3) the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Information technology infrastructure</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary shall work with the head of each agency participating in the ITDS and the Interagency Steering Committee to ensure that each agency—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> develops and maintains the necessary information technology infrastructure to support the operation of the ITDS and to submit all data to the ITDS electronically;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> enters into a memorandum of understanding, or takes such other action as is necessary, to provide for the information sharing between the agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection necessary for the operation and maintenance of the ITDS;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> not later than June 30, 2016, 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 U.S. Customs and Border Protection for incorporation into the operational functionality of the Automated Commercial Environment computer system authorized under section 13031(f)(4) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/f/4">19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(4)</ref>); and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> not later than December 31, 2016, utilizes the ITDS as the primary means of receiving from users the standard set of data and other relevant documentation, exclusive of applications for permits, licenses, or certifications required for the release of imported cargo and clearance of cargo for export.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to require any action to be taken that would compromise an ongoing law enforcement investigation or would compromise national security.”</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> in paragraph (8), as redesignated, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 9503(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071">19 U.S.C. 2071 note</ref>)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 109 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="108">SEC. 108. </num><heading>CONSULTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO MUTUAL RECOGNITION ARRANGEMENTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary of Homeland Security, with respect to any proposed mutual recognition arrangement or similar agreement between the United States and a foreign government providing for mutual recognition of supply chain security programs and customs revenue functions, shall consult with the appropriate congressional committees—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> not later than 30 days before initiating negotiations to enter into any such arrangement or similar agreement; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> not later than 30 days before entering into any such arrangement or similar agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Negotiating Objective</inline>.—</heading><content>It shall be a negotiating objective of the United States in any negotiation for a mutual recognition arrangement or similar agreement with a foreign country on partnership programs, such as the Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism established under subtitle B of title II of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s961/etseq">6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.</ref>), to seek to ensure the compatibility of the partnership programs of that country with the partnership programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to enhance security, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="109">SEC. 109. </num><heading>COMMERCIAL CUSTOMS OPERATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 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 “Advisory Committee”).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Membership</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Advisory Committee shall be comprised of—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> 20 individuals appointed under paragraph (2);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy of the Department of the Treasury and the Commissioner, who shall jointly co-chair meetings of the Advisory Committee; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> the Assistant Secretary for Policy and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who shall serve as deputy co-chairs of meetings of the Advisory Committee.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appointment</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly appoint 20 individuals from the private sector to the Advisory Committee.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In making appointments under subparagraph (A), the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall appoint members—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> to ensure that the membership of the Advisory Committee is representative of the individuals and firms affected by the commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> without regard to political affiliation.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Terms</inline>.—</heading><content>Each individual appointed to the Advisory Committee under this paragraph shall be appointed for a term of not more than 3 years, and may be reappointed to subsequent terms, but may not serve more than 2 terms sequentially.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Transfer of membership</inline>.—</heading><content>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 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071">19 U.S.C. 2071 note</ref>) on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act to the Advisory Committee established under subsection (a).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Advisory Committee established under subsection (a) shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> advise the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security on all matters involving the commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including advising with respect to significant changes that are proposed with respect to regulations, policies, or practices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> provide recommendations to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security on improvements to the commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> collaborate in developing the agenda for Advisory Committee meetings; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> perform such other functions relating to the commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection as prescribed by law or as the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Homeland Security jointly direct.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Meetings</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding section 10(f) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/app">5 U.S.C. App.</ref>), 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 ⅔ of the membership of the Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee shall meet at least 4 times each calendar year.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than December 31, 2016, and annually thereafter, 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—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> describes the activities of the Advisory Committee during the preceding fiscal year; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> sets forth any recommendations of the Advisory Committee regarding the commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Termination</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 14(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/app">5 U.S.C. App.</ref>; relating to the termination of advisory committees) shall not apply to the Advisory Committee.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Effective on the date on which the Advisory Committee is established under subsection (a), section 9503(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071">19 U.S.C. 2071 note</ref>) is <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reference</inline>.—</heading><content>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 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071">19 U.S.C. 2071 note</ref>) made on or after the date on which the Advisory Committee is established under subsection (a), shall be deemed a reference to the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee established under subsection (a).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="110">SEC. 110. </num><heading>CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE AND EXPERTISE.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall, in consultation with the appropriate congressional committees and the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee established under section 109, develop and implement Centers of Excellence and Expertise throughout U.S. Customs and Border Protection that—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> enhance the economic competitiveness of the United States by consistently enforcing the laws and regulations of the United States at all ports of entry of the United States and by facilitating the flow of legitimate trade through increasing industry-based knowledge;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> improve enforcement efforts, including enforcement of priority trade issues described in section 117, in specific industry sectors through the application of targeting information from the National Targeting Center under section 111 and from other means of verification;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> build upon the expertise of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in particular industry operations, supply chains, and compliance requirements;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> promote the uniform implementation at each port of entry of the United States of policies and regulations relating to imports;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> centralize the trade enforcement and trade facilitation efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> formalize an account-based approach to apply, as the Commissioner determines appropriate, to the importation of merchandise into the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> foster partnerships though the expansion of trade programs and other trusted partner programs;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> develop applicable performance measurements to meet internal efficiency and effectiveness goals; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> whenever feasible, facilitate a more efficient flow of information between Federal agencies.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than December 31, 2016, the Commissioner shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the scope, functions, and structure of each Center of Excellence and Expertise developed and implemented under subsection (a);</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the effectiveness of each such Center of Excellence and Expertise in improving enforcement efforts, including enforcement of priority trade issues described in section 117, and facilitating legitimate trade;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> the quantitative and qualitative benefits of each such Center of Excellence and Expertise to the trade community, including through fostering partnerships through the expansion of trade programs such as the Importer Self Assessment program and other trusted partner programs;</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> all applicable performance measurements with respect to each such Center of Excellence and Expertise, including performance measures with respect to meeting internal efficiency and effectiveness goals;</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> the performance of each such Center of Excellence and Expertise in increasing the accuracy and completeness of data with respect to international trade and facilitating a more efficient flow of information between Federal agencies; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> any planned changes in the number, scope, functions, or any other aspect of the Centers of Excellence and Expertise developed and implemented under subsection (a).</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="111">SEC. 111. </num><heading>COMMERCIAL RISK ASSESSMENT TARGETING AND TRADE ALERTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commercial Risk Assessment Targeting</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In carrying out its duties under section 411(g)(4) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as added by section 802(a) of this Act, the National Targeting Center, in coordination with the Office of Trade established under section 4 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (<ref href="/us/stat/44/1381/ch348">44 Stat. 1381, chapter 348</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.</ref>), as added by section 802(h) of this Act, as appropriate, shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> establish targeted risk assessment methodologies and standards—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> for evaluating the risk that cargo destined for the United States may violate the customs and trade laws of the United States, particularly those laws applicable to merchandise subject to the priority trade issues described in section 117; and</content>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> for issuing, as appropriate, Trade Alerts described in subsection (b);</content>
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</subparagraph>
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||
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> to the extent practicable and otherwise authorized by law, use, to administer the methodologies and standards established under paragraph (1)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> publicly available information;</content>
|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> information available from the Automated Commercial System, the Automated Commercial Environment, the Automated Targeting System, the Automated Export System, the International Trade Data System established under section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>), the TECS (formerly known as the “Treasury Enforcement Communications System”), the case management system of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and any successor systems; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> information made available to the National Targeting Center, including information provided by private sector entities;</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> provide for the receipt and transmission to the appropriate U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices of allegations from interested parties in the private sector of violations of customs and trade laws of the United States with respect to merchandise relating to the priority trade issues described in section 117; and</content>
|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> notify, on a timely basis, each interested party in the private sector that has submitted an allegation of any violation of the customs and trade laws of the United States of any civil or criminal actions taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or any other Federal agency resulting from the allegation.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade Alerts</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Issuance</inline>.—</heading><content>In carrying out its duties under section 411(g)(4) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as added by section 802(a) of this Act, and based upon the application of the targeted risk assessment methodologies and standards established under subsection (a), the Executive Director of the National Targeting Center 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 of the United States and regulations administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Determinations not to implement trade alerts</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>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 the director—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> finds that such a determination is justified by port security interests; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> not later than 48 hours after making the determination, notifies the Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Field Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the determination and the reasons for the determination.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Summary of determinations not to implement</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Field Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> compile an annual summary of all determinations by directors of United States ports of entry under paragraph (2) and the reasons for those determinations;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> conduct an evaluation of the utilization of Trade Alerts issued under paragraph (1); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> not later than December 31 of each calendar year, submit the summary to the appropriate congressional committees.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Inspection defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this subsection, the term <term>“inspection”</term> means the comprehensive evaluation process used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 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—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> assessing duties;</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> identifying restricted or prohibited items; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> ensuring compliance with all applicable customs and trade laws of the United States and regulations administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Use of Trade Data for Commercial Enforcement Purposes</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 343(a)(3)(F) of the Trade Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071">19 U.S.C. 2071 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> “(F)</num><content>The information collected pursuant to the regulations shall be used exclusively for ensuring cargo safety and security, preventing smuggling, and commercial risk assessment targeting, and shall not be used for any commercial enforcement purposes, including for determining merchandise entry. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, nothing in this section shall be treated as amending, repealing, or otherwise modifying title IV of the Tariff Act of 1930 or regulations promulgated thereunder.”</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="112">SEC. 112. </num><heading>REPORT ON OVERSIGHT OF REVENUE PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT MEASURES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than June 30, 2016, and not later than March 31 of each second year thereafter, the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury 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, with respect to the period covered by the report, as specified in subsection (b), the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> The effectiveness of the measures taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to protection of revenue, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the collection of countervailing duties assessed under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.</ref>) and antidumping duties assessed under subtitle B of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1673/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1673 et seq.</ref>);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the assessment, collection, and mitigation of commercial fines and penalties;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> the use of bonds, including continuous and single transaction bonds, to secure that revenue; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> the adequacy of the policies of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to the monitoring and tracking of merchandise transported in bond and collecting duties, as appropriate.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> The effectiveness of actions taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to measure accountability and performance with respect to protection of revenue.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> The number and outcome of investigations instituted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to the underpayment of duties.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> The effectiveness of training with respect to the collection of duties provided for personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Period Covered by Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Each report required by subsection (a) shall cover the period of 2 fiscal years ending on September 30 of the calendar year preceding the submission of the report.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="113">SEC. 113. </num><heading>REPORT ON SECURITY AND REVENUE MEASURES WITH RESPECT TO MERCHANDISE TRANSPORTED IN BOND.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than December 31 of 2016, 2017, and 2018, 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 U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Elements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each report required by subsection (a) shall include, for the fiscal year preceding the submission of the report, information on—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the overall number of entries of merchandise for transportation in bond through the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> 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;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> the average time taken to 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 re-exported;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> 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;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> 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;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> the total number of notifications by carriers of merchandise being transported in bond that the destination of the merchandise has changed; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> the number of entries that remain unreconciled.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="114">SEC. 114. </num><heading>IMPORTER OF RECORD PROGRAM.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 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.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary shall ensure that, as part of the importer of record program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> develops criteria that importers must meet in order to obtain an importer of record number, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> criteria to ensure sufficient information is collected to allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to verify the existence of the importer requesting the importer of record number;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> criteria to ensure sufficient information is collected to allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to identify linkages or other affiliations between importers that are requesting or have been assigned importer of record numbers; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> criteria to ensure sufficient information is collected to allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to identify changes in address and corporate structure of importers;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> provides a process by which importers are assigned importer of record numbers;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> maintains a centralized database of importer of record numbers, including a history of importer of record numbers associated with each importer, and the information described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> evaluates and maintains the accuracy of the database if such information changes; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> takes measures to ensure that duplicate importer of record numbers are not issued.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 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).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Number Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the term <term>“number”</term>, with respect to an importer of record, means a filing identification number described in <ref href="/us/cfr/t19/s24.5">section 24.5 of title 19, Code of Federal Regulations</ref> (or any corresponding similar regulation) that fully supports the requirements of subsection (b) with respect to the collection and maintenance of information.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="115">SEC. 115. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF IMPORTER RISK ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall establish a program that directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to adjust bond amounts for importers, including new importers and nonresident importers, based on risk assessments of such importers conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in order to protect the revenue of the Federal Government.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall ensure that, as part of the program established under subsection (a), U.S. Customs and Border Protection—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> develops risk assessment guidelines for importers, including new importers and nonresident importers, to determine if and to what extent—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> to adjust bond amounts of imported products of such importers; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> to increase screening of imported products of such importers;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> develops procedures to ensure increased oversight of imported products of new importers, including nonresident importers, relating to the enforcement of the priority trade issues described in section 117;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> develops procedures to ensure increased oversight of imported products of new importers, including new nonresident importers, by Centers of Excellence and Expertise established under section 110; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> establishes a centralized database of new importers, including new nonresident importers, to ensure accuracy of information that is required to be provided by such importers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exclusion of Certain Importers</inline>.—</heading><content>This section shall not apply to an importer that is a validated Tier 2 or Tier 3 participant in the Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program established under subtitle B of title II of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s961/etseq">6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report detailing—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the risk assessment guidelines developed under subsection (b)(1);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the procedures developed under subsection (b)(2) to ensure increased oversight of imported products of new importers, including new nonresident importers, relating to the enforcement of priority trade issues described in section 117;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> the procedures developed under subsection (b)(3) to ensure increased oversight of imported products of new importers, including new nonresident importers, by Centers of Excellence and Expertise established under section 110; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> the number of bonds adjusted based on the risk assessment guidelines developed under subsection (b)(1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Importer</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“importer”</term> means one of the parties qualifying as an importer of record under section 484(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1484/a/2/B">19 U.S.C. 1484(a)(2)(B)</ref>).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Nonresident importer</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“nonresident importer”</term> means an importer who is—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> an individual who is not a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a partnership, corporation, or other commercial entity that is not organized under the laws of a jurisdiction within the customs territory of the United States (as such term is defined in General Note 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States) or in the Virgin Islands of the United States.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="116">SEC. 116. </num><heading>CUSTOMS BROKER IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTERS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1641">19 U.S.C. 1641</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Identification of Importers</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall prescribe regulations setting forth the minimum standards for customs brokers and importers, including nonresident importers, regarding the identity of the importer that shall apply in connection with the importation of merchandise into the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Minimum requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The regulations required under paragraph (1) shall, at a minimum—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> identify the information that an importer, including a nonresident importer, is required to submit to a broker and that a broker is required to collect in order to verify the identity of the importer;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> identify reasonable procedures that a broker is required to follow in order to verify the authenticity of information collected from an importer; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> require a broker to maintain records of the information collected by the broker to verify the identity of an importer.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Penalties</inline>.—</heading><content>Any customs broker who fails to collect information required under the regulations prescribed under this subsection shall be liable to the United States, at the discretion of the Secretary, for a monetary penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each violation of those regulations and shall be subject to revocation or suspension of a license or permit of the customs broker pursuant to the procedures set forth in subsection (d). This penalty shall be assessed in the same manner and under the same procedures as the monetary penalties provided for in subsection (d)(2)(A).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this subsection:</chapeau><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Importer</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘importer’</term> means one of the parties qualifying as an importer of record under section 484(a)(2)(B).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Nonresident importer</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>‘nonresident importer’</term> means an importer who is—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> an individual who is not a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a partnership, corporation, or other commercial entity that is not organized under the laws of a jurisdiction within the customs territory of the United States (as such term is defined in General Note 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States) or in the Virgin Islands of the United States.”</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Study and Report Required</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 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 containing recommendations for—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> determining the most timely and effective way to require foreign nationals to provide customs brokers with appropriate and accurate information, comparable to that which is required of United States nationals, concerning the identity, address, and other related information relating to such foreign nationals necessary to enable customs brokers to comply with the requirements of section 641(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (as added by subsection (a) of this section); and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> establishing a system for customs brokers to review information maintained by relevant Federal agencies for purposes of verifying the identities of importers, including nonresident importers, seeking to import merchandise into the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="117">SEC. 117. </num><heading>PRIORITY TRADE ISSUES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall establish the following as priority trade issues:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> Agriculture programs.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> Antidumping and countervailing duties.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> Import safety.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> Intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> Revenue.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> Textiles and wearing apparel.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> Trade agreements and preference programs.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Modification</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner is authorized to establish new priority trade issues and eliminate, consolidate, or otherwise modify the priority trade issues described in subsection (a) if the Commissioner—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> determines it necessary and appropriate to do so; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> in the case of new priority trade issues, submits to the appropriate congressional committees a summary of proposals to establish such new priority trade issues not later than 30 days after such new priority trade issues are to take effect; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in the case of existing priority trade issues, submits to the appropriate congressional committees a summary of proposals to eliminate, consolidate, or otherwise modify such existing priority trade issues not later than 60 days before such changes are to take effect.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="118">SEC. 118. </num><heading>APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> In this title, the term <term>“appropriate congressional committees”</term> means—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="II">TITLE II—</num><heading>IMPORT HEALTH AND SAFETY</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="201">SEC. 201. </num><heading>INTERAGENCY IMPORT SAFETY WORKING GROUP.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established an interagency Import Safety Working Group.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Membership</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The interagency Import Safety Working Group shall consist of the following officials or their designees:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> The Secretary of Homeland Security, who shall serve as the Chair.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> The Secretary of Health and Human Services, who shall serve as the Vice Chair.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> The Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> The Secretary of Commerce.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> The Secretary of Agriculture.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> The United States Trade Representative.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> The Director of the Office of Management and Budget.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> The Commissioner of Food and Drugs.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"> (10)</num><content> The Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"> (11)</num><content> The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"> (12)</num><content> The head of any other Federal agency designated by the President to participate in the interagency Import Safety Working Group, as appropriate.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The duties of the interagency Import Safety Working Group shall include—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> consulting on the development of the joint import safety rapid response plan required by section 202;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> periodically evaluating the adequacy of the plans, practices, and resources of the Federal Government dedicated to ensuring the safety of merchandise imported into the United States and the expeditious entry of such merchandise, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> minimizing the duplication of efforts among Federal agencies the heads of which are members of the interagency Import Safety Working Group and ensuring the compatibility of the policies and regulations of those agencies; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> recommending additional administrative actions, as appropriate, designed to ensure the safety of merchandise imported into the United States and the expeditious entry of such merchandise and considering the impact of those actions on private sector entities;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> reviewing the engagement and cooperation of foreign governments and foreign manufacturers in facilitating the inspection and certification, as appropriate, of such merchandise to be imported into the United States and the facilities producing such merchandise to ensure the safety of the merchandise and the expeditious entry of the merchandise into the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><chapeau> identifying best practices, in consultation with private sector entities as appropriate, to assist United States importers in taking all appropriate steps to ensure the safety of merchandise imported into the United States, including with respect to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the inspection of manufacturing facilities in foreign countries;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the inspection of merchandise destined for the United States before exportation from a foreign country or before distribution in the United States; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> the protection of the international supply chain (as defined in section 2 of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s901">6 U.S.C. 901</ref>));</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> 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 with respect to ensuring the safety of merchandise imported into the United States and the expeditious entry of such merchandise; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> 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 merchandise imported into the United States and the expeditious entry of such merchandise.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="202">SEC. 202. </num><heading>JOINT IMPORT SAFETY RAPID RESPONSE PLAN.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than December 31, 2016, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the interagency Import Safety Working Group established under section 201, shall develop a plan (to be known as the “joint import safety rapid response plan”) that sets forth protocols and defines practices for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> 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</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in recovering from or mitigating the effects of actions and responses to an incident described in paragraph (1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Contents</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The joint import safety rapid response plan shall address—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the statutory and regulatory authorities and responsibilities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other Federal agencies in responding to an incident described in subsection (a)(1);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the protocols and practices to be used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when taking action in response to, and coordinating Federal responses to, such an incident;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> the measures to be taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other Federal agencies in recovering from or mitigating the effects of actions taken in response to such an incident after the incident to ensure the resumption of the entry of merchandise into the United States; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> exercises that U.S. Customs and Border Protection may conduct in conjunction with Federal, State, and local agencies, and private sector entities, to simulate responses to such an incident.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Updates of Plan</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall review and update the joint import safety rapid response plan, as appropriate, after conducting exercises under subsection (d).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Import Health and Safety Exercises</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Commissioner shall periodically engage in the exercises referred to in subsection (b)(4), in conjunction with Federal, State, and local agencies and private sector entities, 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.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements for exercises</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In conducting exercises under paragraph (1), the Secretary and the Commissioner shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> 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;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> base evaluations on current risk assessments of merchandise entering the United States at representative United States ports of entry located across the United States;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> 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 Guidelines, the Maritime Transportation System Security Plan, and other such national initiatives of the Department of Homeland Security, as appropriate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> develop metrics with respect to the resumption of the entry of merchandise into the United States after an incident described in subsection (a)(1).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements for testing and evaluation</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary and the Commissioner shall ensure that the testing and evaluation carried out in conducting exercises under paragraph (1)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> are performed using clear and objective performance measures; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> result in the identification of specific recommendations or best practices for responding to an incident described in subsection (a)(1).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Dissemination of recommendations and best practices</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary and the Commissioner shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> share the recommendations or best practices identified under paragraph (3)(B) among the members of the interagency Import Safety Working Group established under section 201 and with, as appropriate—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> State, local, and tribal governments;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> foreign governments; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> private sector entities; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> use such recommendations and best practices to update the joint import safety rapid response plan.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="203">SEC. 203. </num><heading>TRAINING.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> The Commissioner shall ensure that personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection assigned to United States ports of entry are trained to effectively administer the provisions of this title and to otherwise assist in ensuring the safety of merchandise imported into the United States and the expeditious entry of such merchandise.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="III">TITLE III—</num><heading>IMPORT-RELATED PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS</heading>
|
||
<section role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="301">SEC. 301. </num><heading>DEFINITION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> In this title, the term <term>“intellectual property rights”</term> refers to copyrights, trademarks, and other forms of intellectual property rights that are enforced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</content>
|
||
</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="302">SEC. 302. </num><heading>EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION RELATED TO TRADE ENFORCEMENT.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tariff Act of 1930 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 628 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1628">19 U.S.C. 1628</ref>) the following new section:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650144"><num value="628A" class="bold ">“SEC. 628A.</num><heading class="bold "> EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION RELATED TO TRADE ENFORCEMENT.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subject to subsections (c) and (d), if the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection suspects that merchandise is being imported into the United States in violation of section 526 of this Act or section 602, 1201(a)(2), or 1201(b)(1) of <ref href="/us/usc/t17">title 17, United States Code</ref>, and determines that the examination or testing of the merchandise by a person described in subsection (b) would assist the Commissioner in determining if the merchandise is being imported in violation of that section, the Commissioner, to permit the person to conduct the examination and testing—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> shall provide to the person information that appears on the merchandise and its packaging and labels, including unredacted images of the merchandise and its packaging and labels; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> may, subject to any applicable bonding requirements, provide to the person unredacted samples of the merchandise.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Person Described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A person described in this subsection is—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> in the case of merchandise suspected of being imported in violation of section 526, the owner of the trademark suspected of being copied or simulated by the merchandise;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> in the case of merchandise suspected of being imported in violation of <ref href="/us/usc/t17/s602">section 602 of title 17, United States Code</ref>, the owner of the copyright suspected of being infringed by the merchandise;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> in the case of merchandise suspected of being primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under that title, and being imported in violation of section 1201(a)(2) of that title, the owner of a copyright in the work; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> in the case of merchandise suspected of being primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of an owner of a copyright in a work or a portion of a work, and being imported in violation of section 1201(b)(1) of that title, the owner of the copyright.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Limitation</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (a) applies only with respect to merchandise suspected of infringing a trademark or copyright that is recorded with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner may not provide under subsection (a) information, photographs, or samples to a person described in subsection (b) if providing such information, photographs, or samples would compromise an ongoing law enforcement investigation or national security.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Termination of Previous Authority</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of section 818(g) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (<ref href="/us/pl/112/81">Public Law 112–81</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/125/1496">125 Stat. 1496</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t10/s2302">10 U.S.C. 2302 note</ref>), paragraph (1) of that section shall have no force or effect on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="303">SEC. 303. </num><heading>SEIZURE OF CIRCUMVENTION DEVICES.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 596(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1595a/c/2">19 U.S.C. 1595a(c)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in subparagraph (E), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subparagraph (F), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; or”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> “(G)</num><content> U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines it is a technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof the importation of which is prohibited under subsection (a)(2) or (b)(1) of <ref href="/us/usc/t17/s1201">section 1201 of title 17, United States Code</ref>.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</paragraph>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Notification of Persons Injured</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 30 business days after seizing merchandise pursuant to subparagraph (G) of section 596(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by subsection (a), the Commissioner shall provide to any person identified under paragraph (2) information regarding the merchandise seized that is equivalent to information provided to copyright owners under regulations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for merchandise seized for violation of the copyright laws.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Persons to be provided information</inline>.—</heading><content>Any person injured by the violation of subsection (a)(2) or (b)(1) of <ref href="/us/usc/t17/s1201">section 1201 of title 17, United States Code</ref>, that resulted in the seizure of the merchandise shall be provided information under paragraph (1), if that person is included on a list to be established and maintained by the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall publish notice of the establishment of and revisions to the list in the Federal Register.</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations establishing procedures that implement this subsection.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</subsection>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="304">SEC. 304. </num><heading>ENFORCEMENT BY U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION OF WORKS FOR WHICH COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IS PENDING.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall authorize a process pursuant to which the Commissioner shall enforce a copyright for which the owner has submitted an application for registration under <ref href="/us/usc/t17">title 17, United States Code</ref>, with the United States Copyright Office, to the same extent and in the same manner as if the copyright were registered with the Copyright Office, including by sharing information, images, and samples of merchandise suspected of infringing the copyright under section 628A of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 302.</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="305">SEC. 305. </num><heading>NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS COORDINATION CENTER.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> establish within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center; and</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> appoint an Assistant Director to head the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Assistant Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> coordinate the investigation of sources of merchandise that infringe intellectual property rights to identify organizations and individuals that produce, smuggle, or distribute such merchandise;</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> conduct and coordinate training with other domestic and international law enforcement agencies on investigative best practices—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> to develop and expand the capability of such agencies to enforce intellectual property rights; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> to develop metrics to assess whether the training improved enforcement of intellectual property rights;</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> coordinate, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, activities conducted by the United States to prevent the importation or exportation of merchandise that infringes intellectual property rights;</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> support the international interdiction of merchandise destined for the United States that infringes intellectual property rights;</content>
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||
</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> collect and integrate information regarding infringement of intellectual property rights from domestic and international law enforcement agencies and other non-Federal sources;</content>
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> develop a means to receive and organize information regarding infringement of intellectual property rights from such agencies and other sources;</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> disseminate information regarding infringement of intellectual property rights to other Federal agencies, as appropriate;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> develop and implement risk-based alert systems, in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to improve the targeting of persons that repeatedly infringe intellectual property rights;</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> coordinate with the offices of United States attorneys in order to develop expertise in, and assist with the investigation and prosecution of, crimes relating to the infringement of intellectual property rights; and</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"> (10)</num><content> carry out such other duties as the Secretary of Homeland Security may assign.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Coordination With Other Agencies</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In carrying out the duties described in subsection (b), the Assistant Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall coordinate with—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the Food and Drug Administration;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> the Department of Justice;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> the Department of Commerce, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> the United States Postal Inspection Service;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> the Office of the United States Trade Representative;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> any Federal, State, local, or international law enforcement agencies that the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement considers appropriate; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> any other entities that the Director considers appropriate.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
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||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Private Sector Outreach</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Assistant Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other Federal agencies to conduct outreach to private sector entities in order to determine trends in and methods of infringing intellectual property rights.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Information sharing</inline>.—</heading><content>The Assistant Director shall share information and best practices with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights with private sector entities, as appropriate, in order to coordinate public and private sector efforts to combat the infringement of intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="306">SEC. 306. </num><heading>JOINT STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall include in the joint strategic plan required by section 105—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> a description of the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to enforce intellectual property rights;</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> a list of the 10 United States ports of entry at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized the most merchandise, both by volume and by value, that infringes intellectual property rights during the most recent 2-year period for which data are available; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> a recommendation for the optimal allocation of personnel, resources, and technology to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are adequately enforcing intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="307">SEC. 307. </num><heading>PERSONNEL DEDICATED TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned throughout U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, respectively, who have responsibility for preventing the importation into the United States of merchandise that infringes intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Staffing of National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> assign not fewer than 3 full-time employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center established under section 305; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned to United States ports of entry to carry out the directives of the Center.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="308">SEC. 308. </num><heading>TRAINING WITH RESPECT TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Training</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall ensure that officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection are trained to effectively detect and identify merchandise destined for the United States that infringes intellectual property rights, including through the use of technologies identified under subsection (c).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultation With Private Sector</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall consult with private sector entities to better identify opportunities for collaboration between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and such entities with respect to training for officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in enforcing intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Identification of New Technologies</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In consultation with private sector entities, the Commissioner shall identify—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> technologies with the cost-effective capability to detect and identify merchandise at United States ports of entry that infringes intellectual property rights; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> cost-effective programs for training officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use such technologies.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Donations of Technology</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall prescribe regulations to enable U.S. Customs and Border Protection to receive donations of hardware, software, equipment, and similar technologies, and to accept training and other support services, from private sector entities, for the purpose of enforcing intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="309">SEC. 309. </num><heading>INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND INFORMATION SHARING.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Cooperation</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate with the competent law enforcement and customs authorities of foreign countries, including by sharing information relevant to enforcement actions, to enhance the efforts of the United States and such authorities to enforce intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Technical Assistance</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide technical assistance to competent law enforcement and customs authorities of foreign countries to enhance the ability of such authorities to enforce intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interagency Collaboration</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall lead interagency efforts to collaborate with law enforcement and customs authorities of foreign countries to enforce intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="310">SEC. 310. </num><heading>REPORT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Not later than September 30, 2016, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall jointly submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate, the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives a report that contains the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> With respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> The number of referrals, during the preceding year, from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement relating to infringement of intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The number of investigations relating to the infringement of intellectual property rights referred by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to a United States attorney for prosecution and the United States attorneys to which those investigations were referred.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The number of such investigations accepted by each such United States attorney and the status or outcome of each such investigation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> The number of such investigations that resulted in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> A description of the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to improve the success rates of investigations and prosecutions relating to the infringement of intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> An estimate of the average time required by the Office of Trade established under section 4 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (<ref href="/us/stat/44/1381/ch348">44 Stat. 1381, chapter 348</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.</ref>), as added by section 802(h) of this Act, to respond to a request from port personnel for advice with respect to whether merchandise detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection infringed intellectual property rights, distinguished by types of intellectual property rights infringed.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><chapeau> A summary of the outreach efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with respect to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the interdiction and investigation of, and the sharing of information between those agencies and other Federal agencies to prevent, the infringement of intellectual property rights;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><chapeau> collaboration with private sector entities—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> to identify trends in the infringement of, and technologies that infringe, intellectual property rights;</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> to identify opportunities for enhanced training of officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> to develop best practices to enforce intellectual property rights; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> coordination with foreign governments and international organizations with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> A summary of the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to address the challenges with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights presented by Internet commerce and the transit of small packages and an identification of the volume, value, and type of merchandise seized for infringing intellectual property rights as a result of such efforts.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> A summary of training relating to the enforcement of intellectual property rights conducted under section 308 and expenditures for such training.</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="311">SEC. 311. </num><heading>INFORMATION FOR TRAVELERS REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>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 merchandise that infringes intellectual property rights outside the United States and importing such merchandise into the United States in violation of United States law.</content>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Declaration Forms</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall ensure that all versions of Declaration Form 6059B of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or a successor form, including any electronic equivalent of Declaration Form 6059B or a successor form, printed or displayed on or after the date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act include a written warning to inform travelers arriving in the United States that importation of merchandise into the United States that infringes intellectual property rights may subject travelers to civil or criminal penalties and may pose serious risks to safety or health.</content>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="IV">TITLE IV—</num><heading>PREVENTION OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="401">SEC. 401. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> This title may be cited as the <shortTitle role="title">“Enforce and Protect Act of 2015”</shortTitle>.</content>
|
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</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="402">SEC. 402. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> In this title:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appropriate congressional committees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“appropriate congressional committees”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Covered merchandise</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“covered merchandise”</term> means merchandise that is subject to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a countervailing duty order issued under section 706 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671e">19 U.S.C. 1671e</ref>); or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> an antidumping duty order issued under section 736 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1673e">19 U.S.C. 1673e</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Eligible small business</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“eligible small business”</term> means any business concern that, in the judgment of the Commissioner, due to its small size, has neither adequate internal resources nor financial ability to obtain qualified outside assistance in preparing and submitting for consideration allegations of evasion.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Nonreviewability</inline>.—</heading><content>Any agency decision regarding whether a business concern is an eligible small business for purposes of section 411(b)(4)(E) is not reviewable by any other agency or by any court.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Enter; entry</inline>.—</heading><content>The terms “enter” and “entry” refer to the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, of merchandise in the customs territory of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Evade; evasion</inline>.—</heading><content>The terms “evade” and “evasion” refer to entering covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States by means of any document or electronically transmitted data or information, written or oral statement, or act that is material and false, or any omission that is material, and that results in any cash deposit or other security or any amount of applicable antidumping or countervailing duties being reduced or not being applied with respect to the merchandise.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“Secretary”</term> means the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade remedy laws</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“trade remedy laws”</term> means title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671/etseq">19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.</ref>).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="403">SEC. 403. </num><heading>APPLICATION TO CANADA AND MEXICO.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> Pursuant to article 1902 of the North American Free Trade Agreement and section 408 of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3438">19 U.S.C. 3438</ref>), this title and the amendments made by this title shall apply with respect to goods from Canada and Mexico.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<subtitle style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Actions Relating to Enforcement of Trade Remedy Laws</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="411">SEC. 411. </num><heading>TRADE REMEDY LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish and maintain within the Office of Trade established under section 4 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (<ref href="/us/stat/44/1381/ch348">44 Stat. 1381, chapter 348</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.</ref>), as added by section 802(h) of this Act, a Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Composition</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division shall be composed of—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> headquarters personnel led by a Director, who shall report to the Executive Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Trade; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a National Targeting and Analysis Group dedicated to preventing and countering evasion.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division shall be dedicated—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> to the development and administration of policies to prevent and counter evasion, including policies relating to the implementation of section 517 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 421 of this Act;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> to direct enforcement and compliance assessment activities concerning evasion;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> to the development and conduct of commercial risk assessment targeting with respect to cargo destined for the United States in accordance with subsection (c);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> to issuing Trade Alerts described in subsection (d); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> to the development of policies for the application of single entry and continuous bonds for entries of covered merchandise to sufficiently protect the collection of antidumping and countervailing duties commensurate with the level of risk of noncollection.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties of Director</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The duties of the Director of the Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division shall include—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> directing the trade enforcement and compliance assessment activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection that concern evasion;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> facilitating, promoting, and coordinating cooperation and the exchange of information between U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other relevant Federal agencies regarding evasion;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> notifying on a timely basis the administering authority (as defined in section 771(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1677/1">19 U.S.C. 1677(1)</ref>)) and the Commission (as defined in section 771(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1677/2">19 U.S.C. 1677(2)</ref>)) of any finding, determination, civil action, or criminal action taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or other Federal agency regarding evasion;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><chapeau> serving as the primary liaison between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the public regarding activities concerning evasion, including activities relating to investigations conducted under section 517 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 421 of this Act, which include—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> receiving allegations of evasion from parties, including allegations described in section 517(b)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as so added;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> upon request by the party or parties that submitted such an allegation of evasion, providing information to such party or parties on the status of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s consideration of the allegation and decision to pursue or not pursue any administrative inquiries or other actions, such as changes in policies, procedures, or resource allocation as a result of the allegation;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> as needed, requesting from the party or parties that submitted such an allegation of evasion any additional information that may be relevant for U.S. Customs and Border Protection determining whether to initiate an administrative inquiry or take any other action regarding the allegation;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> notifying on a timely basis the party or parties that submitted such an allegation of the results of any administrative, civil, or criminal actions taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or other Federal agency regarding evasion as a direct or indirect result of the allegation;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> upon request, providing technical assistance and advice to eligible small businesses to enable such businesses to prepare and submit such an allegation of evasion, except that the Director may deny technical assistance if the Director concludes that the allegation, if submitted, would not lead to the initiation of an administrative inquiry or any other action to address the allegation;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> in cooperation with the public, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee established under section 109, the Trade Support Network, and any other relevant parties and organizations, developing guidelines on the types and nature of information that may be provided in such an allegation of evasion; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> (G)</num><content> consulting regularly with the public, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, the Trade Support Network, and any other relevant parties and organizations regarding the development and implementation of regulations, interpretations, and policies related to countering evasion.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Preventing and Countering Evasion of the Trade Remedy Laws</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In carrying out its duties with respect to preventing and countering evasion, the National Targeting and Analysis Group dedicated to preventing and countering evasion shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> establish targeted risk assessment methodologies and standards—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> for evaluating the risk that cargo destined for the United States may constitute evading covered merchandise; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> for issuing, as appropriate, Trade Alerts described in subsection (d); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> to the extent practicable and otherwise authorized by law, use information available from the Automated Commercial System, the Automated Commercial Environment, the Automated Targeting System, the Automated Export System, the International Trade Data System established under section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>), and the TECS (formerly known as the “Treasury Enforcement Communications System”), and any similar and successor systems, to administer the methodologies and standards established under paragraph (1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade Alerts</inline>.—</heading><content>Based upon the application of the targeted risk assessment methodologies and standards established under subsection (c), the Director of the Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division shall issue Trade Alerts or other such means of notification to directors of United States ports of entry directing further inspection, physical examination, or testing of merchandise to ensure compliance with the trade remedy laws and to require additional bonds, cash deposits, or other security to ensure collection of any duties, taxes, and fees owed.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="412">SEC. 412. </num><heading>COLLECTION OF INFORMATION ON EVASION OF TRADE REMEDY LAWS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Authority to Collect Information</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>To determine whether covered merchandise is being entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion, the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> shall exercise all existing authorities to collect information needed to make the determination; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> may collect such additional information as is necessary to make the determination through such methods as the Commissioner considers appropriate, including by issuing questionnaires with respect to the entry or entries at issue to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a person who filed an allegation with respect to the covered merchandise;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a person who is alleged to have entered the covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> any other person who is determined to have information relevant to the allegation of entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Adverse Inference</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Use of adverse inference</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Secretary finds that a person described in subparagraph (B) has failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of the person’s ability to comply with a request for information under subsection (a), the Secretary may, in making a determination whether an entry or entries of covered merchandise may constitute merchandise that is entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion, use an inference that is adverse to the interests of that person in selecting from among the facts otherwise available to determine whether evasion has occurred.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Person described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A person described in this subparagraph is—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> a person who filed an allegation with respect to covered merchandise;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> a person alleged to have entered covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> a foreign producer or exporter of covered merchandise that is alleged to have entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Application</inline>.—</heading><content>An inference described in subparagraph (A) may be used under that subparagraph with respect to a person described in clause (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (B) without regard to whether another person involved in the same transaction or transactions under examination has provided the information sought by the Secretary, such as import or export documentation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Adverse inference described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An adverse inference used under paragraph (1)(A) may include reliance on information derived from—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the allegation of evasion of the trade remedy laws, if any, submitted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a determination by the Commissioner in another investigation, proceeding, or other action regarding evasion of the unfair trade laws; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> any other available information.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="413">SEC. 413. </num><heading>ACCESS TO INFORMATION.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 777(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1677f/b/1/A/ii">19 U.S.C. 1677f(b)(1)(A)(ii)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“negligence, gross negligence, or”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“regarding”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Additional Information</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary is authorized to provide to the Secretary of Commerce or the United States International Trade Commission any information that is necessary to enable the Secretary of Commerce or the United States International Trade Commission to assist the Secretary to identify, through risk assessment targeting or otherwise, covered merchandise that is entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="414">SEC. 414. </num><heading>COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES ON PREVENTING EVASION OF TRADE REMEDY LAWS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Bilateral Agreements</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall seek to negotiate and enter into bilateral agreements with the customs authorities or other appropriate authorities of foreign countries for purposes of cooperation on preventing evasion of the trade remedy laws of the United States and the trade remedy laws of the other country.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Provisions and authorities</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary shall seek to include in each such bilateral agreement the following provisions and authorities:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> On the request of the importing country, the exporting country shall provide, consistent with its laws, regulations, and procedures, production, trade, and transit documents and other information necessary to determine whether an entry or entries exported from the exporting country are subject to the importing country’s trade remedy laws.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> On the written request of the importing country, the exporting country shall conduct a verification for purposes of enabling the importing country to make a determination described in subparagraph (A).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The exporting country may allow the importing country to participate in a verification described in subparagraph (B), including through a site visit.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> If the exporting country does not allow participation of the importing country in a verification described in subparagraph (B), the importing country may take this fact into consideration in its trade enforcement and compliance assessment activities regarding the compliance of the exporting country’s exports with the importing country’s trade remedy laws.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consideration</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner is authorized to take into consideration whether a country is a signatory to a bilateral agreement described in subsection (a) and the extent to which the country is cooperating under the bilateral agreement for purposes of trade enforcement and compliance assessment activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection that concern evasion by such country’s exports.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than December 31 of each calendar year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report summarizing—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the status of any ongoing negotiations of bilateral agreements described in subsection (a), including the identities of the countries involved in such negotiations;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the terms of any completed bilateral agreements described in subsection (a); and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> bilateral cooperation and other activities conducted pursuant to or enabled by any completed bilateral agreements described in subsection (a).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="415">SEC. 415. </num><heading>TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> The principal negotiating objectives of the United States shall include obtaining the objectives of the bilateral agreements described under section 414(a) for any trade agreements under negotiation as of the date of the enactment of this Act or future trade agreement negotiations.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Investigation of Evasion of Trade Remedy Laws</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="421">SEC. 421. </num><heading>PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tariff Act of 1930 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 516A (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1516a">19 U.S.C. 1516a</ref>) the following:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="517">“SEC. 517.</num><heading> PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Administering authority</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘administering authority’</term> has the meaning given that term in section 771(1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘Commissioner’</term> means the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Covered merchandise</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>‘covered merchandise’</term> means merchandise that is subject to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> an antidumping duty order issued under section 736; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> a countervailing duty order issued under section 706.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Enter; entry</inline>.—</heading><content>The terms ‘enter’ and ‘entry’ refer to the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, of merchandise into the customs territory of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Evasion</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term <term>‘evasion’</term> refers to entering covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States by means of any document or electronically transmitted data or information, written or oral statement, or act that is material and false, or any omission that is material, and that results in any cash deposit or other security or any amount of applicable antidumping or countervailing duties being reduced or not being applied with respect to the merchandise.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception for clerical error</inline>.—</heading><clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided in clause (ii), the term <term>‘evasion’</term> does not include entering covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States by means of—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> a document or electronically transmitted data or information, written or oral statement, or act that is false as a result of a clerical error; or</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> an omission that results from a clerical error.</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Patterns of negligent conduct</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner determines that a person has entered covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States by means of a clerical error referred to in subclause (I) or (II) of clause (i) and that the clerical error is part of a pattern of negligent conduct on the part of that person, the Commissioner may determine, notwithstanding clause (i), that the person has entered such covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Electronic repetition of errors</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of clause (ii), the mere nonintentional repetition by an electronic system of an initial clerical error does not constitute a pattern of negligent conduct.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of construction</inline>.—</heading><content>A determination by the Commissioner that a person has entered covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States by means of a clerical error referred to in subclause (I) or (II) of clause (i) rather than through evasion shall not be construed to excuse that person from the payment of any duties applicable to the merchandise.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interested party</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>‘interested party’</term> means—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> a foreign manufacturer, producer, or exporter, or the United States importer, of covered merchandise or a trade or business association a majority of the members of which are producers, exporters, or importers of such merchandise;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler in the United States of a domestic like product;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> a certified union or recognized union or group of workers that is representative of an industry engaged in the manufacture, production, or wholesale in the United States of a domestic like product;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> a trade or business association a majority of the members of which manufacture, produce, or wholesale a domestic like product in the United States;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> an association a majority of the members of which is composed of interested parties described in clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) with respect to a domestic like product; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="vi"> “(vi)</num><chapeau> if the covered merchandise is a processed agricultural product, as defined in section 771(4)(E), a coalition or trade association that is representative of either—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> processors;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> processors and producers; or</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> “(III)</num><content> processors and growers.</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Domestic like product</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term <term>‘domestic like product’</term> means a product that is like, or in the absence of like, most similar in characteristics and uses with, covered merchandise.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Investigations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 15 business days after receiving an allegation described in paragraph (2) or a referral described in paragraph (3), the Commissioner shall initiate an investigation if the Commissioner determines that the information provided in the allegation or the referral, as the case may be, reasonably suggests that covered merchandise has been entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Allegation described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An allegation described in this paragraph is an allegation that a person has entered covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion that is—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> filed with the Commissioner by an interested party; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> accompanied by information reasonably available to the party that filed the allegation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Referral described</inline>.—</heading><content>A referral described in this paragraph is information submitted to the Commissioner by any other Federal agency, including the Department of Commerce or the United States International Trade Commission, that reasonably suggests that a person has entered covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consideration by administering authority</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If the Commissioner receives an allegation under paragraph (2) and is unable to determine whether the merchandise at issue is covered merchandise, the Commissioner shall—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> refer the matter to the administering authority to determine whether the merchandise is covered merchandise pursuant to the authority of the administering authority under title VII; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> notify the party that filed the allegation, and any other interested party participating in the investigation, of the referral.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Determination; transmission to commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>After receiving a referral under subparagraph (A)(i) with respect to merchandise, the administering authority shall determine whether the merchandise is covered merchandise and promptly transmit that determination to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Stay of deadlines</inline>.—</heading><content>The period required for any referral and determination under this paragraph shall not be counted in calculating any deadline under this section.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to affect the authority of an interested party to commence an action in the United States Court of International Trade under section 516A(a)(2) with respect to a determination of the administering authority under this paragraph.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consolidation of allegations and referrals</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner may consolidate multiple allegations described in paragraph (2) and referrals described in paragraph (3) into a single investigation if the Commissioner determines it is appropriate to do so.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effect on timing requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner consolidates multiple allegations or referrals into a single investigation under subparagraph (A), the date on which the Commissioner receives the first such allegation or referral shall be used for purposes of the requirement under paragraph (1) with respect to the timing of the initiation of the investigation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Information-sharing to protect health and safety</inline>.—</heading><content>If, during the course of conducting an investigation under paragraph (1) with respect to covered merchandise, the Commissioner has reason to suspect that such covered merchandise may pose a health or safety risk to consumers, the Commissioner shall provide, as appropriate, information to the appropriate Federal agencies for purposes of mitigating the risk.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> “(7)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Technical assistance and advice</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Upon request, the Commissioner shall provide technical assistance and advice to eligible small businesses to enable such businesses to prepare and submit allegations described in paragraph (2), except that the Commissioner may deny technical assistance if the Commissioner concludes that the allegation, if submitted, would not lead to the initiation of an investigation under this subsection or any other action to address the allegation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Eligible small business defined</inline>.—</heading><clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>In this paragraph, the term <term>‘eligible small business’</term> means any business concern that the Commissioner determines, due to its small size, has neither adequate internal resources nor the financial ability to obtain qualified outside assistance in preparing and filing allegations described in paragraph (2).</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Non-reviewability</inline>.—</heading><content>The determination of the Commissioner regarding whether a business concern is an eligible small business for purposes of this paragraph is not reviewable by any other agency or by any court.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Determinations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Determination of evasion</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), not later than 300 calendar days after the date on which the Commissioner initiates an investigation under subsection (b) with respect to covered merchandise, the Commissioner shall make a determination, based on substantial evidence, with respect to whether such covered merchandise was entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Additional time</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner may extend the time to make a determination under subparagraph (A) by not more than 60 calendar days if the Commissioner determines that—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><chapeau> the investigation is extraordinarily complicated because of—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the number and complexity of the transactions to be investigated;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> the novelty of the issues presented; or</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> “(III)</num><content> the number of entities to be investigated; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> additional time is necessary to make the determination under subparagraph (A).</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Authority to collect and verify additional information</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In making a determination under paragraph (1) with respect to covered merchandise, the Commissioner may collect such additional information as is necessary to make the determination through such methods as the Commissioner considers appropriate, including by—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><chapeau> issuing a questionnaire with respect to such covered merchandise to—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> an interested party that filed an allegation under paragraph (2) of subsection (b) that resulted in the initiation of an investigation under paragraph (1) of that subsection with respect to such covered merchandise;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a person alleged to have entered such covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> a person that is a foreign producer or exporter of such covered merchandise; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> the government of a country from which such covered merchandise was exported; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> conducting verifications, including on-site verifications, of any relevant information.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Adverse inference</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner finds that a party or person described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of paragraph (2)(A) has failed to cooperate by not acting to the best of the party or person’s ability to comply with a request for information, the Commissioner may, in making a determination under paragraph (1), use an inference that is adverse to the interests of that party or person in selecting from among the facts otherwise available to make the determination.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Application</inline>.—</heading><content>An inference described in subparagraph (A) may be used under that subparagraph with respect to a person described in clause (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (2)(A) without regard to whether another person involved in the same transaction or transactions under examination has provided the information sought by the Commissioner, such as import or export documentation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Adverse inference described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An adverse inference used under subparagraph (A) may include reliance on information derived from—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> the allegation of evasion of the trade remedy laws, if any, submitted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a determination by the Commissioner in another investigation, proceeding, or other action regarding evasion of the unfair trade laws; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> any other available information.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Notification</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 5 business days after making a determination under paragraph (1) with respect to covered merchandise, the Commissioner—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> shall provide to each interested party that filed an allegation under paragraph (2) of subsection (b) that resulted in the initiation of an investigation under paragraph (1) of that subsection with respect to such covered merchandise a notification of the determination and may, in addition, include an explanation of the basis for the determination; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> may provide to importers, in such manner as the Commissioner determines appropriate, information discovered in the investigation that the Commissioner determines will help educate importers with respect to importing merchandise into the customs territory of the United States in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effect of Determinations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If the Commissioner makes a determination under subsection (c) that covered merchandise was entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion, the Commissioner shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><clause class="inline"><num value="i">(i)</num><content> suspend the liquidation of unliquidated entries of such covered merchandise that are subject to the determination and that enter on or after the date of the initiation of the investigation under subsection (b) with respect to such covered merchandise and on or before the date of the determination; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> if the Commissioner has already suspended the liquidation of such entries pursuant to subsection (e)(1), continue to suspend the liquidation of such entries;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><chapeau> pursuant to the Commissioner’s authority under section 504(b)—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> extend the period for liquidating unliquidated entries of such covered merchandise that are subject to the determination and that entered before the date of the initiation of the investigation; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> if the Commissioner has already extended the period for liquidating such entries pursuant to subsection (e)(1), continue to extend the period for liquidating such entries;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><chapeau> notify the administering authority of the determination and request that the administering authority—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> identify the applicable antidumping or countervailing duty assessment rates for entries described in subparagraphs (A) and (B); or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> if no such assessment rate for such an entry is available at the time, identify the applicable cash deposit rate to be applied to the entry, with the applicable antidumping or countervailing duty assessment rate to be provided as soon as that rate becomes available;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> require the posting of cash deposits and assess duties on entries described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) in accordance with the instructions received from the administering authority under paragraph (2); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><chapeau> take such additional enforcement measures as the Commissioner determines appropriate, such as—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> initiating proceedings under section 592 or 596;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> implementing, in consultation with the relevant Federal agencies, rule sets or modifications to rule sets for identifying, particularly through the Automated Targeting System and the Automated Commercial Environment authorized under section 13031(f)(4) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/f/4">19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(4)</ref>), importers, other parties, and merchandise that may be associated with evasion;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> requiring, with respect to merchandise for which the importer has repeatedly provided incomplete or erroneous entry summary information in connection with determinations of evasion, the importer to deposit estimated duties at the time of entry; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> referring the record in whole or in part to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for civil or criminal investigation.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Cooperation of administering authority</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Upon receiving a notification from the Commissioner under paragraph (1)(C), the administering authority shall promptly provide to the Commissioner the applicable cash deposit rates and antidumping or countervailing duty assessment rates and any necessary liquidation instructions.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special rule for cases in which the producer or exporter is unknown</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner and the administering authority are unable to determine the producer or exporter of the merchandise with respect to which a notification is made under paragraph (1)(C), the administering authority shall identify, as the applicable cash deposit rate or antidumping or countervailing duty assessment rate, the cash deposit or duty (as the case may be) in the highest amount applicable to any producer or exporter, including the ‘all-others’ rate of the merchandise subject to an antidumping order or countervailing duty order under section 736 or 706, respectively, or a finding issued under the Antidumping Act, 1921, or any administrative review conducted under section 751.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> “(e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interim Measures</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 calendar days after initiating an investigation under subsection (b) with respect to covered merchandise, the Commissioner shall decide based on the investigation if there is a reasonable suspicion that such covered merchandise was entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion and, if the Commissioner decides there is such a reasonable suspicion, the Commissioner shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> suspend the liquidation of each unliquidated entry of such covered merchandise that entered on or after the date of the initiation of the investigation;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> pursuant to the Commissioner’s authority under section 504(b), extend the period for liquidating each unliquidated entry of such covered merchandise that entered before the date of the initiation of the investigation; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> pursuant to the Commissioner’s authority under section 623, take such additional measures as the Commissioner determines necessary to protect the revenue of the United States, including requiring a single transaction bond or additional security or the posting of a cash deposit with respect to such covered merchandise.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> “(f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Administrative Review</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 30 business days after the Commissioner makes a determination under subsection (c) with respect to whether covered merchandise was entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion, a person determined to have entered such covered merchandise through evasion or an interested party that filed an allegation under paragraph (2) of subsection (b) that resulted in the initiation of an investigation under paragraph (1) of that subsection with respect to such covered merchandise may file an appeal with the Commissioner for de novo review of the determination.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Timeline for review</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 60 business days after an appeal of a determination is filed under paragraph (1), the Commissioner shall complete the review of the determination.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> “(g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Judicial Review</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 30 business days after the Commissioner completes a review under subsection (f) of a determination under subsection (c) with respect to whether covered merchandise was entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion, a person determined to have entered such covered merchandise through evasion or an interested party that filed an allegation under paragraph (2) of subsection (b) that resulted in the initiation of an investigation under paragraph (1) of that subsection with respect to such covered merchandise may seek judicial review of the determination under subsection (c) and the review under subsection (f) in the United States Court of International Trade to determine whether the determination and review is conducted in accordance with subsections (c) and (f).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Standard of review</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In determining whether a determination under subsection (c) or review under subsection (f) is conducted in accordance with those subsections, the United States Court of International Trade shall examine—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> whether the Commissioner fully complied with all procedures under subsections (c) and (f); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> whether any determination, finding, or conclusion is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this subsection shall affect the availability of judicial review to an interested party under any other provision of law.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> “(h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of Construction With Respect to Other Civil and Criminal Proceedings and Investigations</inline>.—</heading><content>No determination under subsection (c), review under subsection (f), or action taken by the Commissioner pursuant to this section shall preclude any individual or entity from proceeding, or otherwise affect or limit the authority of any individual or entity to proceed, with any civil, criminal, or administrative investigation or proceeding pursuant to any other provision of Federal or State law, including sections 592 and 596.”</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t28/s1581/c">Section 1581(c) of title 28, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or 517”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“516A”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to implement the amendments made by this section.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Other Matters</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="431">SEC. 431. </num><heading>ALLOCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONNEL.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> The Commissioner shall, to the maximum extent possible, ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> employs sufficient personnel who have expertise in, and responsibility for, preventing and investigating the entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> on the basis of risk assessment metrics, assigns sufficient personnel with primary responsibility for preventing the entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion to the ports of entry in the United States at which the Commissioner determines potential evasion presents the most substantial threats to the revenue of the United States; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> provides adequate training to relevant personnel to increase expertise and effectiveness in the prevention and identification of entries of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="432">SEC. 432. </num><heading>ANNUAL REPORT ON PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATION OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than January 15 of each calendar year that begins on or after the date that is 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 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 efforts being taken to prevent and investigate the entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Contents</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each report required under subsection (a) shall include—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> for the calendar year preceding the submission of the report—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a summary of the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prevent and investigate the entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the number of allegations of evasion received, including allegations received under subsection (b) of section 517 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 421 of this Act, and the number of such allegations resulting in investigations by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or any other Federal agency;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><chapeau> a summary of investigations initiated, including investigations initiated under subsection (b) of such section 517, including—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> the number and nature of the investigations initiated, conducted, or completed; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> the resolution of each completed investigation;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> the amount of additional duties that were determined to be owed as a result of such investigations, the amount of such duties that were collected, and, for any such duties not collected, a description of the reasons those duties were not collected;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> with respect to each such investigation that led to the imposition of a penalty, the amount of the penalty;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> an identification of the countries of origin of covered merchandise determined under subsection (c) of such section 517 to be entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> (G)</num><content> the amount of antidumping and countervailing duties collected as a result of any investigations or other actions by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or any other Federal agency;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="H"> (H)</num><content> a description of the allocation of personnel and other resources of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prevent and investigate evasion, including any assessments conducted regarding the allocation of such personnel and resources; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> a description of training conducted to increase expertise and effectiveness in the prevention and investigation of evasion; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> a description of processes and procedures of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prevent and investigate evasion, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the specific guidelines, policies, and practices used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to ensure that allegations of evasion are promptly evaluated and acted upon in a timely manner;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> an evaluation of the efficacy of those guidelines, policies, and practices;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> an identification of any changes since the last report required by this section, if any, that have materially improved or reduced the effectiveness of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in preventing and investigating evasion;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> a description of the development and implementation of policies for the application of single entry and continuous bonds for entries of covered merchandise to sufficiently protect the collection of antidumping and countervailing duties commensurate with the level of risk of not collecting those duties;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> a description of the processes and procedures for increased cooperation and information sharing with the Department of Commerce, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and any other relevant Federal agencies to prevent and investigate evasion; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> an identification of any recommended policy changes for other Federal agencies or legislative changes to improve the effectiveness of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in preventing and investigating evasion.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Public Summary</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall make available to the public a summary of the report required by subsection (a) that includes, at a minimum—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> a description of the type of merchandise with respect to which investigations were initiated under subsection (b) of section 517 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 421 of this Act;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the amount of additional duties determined to be owed as a result of such investigations and the amount of such duties that were collected;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> an identification of the countries of origin of covered merchandise determined under subsection (c) of such section 517 to be entered into the customs territory of the United States through evasion; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> a description of the types of measures used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prevent and investigate evasion.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="433">SEC. 433. </num><heading>ADDRESSING CIRCUMVENTION BY NEW SHIPPERS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1675/a/2/B">19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(2)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> clause (iii);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> clause (iv) as clause (iii); and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after clause (iii), as redesignated by paragraph (2) of this section, the following:<quotedContent><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Determinations based on bona fide sales</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Any weighted average dumping margin or individual countervailing duty rate determined for an exporter or producer in a review conducted under clause (i) shall be based solely on the bona fide United States sales of an exporter or producer, as the case may be, made during the period covered by the review. In determining whether the United States sales of an exporter or producer made during the period covered by the review were bona fide, the administering authority shall consider, depending on the circumstances surrounding such sales—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the prices of such sales;</content>
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> whether such sales were made in commercial quantities;</content>
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> “(III)</num><content> the timing of such sales;</content>
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="IV"> “(IV)</num><content> the expenses arising from such sales;</content>
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="V"> “(V)</num><content> whether the subject merchandise involved in such sales was resold in the United States at a profit;</content>
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</subclause>
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||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="VI"> “(VI)</num><content> whether such sales were made on an arms-length basis; and</content>
|
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="VII"> “(VII)</num><content> any other factor the administering authority determines to be relevant as to whether such sales are, or are not, likely to be typical of those the exporter or producer will make after completion of the review.”</content>
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</subclause>
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</clause>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</section>
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</subtitle>
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</title>
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<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="V">TITLE V—</num><heading>SMALL BUSINESS TRADE ISSUES AND STATE TRADE COORDINATION</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="501">SEC. 501. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> This title may be cited as the <shortTitle role="title">“Small Business Trade Enhancement Act of 2015”</shortTitle> or the <shortTitle role="title">“State Trade Coordination Act”</shortTitle>.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
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<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="502">SEC. 502. </num><heading>OUTREACH AND INPUT FROM SMALL BUSINESSES TO TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> <ref href="/us/pl/94/305/s203">Section 203 of Public Law 94–305</ref> (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s634c">15 U.S.C. 634c</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“The Office of Advocacy”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Office of Advocacy”</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Outreach and Input From Small Businesses on Trade Promotion Authority</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this subsection—</chapeau><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> the term <term>‘agency’</term> has the meaning given the term in <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s551">section 551 of title 5, United States Code</ref>;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the term <term>‘Chief Counsel for Advocacy’</term> means the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> the term <term>‘covered trade agreement’</term> means a trade agreement being negotiated pursuant to section 103(b) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4202/b">19 U.S.C. 4202(b)</ref>); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> the term <term>‘Working Group’</term> means the Interagency Working Group convened under paragraph (2)(A).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Working group</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 30 days after the date on which the President submits the notification required under section 105(a) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4204/a">19 U.S.C. 4204(a)</ref>), the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall convene an Interagency Working Group, which shall consist of an employee from each of the following agencies, as selected by the head of the agency or an official delegated by the head of the agency:</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> The Office of the United States Trade Representative.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> The Department of Commerce.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> The Department of Agriculture.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> Any other agency that the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, determines to be relevant with respect to the subject of the covered trade agreement.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Views of small businesses</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Chief Counsel for Advocacy convenes the Working Group under subparagraph (A), the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall identify a diverse group of small businesses, representatives of small businesses, or a combination thereof, to provide to the Working Group the views of small businesses in the manufacturing, services, and agriculture industries on the potential economic effects of the covered trade agreement.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Chief Counsel for Advocacy convenes the Working Group under paragraph (2)(A), the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report on the economic impacts of the covered trade agreement on small businesses, which shall—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> identify the most important priorities, opportunities, and challenges to various industries from the covered trade agreement;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> assess the impact for new small businesses to start exporting, or increase their exports, to markets in countries that are parties to the covered trade agreement;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> analyze the competitive position of industries likely to be significantly affected by the covered trade agreement;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><chapeau> identify—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> any State-owned enterprises in each country participating in negotiations for the covered trade agreement that could pose a threat to small businesses; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> any steps to take to create a level playing field for those small businesses;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> identify any rule of an agency that should be modified to become compliant with the covered trade agreement; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="vi"> “(vi)</num><content> include an overview of the methodology used to develop the report, including the number of small business participants by industry, how those small businesses were selected, and any other factors that the Chief Counsel for Advocacy may determine appropriate.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Delayed submission</inline>.—</heading><content>To ensure that negotiations for the covered trade agreement are not disrupted, the President may require that the Chief Counsel for Advocacy delay submission of the report under subparagraph (A) until after the negotiations for the covered trade agreement are concluded, provided that the delay allows the Chief Counsel for Advocacy to submit the report to Congress not later than 45 days before the Senate or the House of Representatives acts to approve or disapprove the covered trade agreement.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Avoidance of duplication</inline>.—</heading><content>The Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall, to the extent practicable, coordinate the submission of the report under this paragraph with the United States International Trade Commission, the United States Trade Representative, other agencies, and trade advisory committees to avoid unnecessary duplication of reporting requirements.”</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="503">SEC. 503. </num><heading>STATE TRADE EXPANSION PROGRAM.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 22 of the Small Business Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s649">15 U.S.C. 649</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (l) as subsection (m); and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (k) the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="l"> “(l)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">State Trade Expansion Program</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this subsection—</chapeau><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><chapeau> the term <term>‘eligible small business concern’</term> means a business concern that—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> is organized or incorporated in the United States;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> is operating in the United States;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><chapeau> meets—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the applicable industry-based small business size standard established under section 3; or</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> the alternate size standard applicable to the program under section 7(a) of this Act and the loan programs under title V of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s695/etseq">15 U.S.C. 695 et seq.</ref>);</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> has been in business for not less than 1 year, as of the date on which assistance using a grant under this subsection commences; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> has access to sufficient resources to bear the costs associated with trade, including the costs of packing, shipping, freight forwarding, and customs brokers;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the term <term>‘program’</term> means the State Trade Expansion Program established under paragraph (2);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> the term <term>‘rural small business concern’</term> means an eligible small business concern located in a rural area, as that term is defined in section 1393(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> the term <term>‘socially and economically disadvantaged small business concern’</term> has the meaning given that term in section 8(a)(4)(A) of the Small Business Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s637/a/4/A">15 U.S.C. 637(a)(4)(A)</ref>); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> the term <term>‘State’</term> means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment of program</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Associate Administrator shall establish a trade expansion program, to be known as the ‘State Trade Expansion Program’, to make grants to States to carry out programs that assist eligible small business concerns in—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> participation in foreign trade missions;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> a subscription to services provided by the Department of Commerce;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> the payment of website fees;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> the design of marketing media;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> a trade show exhibition;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> “(F)</num><content> participation in training workshops;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> “(G)</num><content> a reverse trade mission;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="H"> “(H)</num><content> procurement of consultancy services (after consultation with the Department of Commerce to avoid duplication); or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> any other initiative determined appropriate by the Associate Administrator.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Grants</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Joint review</inline>.—</heading><content>In carrying out the program, the Associate Administrator may make a grant to a State to increase the number of eligible small business concerns in the State exploring significant new trade opportunities.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Considerations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In making grants under this subsection, the Associate Administrator may give priority to an application by a State that proposes a program that—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> focuses on eligible small business concerns as part of a trade expansion program;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><chapeau> demonstrates intent to promote trade expansion by—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> small business concerns owned or controlled by women; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> “(III)</num><content> rural small business concerns;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> promotes trade facilitation from a State that is not 1 of the 10 States with the highest percentage of eligible small business concerns that are engaged in international trade, based upon the most recent data from the Department of Commerce; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><chapeau> includes—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> activities which have resulted in the highest return on investment based on the most recent year; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> the adoption of shared best practices included in the annual report of the Administration.</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Limitations</inline>.—</heading><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Single application</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may not submit more than 1 application for a grant under the program in any 1 fiscal year.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Proportion of amounts</inline>.—</heading><content>The total value of grants made under the program during a fiscal year to the 10 States with the highest percentage of eligible small business concerns, based upon the most recent data available from the Department of Commerce, shall be not more than 40 percent of the amounts appropriated for the program for that fiscal year.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duration</inline>.—</heading><content>The Associate Administrator shall award a grant under this program for a period of not more than 2 years.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Application</inline>.—</heading><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>A State desiring a grant under the program shall submit an application at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Associate Administrator may establish.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultation to reduce duplication</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State desiring a grant under the program shall—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> before submitting an application under clause (i), consult with applicable trade agencies of the Federal Government on the scope and mission of the activities the State proposes to carry out using the grant, to ensure proper coordination and reduce duplication in services; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> document the consultation conducted under subclause (I) in the application submitted under clause (i).</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Competitive basis</inline>.—</heading><content>The Associate Administrator shall award grants under the program on a competitive basis.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Federal share</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Federal share of the cost of a trade expansion program carried out using a grant under the program shall be—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> for a State that has a high trade volume, as determined by the Associate Administrator, not more than 65 percent; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> for a State that does not have a high trade volume, as determined by the Associate Administrator, not more than 75 percent.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Non-federal share</inline>.—</heading><content>The non-Federal share of the cost of a trade expansion program carried out using a grant under the program shall be comprised of not less than 50 percent cash and not more than 50 percent of indirect costs and in-kind contributions, except that no such costs or contributions may be derived from funds from any other Federal program.</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> “(7)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reports</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Initial report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Associate Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report, which shall include—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> a description of the structure of and procedures for the program;</content>
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</clause>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a management plan for the program; and</content>
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</clause>
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||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> a description of the merit-based review process to be used in the program.</content>
|
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</clause>
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual reports</inline>.—</heading><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Associate Administrator shall publish on the website of the Administration an annual report regarding the program, which shall include—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the number and amount of grants made under the program during the preceding year;</content>
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</subclause>
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||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> a list of the States receiving a grant under the program during the preceding year, including the activities being performed with each grant;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
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||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> “(III)</num><content> the effect of each grant on the eligible small business concerns in the State receiving the grant;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
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||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="IV"> “(IV)</num><content> the total return on investment for each State; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="V"> “(V)</num><content> a description of best practices by States that showed high returns on investment and significant progress in helping more eligible small business concerns.</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Notice to congress</inline>.—</heading><content>On the date on which the Associate Administrator publishes a report under clause (i), the Associate Administrator shall notify the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives that the report has been published.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> “(8)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reviews by inspector general</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Inspector General of the Administration shall conduct a review of—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> the extent to which recipients of grants under the program are measuring the performance of the activities being conducted and the results of the measurements; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> the overall management and effectiveness of the program.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reports</inline>.—</heading><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Pilot program</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Inspector General of the Administration shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report regarding the use of amounts made available under the State Trade and Export Promotion Grant Program under section 1207 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s649b">15 U.S.C. 649b note</ref>).</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">New step program</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 18 months after the date on which the first grant is awarded under this subsection, the Inspector General of the Administration shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report regarding the review conducted under subparagraph (A).</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> “(9)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Authorization of appropriations</inline>.—</heading><content>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the program $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2020.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="504">SEC. 504. </num><heading>STATE AND FEDERAL EXPORT PROMOTION COORDINATION.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">State and Federal Export Promotion Coordination Working Group</inline>.—</heading><content>Subtitle C of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s4721/etseq">15 U.S.C. 4721 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 2313 the following:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650145"><num value="2313A">“SEC. 2313A.</num><heading> STATE AND FEDERAL EXPORT PROMOTION COORDINATION WORKING GROUP.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Statement of Policy</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the policy of the United States to promote exports as an opportunity for small businesses. In exercising their powers and functions in order to advance that policy, all Federal agencies shall work constructively with State and local agencies engaged in export promotion and export financing activities.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>The President shall establish a State and Federal Export Promotion Coordination Working Group (in this section referred to as the ‘Working Group’) as a subcommittee of the Trade Promotion Coordination Committee (in this section referred to as the ‘TPCC’).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Purposes</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The purposes of the Working Group are—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> to identify issues related to the coordination of Federal resources relating to export promotion and export financing with such resources provided by State and local governments;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> to identify ways to improve coordination with respect to export promotion and export financing activities through the strategic plan developed under section 2312(c);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> to develop a strategy for improving coordination of Federal and State resources relating to export promotion and export financing, including methods to eliminate duplication of effort and overlapping functions; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> to develop a strategic plan for considering and implementing the suggestions of the Working Group as part of the strategic plan developed under section 2312(c).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Membership</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary of Commerce shall select the members of the Working Group, who shall include—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> representatives from State trade agencies representing regionally diverse areas; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> representatives of the departments and agencies that are represented on the TPCC, who are designated by the heads of their respective departments or agencies to advise the head on ways of promoting the exportation of United States goods and services.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on Improvements to Export.gov as a Single Window for Export Information</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Associate Administrator for International Trade of the Small Business Administration shall, after consultation with the entities specified in paragraph (2), submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes the recommendations of the Associate Administrator for improving the experience provided by the Internet website Export.gov (or a successor website) as—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a comprehensive resource for information about exporting articles from the United States; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a single website for exporters to submit all information required by the Federal Government with respect to the exportation of articles from the United States.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Entities specified</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The entities specified in this paragraph are—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> small business concerns (as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s632">15 U.S.C. 632</ref>)) that are exporters; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the President’s Export Council, State agencies with responsibility for export promotion or export financing, district export councils, and trade associations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appropriate congressional committees defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this subsection, the term <term>“appropriate congressional committees”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Availability of State Resources Guides on Export.gov</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary of Commerce shall make available on the Internet website Export.gov (or a successor website) information on the resources relating to export promotion and export financing available in each State—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> organized by State; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> including information on State agencies with responsibility for export promotion or export financing and district export councils and trade associations located in the State.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="505">SEC. 505. </num><heading>STATE TRADE COORDINATION.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Membership of Representatives of State Trade Promotion Agencies on Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 2312 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s4727">15 U.S.C. 4727</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in subsection (d)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (1) the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Representatives from state trade promotion agencies</inline>.—</heading><content>The TPCC shall also include 1 or more members appointed by the President who are representatives of State trade promotion agencies.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subsection (e), in the first sentence, by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“(other than members described in subsection (d)(2))”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“Members of the TPCC”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Federal and State Export Promotion Coordination Plan</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee and in coordination with representatives of State trade promotion agencies, shall develop a comprehensive plan to integrate the resources and strategies of State trade promotion agencies into the overall Federal trade promotion program.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Matters to be included</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The plan required under paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> A description of the role of State trade promotion agencies in assisting exporters.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> An outline of the role of State trade promotion agencies and how it is different from Federal agencies located within or providing services within the State.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> A plan on how to utilize State trade promotion agencies in the Federal trade promotion program.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> An explanation of how Federal and State agencies will share information and resources.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> A description of how Federal and State agencies will coordinate education and trade events in the United States and abroad.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> A description of the efforts to increase efficiency and reduce duplication.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> (G)</num><content> A clear identification of where businesses can receive appropriate international trade information under the plan.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Deadline</inline>.—</heading><content>The plan required under paragraph (1) shall be finalized and submitted to Congress not later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual Federal-State Export Strategy</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the head of the United States Foreign and Commercial Service, shall develop an annual Federal-State export strategy for each State that submits to the Secretary of Commerce its export strategy for the upcoming calendar year. In developing an annual Federal-State export strategy under this paragraph, the Secretary of Commerce shall take into account the Federal and State export promotion coordination plan developed under subsection (b).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Matters to be included</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Federal-State export strategy required under paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> The State’s export strategy and economic goals.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The State’s key sectors and industries of focus.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Possible foreign and domestic trade events.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> Efforts to increase efficiencies and reduce duplication.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><content>The Federal-State export strategy required under paragraph (1) shall be submitted to the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee not later than February 1, 2017, and February 1 of each year thereafter.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Coordinated Metrics and Information Sharing</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with representatives of State trade promotion agencies, shall develop a framework to share export success information, and develop a coordinated set of reporting metrics.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report to congress</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to Congress a report that contains the framework and reporting metrics required under paragraph (1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual Survey and Analysis and Report Under National Export Strategy</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 2312 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s4727">15 U.S.C. 4727</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in subsection (c)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> in paragraph (5), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in paragraph (6), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; and”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> “(7)</num><content> in coordination with State trade promotion agencies, include a survey and analysis regarding the overall effectiveness of Federal-State coordination and export promotion goals on an annual basis, to further include best practices, recommendations to better assist small businesses, and other relevant matters.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subsection (f)(1), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“(including implementation of the survey and analysis described in paragraph (7) of that subsection)”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“the implementation of such plan”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="VI">TITLE VI—</num><heading>ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS</heading>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="601">SEC. 601. </num><heading>TRADE ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 310 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2420">19 U.S.C. 2420</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="310">“SEC. 310.</num><heading> TRADE ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade Enforcement Priorities, Consultations, and Report</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade enforcement priorities consultations</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than May 31 of each calendar year that begins after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the United States Trade Representative (in this section referred to as the ‘Trade Representative’) shall consult with the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives with respect to the prioritization of acts, policies, or practices of foreign governments that raise concerns with respect to obligations under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, or otherwise create or maintain barriers to United States goods, services, or investment.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Identification of trade enforcement priorities</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In identifying acts, policies, or practices of foreign governments as trade enforcement priorities under this subsection, the Trade Representative shall focus on those acts, policies, and practices the elimination of which is likely to have the most significant potential to increase United States economic growth, and take into account all relevant factors, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> the economic significance of any potential inconsistency between an obligation assumed by a foreign government pursuant to a trade agreement to which both the foreign government and the United States are parties and the acts, policies, or practices of that government;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the impact of the acts, policies, or practices of a foreign government on maintaining and creating United States jobs and productive capacity;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> the major barriers and trade distorting practices described in the most recent National Trade Estimate required under section 181(b);</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> the major barriers and trade distorting practices described in other relevant reports addressing international trade and investment barriers prepared by a Federal agency or congressional commission during the 12 months preceding the date of the most recent report under paragraph (3);</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> a foreign government’s compliance with its obligations under any trade agreements to which both the foreign government and the United States are parties;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> “(F)</num><content> the implications of a foreign government’s procurement plans and policies; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> “(G)</num><content> the international competitive position and export potential of United States products and services.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on trade enforcement priorities and actions taken to address</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than July 31 of each calendar year that begins after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Trade Representative shall report to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives on acts, policies, or practices of foreign governments identified as trade enforcement priorities based on the consultations under paragraph (1) and the criteria set forth in paragraph (2).</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report in subsequent years</inline>.—</heading><content>The Trade Representative shall include, when reporting under subparagraph (A) in any calendar year after the calendar year that begins after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, a description of actions taken to address any acts, policies, or practices of foreign governments identified as trade enforcement priorities under this subsection in the calendar year preceding that report and, as relevant, any calendar year before that calendar year.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Semiannual Enforcement Consultations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>At the same time as the reporting under subsection (a)(3), and not later than January 31 of each following year, the Trade Representative shall consult with the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives with respect to the identification, prioritization, investigation, and resolution of acts, policies, or practices of foreign governments of concern with respect to obligations under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, or that otherwise create or maintain trade barriers.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Acts, policies, or practices of concern</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The semiannual enforcement consultations required by paragraph (1) shall address acts, policies, or practices of foreign governments that raise concerns with respect to obligations under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, or otherwise create or maintain trade barriers, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> engagement with relevant trading partners;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> strategies for addressing such concerns;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> availability and deployment of resources to be used in the investigation or resolution of such concerns;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> the merits of any potential dispute resolution proceeding under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party relating to such concerns; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> any other aspects of such concerns.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Active investigations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The semiannual enforcement consultations required by paragraph (1) shall address acts, policies, or practices that the Trade Representative is actively investigating with respect to obligations under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> strategies for addressing concerns raised by such acts, policies, or practices;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> any relevant timeline with respect to investigation of such acts, policies, or practices;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> the merits of any potential dispute resolution proceeding under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party with respect to such acts, policies, or practices;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> barriers to the advancement of the investigation of such acts, policies, or practices; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> any other matters relating to the investigation of such acts, policies, or practices.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Ongoing enforcement actions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The semiannual enforcement consultations required by paragraph (1) shall address all ongoing enforcement actions taken by or against the United States with respect to obligations under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> any relevant timeline with respect to such actions;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the merits of such actions;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> any prospective implementation actions;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> potential implications for any law or regulation of the United States;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> potential implications for United States stakeholders, domestic competitors, and exporters; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> “(F)</num><content> other issues relating to such actions.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Enforcement resources</inline>.—</heading><content>The semiannual enforcement consultations required by paragraph (1) shall address the availability and deployment of enforcement resources, resource constraints on monitoring and enforcement activities, and strategies to address those constraints, including the use of available resources of other Federal agencies to enhance monitoring and enforcement capabilities.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Investigation and Resolution</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of any acts, policies, or practices of a foreign government identified as a trade enforcement priority under subsection (a), the Trade Representative shall, not later than the date of the first semiannual enforcement consultations held under subsection (b) after the identification of the priority, take appropriate action to address that priority, including—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> engagement with the foreign government to resolve concerns raised by such acts, policies, or practices;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> initiation of an investigation under section 302(b)(1) with respect to such acts, policies, or practices;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> initiation of negotiations for a bilateral agreement that provides for resolution of concerns raised by such acts, policies, or practices; or</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> initiation of dispute settlement proceedings under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party with respect to such acts, policies, or practices.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Enforcement Notifications and Consultation</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Initiation of enforcement action</inline>.—</heading><content>The Trade Representative shall notify and consult with the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives in advance of the initiation of any formal trade dispute by or against the United States taken in regard to an obligation under the WTO Agreements or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party. With respect to a formal trade dispute against the United States, if advance notification and consultation are not possible, the Trade Representative shall notify and consult at the earliest practicable opportunity after initiation of the dispute.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Circulation of reports</inline>.—</heading><content>The Trade Representative shall notify and consult with the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives in advance of the announced or anticipated circulation of any report of a dispute settlement panel or the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization or of a dispute settlement panel under any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party with respect to a formal trade dispute by or against the United States.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> “(e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">WTO</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘WTO’</term> means the World Trade Organization.</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">WTO agreement</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘WTO Agreement’</term> has the meaning given that term in section 2(9) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3501/9">19 U.S.C. 3501(9)</ref>).</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">WTO agreements</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘WTO Agreements’</term> means the WTO Agreement and agreements annexed to that Agreement.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents for the Trade Act of 1974 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to section 310 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><?GPOvSpace 04?>
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<designator>“Sec. 310. </designator>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="602">SEC. 602. </num><heading>EXERCISE OF WTO AUTHORIZATION TO SUSPEND CONCESSIONS OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS UNDER TRADE AGREEMENTS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 306 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2416">19 U.S.C. 2416</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (c) as subsection (d); and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (b) the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exercise of WTO Authorization to Suspend Concessions or Other Obligations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> action has terminated pursuant to section 307(c),</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> the petitioner or any representative of the domestic industry that would benefit from reinstatement of action has submitted to the Trade Representative a written request for reinstatement of action, and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> the Trade Representatives has completed the requirements of subsection (d) and section 307(c)(3),</content>
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<continuation style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10">the Trade Representative may at any time determine to take action under section 301(c) to exercise an authorization to suspend concessions or other obligations under Article 22 of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (referred to in section 101(d)(16) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3511/d/16">19 U.S.C. 3511(d)(16)</ref>)).”</continuation>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Chapter 1 of title III of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2411/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2411 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in section 301(c)(1) (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2411/c/1">19 U.S.C. 2411(c)(1)</ref>), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or section 306(c)”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“subsection (a) or (b)”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in section 306(b) (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2416/b">19 U.S.C. 2416(b)</ref>), in the subsection heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<headingText class="small-caps">Further Action</headingText>”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<headingText class="small-caps">Action on the Basis of Monitoring</headingText>”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> in section 306(d) (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2416/d">19 U.S.C. 2416(d)</ref>), as redesignated by subsection (a)(1), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or (c)”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“subsection (b)”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> in section 307(c)(3) (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2417/c/3">19 U.S.C. 2417(c)(3)</ref>), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or if a request is submitted to the Trade Representative under section 306(c)(2) to reinstate action,”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“under section 301,”</quotedText>.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="603">SEC. 603. </num><heading>TRADE MONITORING.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Chapter 1 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2251/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2251 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="205">“SEC. 205.</num><heading> TRADE MONITORING.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Monitoring Tool for Imports</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Commission shall make available on a website of the Commission an import monitoring tool to allow the public access to data on the volume and value of goods imported to the United States for the purpose of assessing whether such data has changed with respect to such goods over a period of time.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Data described</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of the monitoring tool under paragraph (1), the Commission shall use data compiled by the Department of Commerce and such other government data as the Commission considers appropriate.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Periods of time</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall ensure that data accessed through the monitoring tool under paragraph (1) includes data for the most recent quarter for which such data are available and previous quarters as the Commission considers practicable.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Monitoring Reports</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, and not less frequently than quarterly thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall publish on a website of the Department of Commerce, and notify the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives of the availability of, a monitoring report on changes in the volume and value of trade with respect to imports and exports of goods categorized based on the 6-digit subheading number of the goods under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States during the most recent quarter for which such data are available and previous quarters as the Secretary considers practicable.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requests for comment</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Secretary of Commerce shall solicit through the Federal Register public comment on the monitoring reports described in paragraph (1).</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sunset</inline>.—</heading><content>The requirements under this section terminate on the date that is seven years after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.”</content>
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</section>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents for the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2101/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 204 the following:<quotedContent><?GPOvSpace 04?>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="604">SEC. 604. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERAGENCY CENTER ON TRADE IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING, AND ENFORCEMENT.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 141 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2171">19 U.S.C. 2171</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> “(h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment of center</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in the Office of the United States Trade Representative an Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement (in this section referred to as the ‘Center’).</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Functions of center</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Center shall support the activities of the United States Trade Representative in—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> investigating potential disputes under the auspices of the World Trade Organization;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> investigating potential disputes pursuant to bilateral and regional trade agreements to which the United States is a party;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> carrying out the functions of the United States Trade Representative under this section with respect to the monitoring and enforcement of trade agreements to which the United States is a party; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> monitoring measures taken by parties to implement provisions of trade agreements to which the United States is a party.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Personnel</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Director</inline>.—</heading><content>The head of the Center shall be a Director, who shall be appointed by the United States Trade Representative.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Additional employees</inline>.—</heading><content>A Federal agency may, in consultation with and with the approval of the United States Trade Representative, detail or assign one or more employees to the Center without any reimbursement from the Center to support the functions of the Center.”</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interagency Resources</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 141(d)(1)(A) of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2171/d/1/A">19 U.S.C. 2171(d)(1)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, including resources of the Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement established under subsection (h),”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“interagency resources”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reports</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 163 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2213">19 U.S.C. 2213</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in subsection (a)(2)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> in subparagraph (J), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in subparagraph (K), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; and”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="L"> “(L)</num><chapeau> the operation of the Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement established under section 141(h), including—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> information relating to the personnel of the Center, including a description of any employees detailed or assigned to the Center by a Federal agency under paragraph (3)(B) of such section;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> information relating to the functions of the Center; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> an assessment of the operating costs of the Center.”</content>
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</quotedContent>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Quadrennial Plan and Report</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Quadrennial plan</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Pursuant to the goals and objectives of the strategic plan of the Office of the United States Trade Representative as required under <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s306">section 306 of title 5, United States Code</ref>, the Trade Representative shall, every 4 years, develop a plan—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> to analyze internal quality controls and record management of the Office;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> to identify existing staff of the Office and new staff that will be necessary to support the trade negotiation and enforcement functions and powers of the Office (including those functions and powers of the Trade Policy Staff Committee) as described in section 141 and section 301;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> to identify existing staff of the Office and staff in other Federal agencies who will be required to be detailed or assigned to support interagency programs led by the Trade Representative, including any associated expenses;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> to provide an outline of budget justifications, including salaries and expenses as well as nonpersonnel administrative expenses, for the fiscal years required under the strategic plan; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> to provide an outline of budget justifications, including salaries and expenses as well as nonpersonnel administrative expenses, for interagency programs led by the Trade Representative for the fiscal years required under the strategic plan.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Trade Representative shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains the plan required under paragraph (1). Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the report required under this subparagraph shall be submitted in conjunction with the strategic plan of the Office as required under <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s306">section 306 of title 5, United States Code</ref>.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><content>The Trade Representative shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an initial report that contains the plan required under paragraph (1) not later than June 1, 2016.</content>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appropriate congressional committees defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this paragraph, the term <term>‘appropriate congressional committees’</term> means—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.”</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="605">SEC. 605. </num><heading>INCLUSION OF INTEREST IN CERTAIN DISTRIBUTIONS OF ANTIDUMPING DUTIES AND COUNTERVAILING DUTIES.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall deposit all interest described in subsection (c) into the special account established under section 754(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1675c/e">19 U.S.C. 1675c(e)</ref>) (<amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction> by subtitle F of title VII of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (<ref href="/us/pl/109/171">Public Law 109–171</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/120/154">120 Stat. 154</ref>)) for inclusion in distributions described in subsection (b) made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Distributions Described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Distributions described in this subsection are distributions of antidumping duties and countervailing duties assessed on or after October 1, 2000, that are made under section 754 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1675c">19 U.S.C. 1675c</ref>) (<amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction> by subtitle F of title VII of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (<ref href="/us/pl/109/171">Public Law 109–171</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/120/154">120 Stat. 154</ref>)), with respect to entries of merchandise that—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> were made on or before September 30, 2007; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> were, in accordance with section 822 of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1675c">19 U.S.C. 1675c note</ref>), unliquidated, not in litigation, and not under an order of liquidation from the Department of Commerce on December 8, 2010.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interest Described</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interest realized</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Interest described in this subsection is interest earned on antidumping duties or countervailing duties described in subsection (b) that is realized through application of a payment received on or after October 1, 2014, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection under, or in connection with—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a customs bond pursuant to a court order or judgment; or</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a settlement with respect to a customs bond, including any payment made to U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to that bond by a surety.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Types of interest</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Interest described in paragraph (1) includes the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> Interest accrued under section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1677g">19 U.S.C. 1677g</ref>).</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Interest accrued under section 505(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1505/d">19 U.S.C. 1505(d)</ref>).</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Equitable interest under common law and interest under section 963 of the Revised Statutes (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s580">19 U.S.C. 580</ref>) awarded by a court against a surety under its bond for late payment of antidumping duties, countervailing duties, or interest described in subparagraph (A) or (B).</content>
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</paragraph>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Antidumping duties</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“antidumping duties”</term> means antidumping duties imposed under section 731 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1673">19 U.S.C. 1673</ref>) or under the Antidumping Act, 1921 (title II of the Act of May 27, 1921; <ref href="/us/stat/42/11/ch14">42 Stat. 11, chapter 14</ref>).</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Countervailing duties</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“countervailing duties”</term> means countervailing duties imposed under section 701 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1671">19 U.S.C. 1671</ref>).</content>
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</subsection>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="606">SEC. 606. </num><heading>ILLICITLY IMPORTED, EXPORTED, OR TRAFFICKED CULTURAL PROPERTY, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR ETHNOLOGICAL MATERIALS, AND FISH, WILDLIFE, AND PLANTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall ensure that appropriate personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the case may be, are trained in the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants, the importation, exportation, or trafficking of which violates the laws of the United States.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Training</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner and the Director are authorized to accept training and other support services from experts outside of the Federal Government with respect to the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, or fish, wildlife, and plants described in subsection (a).</content>
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</subsection>
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</section>
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<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="607">SEC. 607. </num><heading>ENFORCEMENT UNDER TITLE III OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN ACTS, POLICIES, AND PRACTICES.</heading>
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<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 301(d)(3)(B) of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2411/d/3/B">19 U.S.C. 2411(d)(3)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in clause (ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in clause (iii)(V), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, or”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> constitutes a persistent pattern of conduct by the government of a foreign country under which that government fails to effectively enforce commitments under agreements to which the foreign country and the United States are parties, including with respect to trade in goods, trade in services, trade in agriculture, foreign investment, intellectual property, digital trade in goods and services and cross-border data flows, regulatory practices, state-owned and state-controlled enterprises, localization barriers to trade, labor and the environment, anticorruption, trade remedy laws, textiles, and commercial partnerships.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="608">SEC. 608. </num><heading>HONEY TRANSSHIPMENT.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall direct appropriate personnel and the use of resources of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to address concerns that honey is being imported into the United States in violation of the customs and trade laws of the United States.</content>
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||
</subsection>
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||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Country of Origin</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner 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.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Engagement with foreign governments</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall seek to engage the customs agencies of foreign governments for assistance in compiling the database described in paragraph (1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultation with industry</inline>.—</heading><content>In compiling the database described in paragraph (1), the Commissioner shall consult with entities in the honey industry regarding the development of industry standards for honey identification.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultation with food and drug administration</inline>.—</heading><content>In compiling the database described in paragraph (1), the Commissioner shall consult with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report Required</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall submit to Congress a report that—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> describes and assesses the limitations in the existing analysis capabilities of laboratories with respect to determining the country of origin of honey samples or the percentage of honey contained in a sample; and</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> includes any recommendations of the Commissioner for improving such capabilities.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subsection>
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||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sense of Congress</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>It is the sense of Congress that the Commissioner of Food and Drugs 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—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> classified accurately for purposes of assessing duties; and</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> denied entry into the United States if such imports pose a threat to the health or safety of consumers in the United States.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</subsection>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="609">SEC. 609. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF CHIEF INNOVATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 141 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2171">19 U.S.C. 2171</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in subsection (b)(2)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and one Chief Agricultural Negotiator”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, one Chief Agricultural Negotiator, and one Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator,”</quotedText>;</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or the Chief Agricultural Negotiator”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, the Chief Agricultural Negotiator, or the Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and the Chief Agricultural Negotiator”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, the Chief Agricultural Negotiator, and the Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> in subsection (c)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by moving paragraph (5) 2 ems to the left; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><content> The principal functions of the Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator shall be to conduct trade negotiations and to enforce trade agreements relating to United States intellectual property and to take appropriate actions to address acts, policies, and practices of foreign governments that have a significant adverse impact on the value of United States innovation. The Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator shall be a vigorous advocate on behalf of United States innovation and intellectual property interests. The Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator shall perform such other functions as the United States Trade Representative may direct.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Compensation</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5314">Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code</ref> <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Chief Agricultural Negotiator.”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><p style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> “Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the United States Trade Representative.</p><p style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> “Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator, Office of the United States Trade Representative.”</p></quotedContent>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report Required</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than one year after the appointment of the first Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator pursuant to paragraph (2) of section 141(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by subsection (a), and annually thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report describing in detail—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> enforcement actions taken by the Trade Representative during the one-year period preceding the submission of the report to ensure the protection of United States innovation and intellectual property interests; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> other actions taken by the Trade Representative to advance United States innovation and intellectual property interests.</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="610">SEC. 610. </num><heading>MEASURES RELATING TO COUNTRIES THAT DENY ADEQUATE PROTECTION FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Inclusion of Countries That Deny Adequate Protection of Trade Secrets</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 182(d)(2) of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2242/d/2">19 U.S.C. 2242(d)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, trade secrets,”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“copyrights”</quotedText>.</content>
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|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special Rules for Countries on the Priority Watch List of the United States Trade Representative</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2242">19 U.S.C. 2242</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (g) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> “(g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special Rules for Foreign Countries on the Priority Watch List</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Action plans</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the date on which the Trade Representative submits the National Trade Estimate under section 181(b), the Trade Representative shall develop an action plan described in subparagraph (C) with respect to each foreign country described in subparagraph (B).</content>
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Foreign country described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Trade Representative shall develop an action plan under subparagraph (A) with respect to each foreign country that—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> the Trade Representative has identified for placement on the priority watch list; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> has remained on such list for at least one year.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Action plan described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An action plan developed under subparagraph (A) shall contain the benchmarks described in subparagraph (D) and be designed to assist the foreign country—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><chapeau> to achieve—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights; and</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> fair and equitable market access for United States persons that rely upon intellectual property protection; or</content>
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||
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||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> to make significant progress toward achieving the goals described in clause (i).</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Benchmarks described</inline>.—</heading><content>The benchmarks contained in an action plan developed pursuant to subparagraph (A) are such legislative, institutional, enforcement, or other actions as the Trade Representative determines to be necessary for the foreign country to achieve the goals described in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (C).</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Failure to meet action plan benchmarks</inline>.—</heading><content>If, as of one year after the date on which an action plan is developed under paragraph (1)(A), the President, in consultation with the Trade Representative, determines that the foreign country to which the action plan applies has not substantially complied with the benchmarks described in paragraph (1)(D), the President may take appropriate action with respect to the foreign country.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Priority watch list defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this subsection, the term <term>‘priority watch list’</term> means the priority watch list established by the Trade Representative pursuant to subsection (a).</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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</subsection>
|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> “(h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Trade Representative submits the National Trade Estimate under section 181(b), the Trade Representative shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report on actions taken under this section during the 12 months preceding such report, and the reasons for such actions, including—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> a list of any foreign countries identified under subsection (a);</content>
|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> a description of progress made in achieving improved intellectual property protection and market access for persons relying on intellectual property rights; and</content>
|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> a description of the action plans developed under subsection (g) and any actions taken by foreign countries under such plans.”</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Funding</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Amounts from the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund established under section 611 may be expended by the United States Trade Representative, only as provided by appropriations Acts, to provide assistance to any developing country to which an action plan applies under section 182(g) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by paragraph (1), to facilitate the efforts of the developing country to comply with the benchmarks contained in the action plan. Such assistance may include capacity building, activities designed to increase awareness of intellectual property rights, and training for officials responsible for enforcing intellectual property rights in the developing country.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Developing country defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this paragraph, the term <term>“developing country”</term> means a country classified by the World Bank as having a low-income or lower-middle-income economy.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this subsection or the amendment made by this subsection shall be construed as limiting the authority of the President or the United States Trade Representative to develop action plans other than action plans described in section 182(g) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by paragraph (1), or to take any action otherwise authorized by law in response to the failure of a foreign country to provide adequate and effective protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="611">SEC. 611. </num><heading>TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund (in this section referred to as the “Trust Fund”), consisting of amounts transferred to the Trust Fund under subsection (b) and any amounts that may be credited to the Trust Fund under subsection (c).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Transfer of Amounts</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Trust Fund, from the general fund of the Treasury, for each fiscal year that begins on or after the date of the enactment of this Act through fiscal year 2026, an amount equal to $15,000,000 (or a lesser amount as required pursuant to paragraph (2)).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Limitation</inline>.—</heading><content>The total amount in the Trust Fund at any time may not exceed $30,000,000.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Frequency of transfers</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall transfer amounts required to be transferred to the Trust Fund under paragraph (1) not less frequently than quarterly from the general fund of the Treasury to the Trust Fund in a manner that ensures that the total amount in the Trust Fund at the end of the quarter does not exceed the limitation established under paragraph (2).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Investment of Amounts</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Investment of amounts</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall invest such portion of the Trust Fund as is not required to meet current withdrawals in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Interest and proceeds</inline>.—</heading><content>The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held in the Trust Fund shall be credited to and form a part of the Trust Fund.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Availability of Amounts From Trust Fund</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The United States Trade Representative shall, on the basis of the advice of the Trade Policy Committee and relevant subordinate bodies of the TPC, use or transfer for the use by Federal agencies represented on the TPC amounts in the Trust Fund, only as provided by appropriations Acts, for making expenditures for any of the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> To seek to enforce the provisions of and commitments and obligations under the WTO Agreements and free trade agreements to which the United States is a party and resolve any actions by foreign countries that are inconsistent with those provisions, commitments, and obligations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> To monitor and ensure the full implementation by foreign countries of the provisions of and commitments and obligations under free trade agreements to which the United States is a party for purposes of systematically assessing, identifying, investigating, or initiating steps to address inconsistencies with those provisions, commitments, and obligations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> To thoroughly investigate and respond to petitions under section 302 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2412">19 U.S.C. 2412</ref>) requesting that action be taken under section 301 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2411">19 U.S.C. 2411</ref>).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> To support capacity-building efforts undertaken by the United States pursuant to any free trade agreement to which the United States is a party and to prioritize and give special attention to the timely, consistent, and robust implementation of the commitments and obligations of a party to that free trade agreement, including commitments and obligations related to trade in goods, trade in services, trade in agriculture, foreign investment, intellectual property, digital trade in goods and services and cross-border data flows, regulatory practices, state-owned and state-controlled enterprises, localization barriers to trade, labor and the environment, currency, foreign currency manipulation, anticorruption, trade remedy laws, textiles, and commercial partnerships.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> To support capacity-building efforts undertaken by the United States pursuant to any such free trade agreement and to include performance indicators against which the progress and obstacles for the implementation of commitments and obligations can be identified and assessed within a meaningful time frame.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Limitation</inline>.—</heading><content>Amounts made available in the Trust Fund may not be used to offset costs of conducting negotiations for any free trade agreement to be entered into on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, but may be used to support implementation and capacity building prior to entry into force of a free trade agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 18 months after the entry into force of any free trade agreement entered into after the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States Trade Representative, in consultation with the Federal agencies represented on the TPC, shall submit to Congress a report on the actions taken under subsection (d) in connection with that agreement.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Comptroller General Study</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study that includes the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> A comprehensive analysis of the trade enforcement expenditures of each Federal agency with responsibilities relating to trade that specifies, with respect to each such Federal agency—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> the amounts appropriated for trade enforcement; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> the number of full-time employees carrying out activities relating to trade enforcement.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Recommendations on the additional employees and resources that each such Federal agency may need to effectively enforce the free trade agreements to which the United States is a party.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study conducted under paragraph (1).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade policy committee; tpc</inline>.—</heading><content>The terms “Trade Policy Committee” and “TPC” mean the interagency organization established under section 242 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1872">19 U.S.C. 1872</ref>).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">WTO</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“WTO”</term> means the World Trade Organization.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">WTO agreement</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“WTO Agreement”</term> has the meaning given that term in section 2(9) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3501/9">19 U.S.C. 3501(9)</ref>).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">WTO agreements</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“WTO Agreements”</term> means the WTO Agreement and agreements annexed to that Agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="VII">TITLE VII—</num><heading>ENGAGEMENT ON CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE AND ECONOMIC POLICIES</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="701">SEC. 701. </num><heading>ENHANCEMENT OF ENGAGEMENT ON CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE AND ECONOMIC POLICIES WITH CERTAIN MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS OF THE UNITED STATES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Major Trading Partner Report</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than once every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the macroeconomic and currency exchange rate policies of each country that is a major trading partner of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Elements</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall contain—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><chapeau> for each country that is a major trading partner of the United States—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> that country’s bilateral trade balance with the United States;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><content> that country’s current account balance as a percentage of its gross domestic product;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> (III)</num><content> the change in that country’s current account balance as a percentage of its gross domestic product during the 3-year period preceding the submission of the report;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="IV"> (IV)</num><content> that country’s foreign exchange reserves as a percentage of its short-term debt; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="V"> (V)</num><content> that country’s foreign exchange reserves as a percentage of its gross domestic product; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><chapeau> an enhanced analysis of macroeconomic and exchange rate policies for each country that is a major trading partner of the United States that has—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> a significant bilateral trade surplus with the United States;</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><content> a material current account surplus; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> (III)</num><content> engaged in persistent one-sided intervention in the foreign exchange market.</content>
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Enhanced analysis</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each enhanced analysis under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall include, for each country with respect to which an analysis is made under that subparagraph—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> a description of developments in the currency markets of that country, including, to the greatest extent feasible, developments with respect to currency interventions;</content>
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|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> a description of trends in the real effective exchange rate of the currency of that country and in the degree of undervaluation of that currency;</content>
|
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|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> an analysis of changes in the capital controls and trade restrictions of that country; and</content>
|
||
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|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> (iv)</num><content> patterns in the reserve accumulation of that country.</content>
|
||
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|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Assessment factors</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publicly describe the factors used to assess under paragraph (2)(A)(ii) whether a country has a significant bilateral trade surplus with the United States, has a material current account surplus, and has engaged in persistent one-sided intervention in the foreign exchange market.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Engagement on Exchange Rate and Economic Policies</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The President, through the Secretary, shall commence enhanced bilateral engagement with each country for which an enhanced analysis of macroeconomic and currency exchange rate policies is included in the report submitted under subsection (a), in order to, as appropriate—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> urge implementation of policies to address the causes of the undervaluation of its currency, its significant bilateral trade surplus with the United States, and its material current account surplus, including undervaluation and surpluses relating to exchange rate management;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> express the concern of the United States with respect to the adverse trade and economic effects of that undervaluation and those surpluses;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> advise that country of the ability of the President to take action under subsection (c); and/or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> develop a plan with specific actions to address that undervaluation and those surpluses.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Waiver</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary may waive the requirement under paragraph (1) to commence enhanced bilateral engagement with a country if the Secretary determines that commencing enhanced bilateral engagement with the country—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> would have an adverse impact on the United States economy greater than the benefits of such action; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> would cause serious harm to the national security of the United States.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Certification and report</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall promptly certify to Congress a determination under subparagraph (A) and promptly submit to Congress a report that describes in detail the reasons for the Secretary’s determination under subparagraph (A).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Remedial Action</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If, on or after the date that is one year after the commencement of enhanced bilateral engagement by the President, through the Secretary, with respect to a country under subsection (b)(1), the Secretary determines that the country has failed to adopt appropriate policies to correct the undervaluation and surpluses described in subsection (b)(1)(A) with respect to that country, the President shall take one or more of the following actions:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> Prohibit the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from approving any new financing (including any insurance, reinsurance, or guarantee) with respect to a project located in that country on and after such date.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Except as provided in paragraph (3), and pursuant to paragraph (4), prohibit the Federal Government from procuring, or entering into any contract for the procurement of, goods or services from that country on and after such date.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to call for additional rigorous surveillance of the macroeconomic and exchange rate policies of that country and, as appropriate, formal consultations on findings of currency manipulation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> Instruct the United States Trade Representative to take into account, in consultation with the Secretary, in assessing whether to enter into a bilateral or regional trade agreement with that country or to initiate or participate in negotiations with respect to a bilateral or regional trade agreement with that country, the extent to which that country has failed to adopt appropriate policies to correct the undervaluation and surpluses described in subsection (b)(1)(A).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Waiver</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The President may waive the requirement under paragraph (1) to take remedial action if the President determines that taking remedial action under paragraph (1) would—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> have an adverse impact on the United States economy greater than the benefits of taking remedial action; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> would cause serious harm to the national security of the United States.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Certification and report</inline>.—</heading><content>The President shall promptly certify to Congress a determination under subparagraph (A) and promptly submit to Congress a report that describes in detail the reasons for the President’s determination under subparagraph (A).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><content>The President may not apply a prohibition under paragraph (1)(B) in a manner that is inconsistent with United States obligations under international agreements.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Consultations</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of management and budget</inline>.—</heading><content>Before applying a prohibition under paragraph (1)(B), the President shall consult with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine whether such prohibition would subject the taxpayers of the United States to unreasonable cost.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>The President shall consult with the appropriate committees of Congress with respect to any action the President takes under paragraph (1)(B), including whether the President has consulted as required under subparagraph (A).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appropriate committees of congress</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“appropriate committees of Congress”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Country</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“country”</term> means a foreign country, dependent territory, or possession of a foreign country, and may include an association of 2 or more foreign countries, dependent territories, or possessions of countries into a customs union outside the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Real effective exchange rate</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“real effective exchange rate”</term> means a weighted average of bilateral exchange rates, expressed in price-adjusted terms.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“Secretary”</term> means the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="702">SEC. 702. </num><heading>ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE RATE POLICY.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established an Advisory Committee on International Exchange Rate Policy (in this section referred to as the “Committee”).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><content>The Committee shall be responsible for advising the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the impact of international exchange rates and financial policies on the economy of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Membership</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Committee shall be composed of 9 members as follows, none of whom shall be employees of the Federal Government:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> Three members shall be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, upon the recommendation of the chairmen and ranking members of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> Three members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, upon the recommendation of the chairmen and ranking members of the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Three members shall be appointed by the President.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Qualifications</inline>.—</heading><content>Members shall be selected under paragraph (1) on the basis of their objectivity and demonstrated expertise in finance, economics, or currency exchange.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Terms</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Members shall be appointed for a term of 2 years or until the Committee terminates.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reappointment</inline>.—</heading><content>A member may be reappointed to the Committee for additional terms.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Vacancies</inline>.—</heading><content>Any vacancy in the Committee shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duration of Committee</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Committee shall terminate on the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act unless renewed by the President for a subsequent 2-year period.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Continued renewal</inline>.—</heading><content>The President may continue to renew the Committee for successive 2-year periods by taking appropriate action to renew the Committee prior to the date on which the Committee would otherwise terminate.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Meetings</inline>.—</heading><content>The Committee shall hold not fewer than 2 meetings each calendar year.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Chairperson</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Committee shall elect from among its members a chairperson for a term of 2 years or until the Committee terminates.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reelection; subsequent terms</inline>.—</heading><content>A chairperson of the Committee may be reelected chairperson but is ineligible to serve consecutive terms as chairperson.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Staff</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Committee such staff, information, personnel, administrative services, and assistance as the Committee may reasonably require to carry out the activities of the Committee.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Application of the Federal Advisory Committee Act</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/app">5 U.S.C. App.</ref>) shall apply to the Committee.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Meetings of the Committee shall be exempt from the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of section 10 and section 11 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (relating to open meetings, public notice, public participation, and public availability of documents), whenever and to the extent it is determined by the President or the Secretary of the Treasury that such meetings will be concerned with matters the disclosure of which—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> would seriously compromise the development by the Government of the United States of monetary or financial policy; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><chapeau> is likely to—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> lead to significant financial speculation in currencies, securities, or commodities; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> significantly endanger the stability of any financial institution.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> (h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Authorization of Appropriations</inline>.—</heading><content>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury for each fiscal year in which the Committee is in effect $1,000,000 to carry out this section.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="VIII">TITLE VIII—</num><heading>MATTERS RELATING TO U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION</heading>
|
||
<subtitle style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="801">SEC. 801. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> This title may be cited as the <shortTitle role="title">“U.S. Customs and Border Protection Authorization Act”</shortTitle>.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="802">SEC. 802. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s211">6 U.S.C. 211</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="411">“SEC. 411.</num><heading> ESTABLISHMENT OF U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION; COMMISSIONER, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, AND OPERATIONAL OFFICES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in the Department an agency to be known as U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection a Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (in this section referred to as the ‘Commissioner’).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Committee referral</inline>.—</heading><content>As an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, any nomination for the Commissioner submitted to the Senate for confirmation, and referred to a committee, shall be referred to the Committee on Finance.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> coordinate and integrate the security, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement functions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> ensure the interdiction of persons and goods illegally entering or exiting the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> facilitate and expedite the flow of legitimate travelers and trade;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> direct and administer the commercial operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the enforcement of the customs and trade laws of the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><content> detect, respond to, and interdict terrorists, drug smugglers and traffickers, human smugglers and traffickers, and other persons who may undermine the security of the United States, in cases in which such persons are entering, or have recently entered, the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><content> safeguard the borders of the United States to protect against the entry of dangerous goods;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> “(7)</num><content> ensure the overall economic security of the United States is not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> “(8)</num><chapeau> in coordination with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, enforce and administer all immigration laws, as such term is defined in paragraph (17) of section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1101/a">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)</ref>), including—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> the inspection, processing, and admission of persons who seek to enter or depart the United States; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the detection, interdiction, removal, departure from the United States, short-term detention, and transfer of persons unlawfully entering, or who have recently unlawfully entered, the United States;</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> “(9)</num><content> develop and implement screening and targeting capabilities, including the screening, reviewing, identifying, and prioritizing of passengers and cargo across all international modes of transportation, both inbound and outbound;</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"> “(10)</num><content> in coordination with the Secretary, deploy technology to collect the data necessary for the Secretary to administer the biometric entry and exit data system pursuant to section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1365b">8 U.S.C. 1365b</ref>);</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"> “(11)</num><content> enforce and administer the laws relating to agricultural import and entry inspection referred to in section 421;</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"> “(12)</num><content> in coordination with the Under Secretary for Management of the Department, ensure U.S. Customs and Border Protection complies with Federal law, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and the Department’s acquisition management directives for major acquisition programs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"> “(13)</num><content> ensure that the policies and regulations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection are consistent with the obligations of the United States pursuant to international agreements;</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"> “(14)</num><chapeau> enforce and administer—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> the Container Security Initiative program under section 205 of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s945">6 U.S.C. 945</ref>); and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program under subtitle B of title II of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s961/etseq">6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.</ref>);</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"> “(15)</num><content> conduct polygraph examinations in accordance with section 3(1) of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010 (<ref href="/us/pl/111/376">Public Law 111–376</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/124/4105">124 Stat. 4105</ref>);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"> “(16)</num><content> establish the standard operating procedures described in subsection (k);</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"> “(17)</num><content> carry out the training required under subsection (l); and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"> “(18)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by law or delegated by the Secretary.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Deputy Commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be in U.S. Customs and Border Protection a Deputy Commissioner who shall assist the Commissioner in the management of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> “(e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">U.S. Border Patrol</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection the U.S. Border Patrol.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Chief</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>There shall be at the head of the U.S. Border Patrol a Chief, who shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> be at the level of Executive Assistant Commissioner within U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> report to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The U.S. Border Patrol shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> serve as the law enforcement office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with primary responsibility for interdicting persons attempting to illegally enter or exit the United States or goods being illegally imported into or exported from the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> deter and prevent the illegal entry of terrorists, terrorist weapons, persons, and contraband; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> “(f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Air and Marine Operations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection an office known as Air and Marine Operations.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Executive assistant commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of Air and Marine Operations an Executive Assistant Commissioner, who shall report to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Air and Marine Operations shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> serve as the law enforcement office within U.S. Customs and Border Protection with primary responsibility to detect, interdict, and prevent acts of terrorism and the unlawful movement of people, illicit drugs, and other contraband across the borders of the United States in the air and maritime environment;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> conduct joint aviation and marine operations with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> conduct aviation and marine operations with international, Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, as appropriate;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> administer the Air and Marine Operations Center established under paragraph (4); and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Air and marine operations center</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in Air and Marine Operations an Air and Marine Operations Center.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Executive director</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the Air and Marine Operations Center an Executive Director, who shall report to the Executive Assistant Commissioner of Air and Marine Operations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Air and Marine Operations Center shall—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> manage the air and maritime domain awareness of the Department, as directed by the Secretary;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> monitor and coordinate the airspace for unmanned aerial systems operations of Air and Marine Operations in U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> detect, identify, and coordinate a response to threats to national security in the air domain, in coordination with other appropriate agencies, as determined by the Executive Assistant Commissioner;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> provide aviation and marine support to other Federal, State, tribal, and local agencies; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Executive Assistant Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> “(g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of Field Operations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection an Office of Field Operations.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Executive assistant commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the Office of Field Operations an Executive Assistant Commissioner, who shall report to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Office of Field Operations shall coordinate the enforcement activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at United States air, land, and sea ports of entry to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> deter and prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States at such ports of entry;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> conduct inspections at such ports of entry to safeguard the United States from terrorism and illegal entry of persons;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> prevent illicit drugs, agricultural pests, and contraband from entering the United States;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> in coordination with the Commissioner, facilitate and expedite the flow of legitimate travelers and trade;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> administer the National Targeting Center established under paragraph (4);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> “(F)</num><content> coordinate with the Executive Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Trade with respect to the trade facilitation and trade enforcement activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> “(G)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">National targeting center</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in the Office of Field Operations a National Targeting Center.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Executive director</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the National Targeting Center an Executive Director, who shall report to the Executive Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Field Operations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The National Targeting Center shall—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> serve as the primary forum for targeting operations within U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect and analyze traveler and cargo information in advance of arrival in the United States to identify and address security risks and strengthen trade enforcement;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> identify, review, and target travelers and cargo for examination;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> coordinate the examination of entry and exit of travelers and cargo;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> develop and conduct commercial risk assessment targeting with respect to cargo destined for the United States;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> coordinate with the Transportation Security Administration, as appropriate;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="vi"> “(vi)</num><content> issue Trade Alerts pursuant to section 111(b) of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="vii"> “(vii)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Executive Assistant Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual report on staffing</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, and annually thereafter, the Executive Assistant Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report on the staffing model for the Office of Field Operations, including information on how many supervisors, front-line U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and support personnel are assigned to each Field Office and port of entry.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Form</inline>.—</heading><content>The report required under subparagraph (A) shall, to the greatest extent practicable, be submitted in unclassified form, but may be submitted in classified form, if the Executive Assistant Commissioner determines that such is appropriate and informs the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate of the reasoning for such.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> “(h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of Intelligence</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection an Office of Intelligence.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Assistant commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the Office of Intelligence an Assistant Commissioner, who shall report to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Office of Intelligence shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> develop, provide, coordinate, and implement intelligence capabilities into a cohesive intelligence enterprise to support the execution of the duties and responsibilities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> manage the counterintelligence operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> establish, in coordination with the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Department, as appropriate, intelligence-sharing relationships with Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies and intelligence agencies;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> conduct risk-based covert testing of U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations, including for nuclear and radiological risks; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of International Affairs</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection an Office of International Affairs.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Assistant commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the Office of International Affairs an Assistant Commissioner, who shall report to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Office of International Affairs, in collaboration with the Office of Policy of the Department, shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> coordinate and support U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s foreign initiatives, policies, programs, and activities;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> coordinate and support U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s personnel stationed abroad;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> maintain partnerships and information-sharing agreements and arrangements with foreign governments, international organizations, and United States agencies in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s duties and responsibilities;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> provide necessary capacity building, training, and assistance to foreign customs and border control agencies to strengthen border, global supply chain, and travel security, as appropriate;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> coordinate mission support services to sustain U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s global activities;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> “(F)</num><content> coordinate with customs authorities of foreign countries with respect to trade facilitation and trade enforcement;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> “(G)</num><content> coordinate U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s engagement in international negotiations;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="H"> “(H)</num><content> advise the Commissioner with respect to matters arising in the World Customs Organization and other international organizations as such matters relate to the policies and procedures of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> advise the Commissioner regarding international agreements to which the United States is a party as such agreements relate to the policies and regulations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="J"> “(J)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="j"> “(j)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of Professional Responsibility</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection an Office of Professional Responsibility.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Assistant commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the Office of Professional Responsibility an Assistant Commissioner, who shall report to the Commissioner.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Office of Professional Responsibility shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> investigate criminal and administrative matters and misconduct by officers, agents, and other employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> manage integrity-related programs and policies of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> conduct research and analysis regarding misconduct of officers, agents, and other employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> carry out other duties and powers prescribed by the Commissioner.</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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</subsection>
|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="k"> “(k)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Standard Operating Procedures</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall establish—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> standard operating procedures for searching, reviewing, retaining, and sharing information contained in communication, electronic, or digital devices encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel at United States ports of entry;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> standard use of force procedures that officers and agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection may employ in the execution of their duties, including the use of deadly force;</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content>uniform, standardized, and publicly-available procedures for processing and investigating complaints against officers, agents, and employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for violations of professional conduct, including the timely disposition of complaints and a written notification to the complainant of the status or outcome, as appropriate, of the related investigation, in accordance with <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s552a">section 552a of title 5, United States Code</ref> (commonly referred to as the ‘Privacy Act’ or the ‘Privacy Act of 1974’);</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> an internal, uniform reporting mechanism regarding incidents involving the use of deadly force by an officer or agent of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including an evaluation of the degree to which the procedures required under subparagraph (B) were followed; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><chapeau> standard operating procedures, acting through the Executive Assistant Commissioner for Air and Marine Operations and in coordination with the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Office of Privacy of the Department, to provide command, control, communication, surveillance, and reconnaissance assistance through the use of unmanned aerial systems, including the establishment of—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> a process for other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to submit mission requests;</content>
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</clause>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a formal procedure to determine whether to approve or deny such a mission request;</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> a formal procedure to determine how such mission requests are prioritized and coordinated; and</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> a process regarding the protection and privacy of data and images collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection through the use of unmanned aerial systems.</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements regarding certain notifications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The standard operating procedures established pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) shall require—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> in the case of a search of information conducted on an electronic device by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel, the Commissioner to notify the individual subject to such search of the purpose and authority for such search, and how such individual may obtain information on reporting concerns about such search; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> in the case of information collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection through a search of an electronic device, if such information is transmitted to another Federal agency for subject matter assistance, translation, or decryption, the Commissioner to notify the individual subject to such search of such transmission.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner may withhold the notifications required under paragraphs (1)(C) and (2) if the Commissioner determines, in the sole and unreviewable discretion of the Commissioner, that such notifications would impair national security, law enforcement, or other operational interests.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Update and review</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall review and update every three years the standard operating procedures required under this subsection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Audits</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security shall develop and annually administer, during each of the three calendar years beginning in the calendar year that begins after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, an auditing mechanism to review whether searches of electronic devices at or between United States ports of entry are being conducted in conformity with the standard operating procedures required under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1). Such audits shall be submitted to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and shall include the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> A description of the activities of officers and agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to such searches.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> The number of such searches.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> The number of instances in which information contained in such devices that were subjected to such searches was retained, copied, shared, or entered in an electronic database.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> The number of such devices detained as the result of such searches.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><content> The number of instances in which information collected from such devices was subjected to such searches and was transmitted to another Federal agency, including whether such transmissions resulted in a prosecution or conviction.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements regarding other notifications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The standard use of force procedures established pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) shall require—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> in the case of an incident of the use of deadly force by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel, the Commissioner to notify the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the Commissioner to provide to such committees a copy of the evaluation pursuant to subparagraph (D) of such paragraph not later than 30 days after completion of such evaluation.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> “(7)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on unmanned aerial systems</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate an annual report, for each of the three calendar years beginning in the calendar year that begins after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, that reviews whether the use of unmanned aerial systems is being conducted in conformity with the standard operating procedures required under subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1). Such reports—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> shall be submitted with the annual budget of the United States Government submitted by the President under <ref href="/us/usc/t31/s1105">section 1105 of title 31, United States Code</ref>;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> may be submitted in classified form if the Commissioner determines that such is appropriate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><chapeau> shall include—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> a detailed description of how, where, and for how long data and images collected through the use of unmanned aerial systems by U.S. Customs and Border Protection are collected and stored; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> a list of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies that submitted mission requests in the previous year and the disposition of such requests.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="l"> “(l)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Training</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall require all officers and agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to participate in a specified amount of continuing education (to be determined by the Commissioner) to maintain an understanding of Federal legal rulings, court decisions, and departmental policies, procedures, and guidelines.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="m"> “(m)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Short-term Detention Standards</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Access to food and water</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall make every effort to ensure that adequate access to food and water is provided to an individual apprehended and detained at a United States port of entry or between ports of entry as soon as practicable following the time of such apprehension or during subsequent short-term detention.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Access to information on detainee rights at border patrol processing centers</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall ensure that an individual apprehended by a U.S. Border Patrol agent or an Office of Field Operations officer is provided with information concerning such individual’s rights, including the right to contact a representative of such individual’s government for purposes of United States treaty obligations.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Form</inline>.—</heading><content>The information referred to in subparagraph (A) may be provided either verbally or in writing, and shall be posted in the detention holding cell in which such individual is being held. The information shall be provided in a language understandable to such individual.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Short-term detention defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this subsection, the term <term>‘short-term detention’</term> means detention in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing center for 72 hours or less, before repatriation to a country of nationality or last habitual residence.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Daytime repatriation</inline>.—</heading><content>When practicable, repatriations shall be limited to daylight hours and avoid locations that are determined to have high indices of crime and violence.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on procurement process and standards</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the procurement process and standards of entities with which U.S. Customs and Border Protection has contracts for the transportation and detention of individuals apprehended by agents or officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Such report should also consider the operational efficiency of contracting the transportation and detention of such individuals.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on inspections of short-term custody facilities</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> annually inspect all facilities utilized for short-term detention; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> make publicly available information collected pursuant to such inspections, including information regarding the requirements under paragraphs (1) and (2) and, where appropriate, issue recommendations to improve the conditions of such facilities.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="n"> “(n)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Wait Times Transparency</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> publish live wait times for travelers entering the United States at the 20 United States airports that support the highest volume of international travel (as determined by available Federal flight data);</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> make information about such wait times available to the public in real time through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, for each of the five calendar years beginning in the calendar year that begins after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, a report that includes compilations of all such wait times and a ranking of such United States airports by wait times; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> provide adequate staffing at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection information center to ensure timely access for travelers attempting to submit comments or speak with a representative about their entry experiences.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Calculation</inline>.—</heading><content>The wait times referred to in paragraph (1)(A) shall be determined by calculating the time elapsed between an individual’s entry into the U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection area and such individual’s clearance by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="o"> “(o)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other Authorities</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary may establish such other offices or positions of Assistant Commissioners (or other similar officers or officials) as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the missions, duties, functions, and authorities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Notification</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Secretary exercises the authority provided under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall notify the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate not later than 30 days before exercising such authority.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="p"> “(p)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reports to Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner shall, on and after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, continue to submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate any report required, on the day before such date of enactment, to be submitted under any provision of law.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="q"> “(q)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other Federal Agencies</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section may be construed as affecting in any manner the authority, existing on the day before the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, of any other Federal agency or component of the Department.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="r"> “(r)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the terms ‘commercial operations’, ‘customs and trade laws of the United States’, ‘trade enforcement’, and ‘trade facilitation’ have the meanings given such terms in section 2 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.”</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special Rules</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Treatment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by subsection (a) of this section, shall be treated as if included in such Act as of the date of the enactment of such Act, and, in addition to the functions, missions, duties, and authorities specified in such amended section 411, U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall continue to perform and carry out the functions, missions, duties, and authorities under section 411 of such Act as in existence on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, and section 415 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rules of construction</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rules and regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), nothing in this title or any amendment made by this title may be construed as affecting in any manner any rule or regulation issued or promulgated pursuant to any provision of law, including section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 as in existence on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, and any such rule or regulation shall continue to have full force and effect on and after such date.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other actions</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), nothing in this Act may be construed as affecting in any manner any action, determination, policy, or decision pursuant to section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 as in existence on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, and any such action, determination, policy, or decision shall continue to have full force and effect on and after such date.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Continuation in Office</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>The individual serving as the Commissioner of Customs on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act may serve as the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on and after such date of enactment until a Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is appointed under section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by subsection (a) of this section.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other positions</inline>.—</heading><content>The individual serving as Deputy Commissioner, and the individuals serving as Assistant Commissioners and other officers and officials, under section 411 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act may serve as the Executive Assistant Commissioners, Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioners, and other officers and officials, as appropriate, under such section 411 as amended by subsection (a) of this section unless the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines that another individual should hold such position or positions.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reference</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Title 5</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5314">Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Commissioner of Customs, Department of Homeland Security”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other references</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of the enactment of this Act, any reference in law or regulations to the “Commissioner of Customs” or the “Commissioner of the Customs Service” shall be deemed to be a reference to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s101/etseq">6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to section 411 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following new item:<quotedContent><?GPOvSpace 04?>
|
||
<toc>
|
||
<referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>“Sec. 411. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, and operational offices.”.<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</quotedContent></content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Repeals</inline>.—</heading><content>Sections 416 and 418 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s216">6 U.S.C. 216</ref> and 218), and the items relating to such sections in the table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act, are <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Clerical and Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s101/etseq">6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> in title I—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> in section 102(f)(10) (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s112/f/10">6 U.S.C. 112(f)(10)</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><chapeau> in section 103(a)(1) (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s113/a/1">6 U.S.C. 113(a)(1)</ref>)—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> in subparagraph (C), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“An Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security.”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“A Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><content> in subparagraph (G), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“A Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement.”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“A Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><chapeau> in title IV—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the title heading and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<b>BORDER, MARITIME, AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY</b>”</quotedText>;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><chapeau> in subtitle A—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the subtitle heading and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<b>Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security Responsibilities and Functions</b>”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><chapeau> in section 402 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s202">6 U.S.C. 202</ref>)—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> (aa)</num><content> in the section heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“responsibilities”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“border, maritime, and transportation responsibilities”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> (bb)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, acting through the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security,”</quotedText>;</content>
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</subclause>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><chapeau> in subtitle B—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the subtitle heading and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<b>U.S. Customs and Border Protection</b>”</quotedText>;</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><content> in section 412(b) (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s212">6 U.S.C. 212</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the United States Customs Service”</quotedText> each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>;</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> (III)</num><content> in section 413 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s213">6 U.S.C. 213</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“available to the United States Customs Service or”</quotedText>;</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="IV"> (IV)</num><content> in section 414 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s214">6 U.S.C. 214</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the United States Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="V"> (V)</num><chapeau> in section 415 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s215">6 U.S.C. 215</ref>)—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> (aa)</num><content> in paragraph (7), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> before the colon the following: <quotedText>“, and of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the day before the effective date of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Authorization Act”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</item>
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<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> (bb)</num><content> in paragraph (8), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> before the colon the following: <quotedText>“, and of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the day before the effective date of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Authorization Act”</quotedText>;</content>
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</subclause>
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</clause>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> (iv)</num><chapeau> in subtitle C—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> section 424 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s234">6 U.S.C. 234</ref>) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following new section:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="424">“SEC. 424.</num><heading> PRESERVATION OF TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AS A DISTINCT ENTITY.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> “Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Transportation Security Administration shall be maintained as a distinct entity within the Department.”</content>
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</section>
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</quotedContent>; and</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><chapeau> in section 430 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s238">6 U.S.C. 238</ref>)—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> (aa)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> subsection (a) to read as follows:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in the Department an Office for Domestic Preparedness.”</content>
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</subsection>
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</quotedContent>;</content>
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<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> (bb)</num><content> in subsection (b), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the second sentence; and</content>
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<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="cc"> (cc)</num><content> in subsection (c)(7), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Directorate”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Department”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</subclause>
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</clause>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> (v)</num><chapeau> in subtitle D—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><chapeau> in section 441 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s251">6 U.S.C. 251</ref>)—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> (aa)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the section heading and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“transfer of functions”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</item>
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<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> (bb)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Secretary”</quotedText>;</content>
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</item>
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><chapeau> in section 443 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s253">6 U.S.C. 253</ref>)—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> (aa)</num><content> in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Secretary”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</item>
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<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> (bb)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Bureau of Border Security”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”</quotedText> each place it appears; and</content>
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</item>
|
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</subclause>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> (III)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> section 444 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s254">6 U.S.C. 254</ref>) to read as follows:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="444">“SEC. 444.</num><heading> EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may impose disciplinary action on any employee of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection who willfully deceives Congress or agency leadership on any matter.”</content>
|
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</section>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
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</subclause>
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</clause>
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</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming amendments</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 401 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s201">6 U.S.C. 201</ref>) is <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>.</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Clerical amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to title IV and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><toc>
|
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<referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="title">
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<designator>“TITLE IV—</designator>
|
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<label>BORDER, MARITIME, AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY”;<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
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</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</quotedContent></content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to subtitle A of title IV and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><toc>
|
||
<referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
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<designator>“Subtitle A—</designator>
|
||
<label>Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security Responsibilities and Functions”;<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</quotedContent></content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to section 401;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to subtitle B of title IV and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><toc>
|
||
<referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651174" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>“Subtitle B—</designator>
|
||
<label>U.S. Customs and Border Protection”;<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</quotedContent></content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to section 441 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><?GPOvSpace 04?>
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<toc>
|
||
<referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>“Sec. 441. </designator>
|
||
<label>Transfer of functions.”; and<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</quotedContent></content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the item relating to section 442 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><?GPOvSpace 04?>
|
||
<toc>
|
||
<referenceItem style="-uslm-lc:I651142" role="section">
|
||
<designator>“Sec. 442. </designator>
|
||
<label>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”.<?GPOvSpace 04?></label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
</quotedContent></content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> (h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of Trade</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade offices and functions</inline>.—</heading><content>The Act of March 3, 1927 (<ref href="/us/stat/44/1381/ch348">44 Stat. 1381, chapter 348</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2071/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2071 et seq.</ref>), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="4">“SEC. 4.</num><heading> OFFICE OF TRADE.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> “(a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in U.S. Customs and Border Protection an Office of Trade.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Executive Assistant Commissioner</inline>.—</heading><content>There shall be at the head of the Office of Trade an Executive Assistant Commissioner, who shall report to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Office of Trade shall—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> direct the development and implementation, pursuant to the customs and trade laws of the United States, of policies and regulations administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> advise the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to the impact on trade facilitation and trade enforcement of any policy or regulation otherwise proposed or administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> coordinate with the Executive Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Field Operations with respect to the trade facilitation and trade enforcement activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> direct the development and implementation of matters relating to the priority trade issues identified by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the joint strategic plan for trade facilitation and trade enforcement required under section 105 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><content> otherwise advise the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection with respect to the development and implementation of the joint strategic plan;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><content> direct the trade enforcement activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> “(7)</num><content> oversee the trade modernization activities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including the development and implementation of the Automated Commercial Environment computer system authorized under section 13031(f)(4) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/f/4">19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(4)</ref>) 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 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1411/d">19 U.S.C. 1411(d)</ref>);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> “(8)</num><content> direct the administration of customs revenue functions as otherwise provided by law or delegated by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> “(9)</num><chapeau> prepare 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 June 1, 2016, and March 1 of each calendar year thereafter that includes—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> a summary of the changes to customs policies and regulations adopted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the preceding calendar year; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> a description of the public vetting and interagency consultation that occurred with respect to each such change.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> “(d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Transfer of Assets, Functions, Personnel, or Liabilities; Elimination of Offices</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of international trade</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Transfer</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall transfer the assets, functions, personnel, and liabilities of the Office of International Trade to the Office of Trade established under subsection (b).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Elimination</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Office of International Trade shall be abolished.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Limitation on funds</inline>.—</heading><content>No funds appropriated to U.S. Customs and Border Protection or the Department of Homeland Security may be used to transfer the assets, functions, personnel, or liabilities of the Office of International Trade to an office other than the Office of Trade established under subsection (a), unless the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection notifies the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate of the specific assets, functions, personnel, or liabilities to be transferred, and the reason for the transfer, not less than 90 days prior to the transfer of such assets, functions, personnel, or liabilities.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Office of international trade defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this paragraph, the term <term>‘Office of International Trade’</term> means the Office of International Trade established by section 2 of this Act and as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Other transfers</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is authorized to transfer any other assets, functions, or personnel within U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the Office of Trade established under subsection (a).</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Congressional notification</inline>.—</heading><content>Not less than 90 days prior to the transfer of assets, functions, personnel, or liabilities under subparagraph (A), the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall notify the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate of the specific assets, functions, personnel, or liabilities to be transferred, and the reason for such transfer.</content>
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|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> “(e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the terms ‘customs and trade laws of the United States’, ‘trade enforcement’, and ‘trade facilitation’ have the meanings given such terms in section 2 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.”</content>
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</section>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Continuation in office</inline>.—</heading><content>The individual serving as the Assistant Commissioner of the Office of International Trade on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act may serve as the Executive Assistant Commissioner of Trade on and after such date of enactment, at the discretion of the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 2 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (44. Stat. 1381, chapter 348; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2072">19 U.S.C. 2072</ref>), as added by section 402 of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/pl/109/347">Public Law 109–347</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/120/1924">120 Stat. 1924</ref>), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (d); and</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsections (e) and (f) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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</paragraph>
|
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</subsection>
|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reports and Assessments</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on business transformation initiative</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for the next five years, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Business Transformation Initiative, including locations where the Initiative is deployed, the types of equipment utilized, a description of protocols and procedures, information on wait times at such locations since deployment, and information regarding the schedule for deployment at new locations.</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Port of entry infrastructure needs assessments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall assess the physical infrastructure and technology needs at the 20 busiest land ports of entry (as measured by U.S. Customs and Border Protection) with a particular attention to identify ways to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> improve travel and trade facilitation;</content>
|
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> reduce wait times;</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> improve physical infrastructure and conditions for individuals accessing pedestrian ports of entry;</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> enter into long-term leases with nongovernmental and private sector entities;</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> enter into lease-purchase agreements with nongovernmental and private sector entities; and</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="F"> (F)</num><content> achieve cost savings through leases described in subparagraphs (D) and (E).</content>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Personal searches</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for the next three years, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on supervisor-approved personal searches conducted in the previous year by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. Such report shall include the number of personal searches conducted in each sector and field office, the number of invasive personal searches conducted in each sector and field office, whether personal searches were conducted by Office of Field Operations or U.S. Border Patrol personnel, and how many personal searches resulted in the discovery of contraband.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="j"> (j)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trusted Traveler Programs</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Secretary of Homeland Security may not enter into or renew an agreement with the government of a foreign country for a trusted traveler program administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection unless the Secretary certifies in writing that such government—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> routinely submits to INTERPOL for inclusion in INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database information about lost and stolen passports and travel documents of the citizens and nationals of such country; or</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> makes available to the United States Government the information described in paragraph (1) through another means of reporting.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="k"> (k)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Agricultural Specialist Career Track</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a plan to create an agricultural specialist career track within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Such plan shall include the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> A description of education, training, experience, and assignments necessary for career progression as an agricultural specialist.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> Recruitment and retention goals for agricultural specialists, including a timeline for fulfilling staffing deficits identified in agricultural resource allocation models.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> An assessment of equipment and other resources needed to support agricultural specialists.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> Any other factors the Commissioner determines appropriate.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="l"> (l)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sense of Congress Regarding the Foreign Language Award Program</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress finds the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> Congress established the Foreign Language Award Program (FLAP) to incentivize employees at United States ports of entry to utilize their foreign language skills on the job by providing a financial incentive for the use of the foreign language for at least ten percent of their duties after passage of competency tests. FLAP incentivizes the use of more than two dozen languages and has been instrumental in identifying and utilizing U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agents who are proficient in a foreign language.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> In 1993, Congress provided for dedicated funding for this program by stipulating that certain fees collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection be used to fund FLAP.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Through FLAP, foreign travelers are aided by having an officer at a port of entry who speaks their language, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection benefits by being able to focus its border security efforts in a more effective manner.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sense of congress</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the sense of Congress that FLAP incentivizes U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to attain and maintain competency in a foreign language, thereby improving the efficiency of operations for the functioning of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s security mission, making the United States a more welcoming place when foreign travelers find officers can communicate in their language, and helping to expedite traveler processing to reduce wait times.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Preclearance Operations</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="811">SEC. 811. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> This subtitle may be cited as the <shortTitle role="subtitle">“Preclearance Authorization Act of 2015”</shortTitle>.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="812">SEC. 812. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> In this subtitle:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appropriate congressional committees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“appropriate congressional committees”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“Secretary”</term> means the Secretary of Homeland Security.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="813">SEC. 813. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF PRECLEARANCE OPERATIONS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Pursuant to section 629 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1629">19 U.S.C. 1629</ref>) and section 103(a)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1103/a/7">8 U.S.C. 1103(a)(7)</ref>), and provided that an aviation security preclearance agreement (as defined in <ref href="/us/usc/t49/s44901/d/4/B">section 44901(d)(4)(B) of title 49, United States Code</ref>) is in effect, the Secretary may establish and maintain U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations in a foreign country—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> to prevent terrorists, instruments of terrorism, and other security threats from entering the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> to prevent inadmissible persons from entering the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> to ensure that merchandise destined for the United States complies with applicable laws;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> to ensure the prompt processing of persons eligible to travel to the United States; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> to accomplish such other objectives as the Secretary determines are necessary to protect the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="814">SEC. 814. </num><heading>NOTIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION TO CONGRESS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Initial Notification</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 60 days before an agreement with the government of a foreign country to establish U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations in such foreign country enters into force, the Secretary shall provide the appropriate congressional committees with—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> a copy of the agreement to establish such preclearance operations, which shall include—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the identification of the foreign country with which U.S. Customs and Border Protection intends to enter into a preclearance agreement;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the location at which such preclearance operations will be conducted; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> the terms and conditions for U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel operating at the location;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> an assessment of the impact such preclearance operations will have on legitimate trade and travel, including potential impacts on passengers traveling to the United States;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> an assessment of the impacts such preclearance operations will have on U.S. Customs and Border Protection domestic port of entry staffing;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> country-specific information on the anticipated homeland security benefits associated with establishing such preclearance operations;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> information on potential security vulnerabilities associated with commencing such preclearance operations and mitigation plans to address such potential security vulnerabilities;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> a U.S. Customs and Border Protection staffing model for such preclearance operations and plans for how such positions would be filled; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> information on the anticipated costs over the 5 fiscal years after the agreement enters into force associated with commencing such preclearance operations.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Further Notification Relating to Preclearance Operations Established at Airports</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 45 days before an agreement with the government of a foreign country to establish U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations at an airport in such country enters into force, the Secretary, in addition to complying with the notification requirements under subsection (a), shall provide the appropriate congressional committees with—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> an estimate of the date on which U.S. Customs and Border Protection intends to establish preclearance operations under such agreement, including any pending caveats that must be resolved before preclearance operations are approved;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the anticipated funding sources for preclearance operations under such agreement, and other funding sources considered;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> a homeland security threat assessment for the country in which such preclearance operations are to be established;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> information on potential economic, competitive, and job impacts on United States air carriers associated with establishing such preclearance operations;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> details on information sharing mechanisms to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has current information to prevent terrorist and criminal travel; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> other factors that the Secretary determines to be necessary for Congress to comprehensively assess the appropriateness of commencing such preclearance operations.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Certifications Relating to Preclearance Operations Established at Airports</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 60 days before an agreement with the government of a foreign country to establish U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations at an airport in such country enters into force, the Secretary, in addition to complying with the notification requirements under subsections (a) and (b), shall provide the appropriate congressional committees with—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> a certification that preclearance operations under such preclearance agreement, after considering alternative options, would provide homeland security benefits to the United States through the most effective means possible;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> a certification that preclearance operations within such foreign country will be established under such agreement only if—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> at least one United States passenger carrier operates at such airport; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> any United States passenger carriers operating at such airport and desiring to participate in preclearance operations are provided access that is comparable to that of any non-United States passenger carrier operating at that airport;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> a certification that the establishment of preclearance operations in such foreign country will not significantly increase customs processing times at United States airports;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> a certification that representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Protection consulted with stakeholders, including providers of commercial air service in the United States, employees of such providers, security experts, and such other parties as the Secretary determines to be appropriate; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> a report detailing the basis for the certifications referred to in paragraphs (1) through (4).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Amendment of Existing Agreements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 30 days before a substantially amended preclearance agreement with the government of a foreign country in effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act enters into force, the Secretary shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> a copy of the agreement, as amended; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the justification for such amendment.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Implementation Plan</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner shall report to the appropriate congressional committees, on a quarterly basis—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, by port, assigned from domestic ports of entry to preclearance operations; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the number of the positions at domestic ports of entry vacated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers described in subparagraph (A) that have been filled by other hired, trained, and equipped U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Submission</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner has not filled the positions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers that were reassigned to preclearance operations and determines that U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing times at domestic ports of entry from which U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were reassigned to preclearance operations have significantly increased, the Commissioner, not later than 60 days after making such a determination, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an implementation plan for reducing processing times at the domestic ports of entry with such increased processing times.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Suspension</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner does not submit the implementation plan described in paragraph (2) to the appropriate congressional committees before the deadline set forth in such paragraph, the Commissioner may not commence preclearance operations at an additional port of entry in any country until such implementation plan is submitted.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Classified Report</inline>.—</heading><content>The report required under subsection (c)(5) may be submitted in classified form if the Secretary determines that such form is appropriate.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="815">SEC. 815. </num><heading>PROTOCOLS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> <ref href="/us/usc/t49/s44901/d/4">Section 44901(d)(4) of title 49, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subparagraph (B) the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rescreening requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration determines that the government of a foreign country has not maintained security standards and protocols comparable to those of the United States at airports at which preclearance operations have been established in accordance with this paragraph, the Administrator shall ensure that Transportation Security Administration personnel rescreen passengers arriving from such airports and their property in the United States before such passengers are permitted into sterile areas of airports in the United States.”</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="816">SEC. 816. </num><heading>LOST AND STOLEN PASSPORTS.</heading>
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<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> The Secretary may not enter into an agreement with the government of a foreign country to establish or maintain U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations at an airport in such country unless the Secretary certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such government—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> routinely submits information about lost and stolen passports of its citizens and nationals to INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document database; or</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> makes such information available to the United States Government through another comparable means of reporting.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="817">SEC. 817. </num><heading>RECOVERY OF INITIAL U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION PRECLEARANCE OPERATIONS COSTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Cost Sharing Agreements With Relevant Airport Authorities</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commissioner may enter into a cost sharing agreement with airport authorities in foreign countries at which preclearance operations are to be established or maintained if—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> an executive agreement to establish or maintain such preclearance operations pursuant to the authorities under section 629 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1629">19 U.S.C. 1629</ref>) and section 103(a)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1103/a/7">8 U.S.C. 1103(a)(7)</ref>) has been signed, but has not yet entered into force; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> U.S. Customs and Border Protection has incurred, or expects to incur, initial preclearance operations costs in order to establish or maintain preclearance operations under the agreement described in paragraph (1).</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Contents of Cost Sharing Agreements</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding section 13031(e) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/e">19 U.S.C. 58c(e)</ref>) and section 286(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1356/g">8 U.S.C. 1356(g)</ref>), any cost sharing agreement with an airport authority authorized under subsection (a) may provide for the airport authority’s payment to U.S. Customs and Border Protection of its initial preclearance operations costs.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Timing of payments</inline>.—</heading><content>The airport authority’s payment to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for its initial preclearance operations costs may be made in advance of the incurrence of the costs or on a reimbursable basis.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Account</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>All amounts collected pursuant to any cost sharing agreement authorized under subsection (a)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> shall be credited as offsetting collections to the currently applicable appropriation, account, or fund of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> shall remain available, until expended, for the purposes for which such appropriation, account, or fund is authorized to be used; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> may be collected and shall be available only to the extent provided in appropriations Acts.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Return of unused funds</inline>.—</heading><content>Any advances or reimbursements not used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be returned to the relevant airport authority.</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this subsection may be construed to preclude the use of appropriated funds from sources other than the payments collected under this subtitle to pay initial preclearance operation costs.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Defined Term</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section, the term <term>“initial preclearance operations costs”</term> means the costs incurred, or expected to be incurred, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to establish or maintain preclearance operations at an airport in a foreign country, including costs relating to—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> hiring, training, and equipping new U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who will be stationed at United States domestic ports of entry or other U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities to backfill U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to be stationed at an airport in a foreign country to conduct preclearance operations; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> visits to the airport authority conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel necessary to prepare for the establishment or maintenance of preclearance operations at such airport, including the compensation, travel expenses, and allowances payable to such personnel attributable to such visits.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><content>The costs described in paragraph (1)(A) shall not include the salaries and benefits of new U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers once such officers are permanently stationed at a domestic United States port of entry or other domestic U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility after being hired, trained, and equipped.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rule of Construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as otherwise provided in this section, nothing in this section may be construed as affecting the responsibilities, duties, or authorities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</content>
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</subsection>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="818">SEC. 818. </num><heading>COLLECTION AND DISPOSITION OF FUNDS COLLECTED FOR IMMIGRATION INSPECTION SERVICES AND PRECLEARANCE ACTIVITIES.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Immigration and Nationality Act</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 286(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1356/i">8 U.S.C. 1356(i)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the last sentence and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: <quotedText>“Reimbursements under this subsection may be collected in advance of the provision of such immigration inspection services. Notwithstanding subsection (h)(1)(B), and only to the extent provided in appropriations Acts, any amounts collected under this subsection shall be credited as offsetting collections to the currently applicable appropriation, account, or fund of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, remain available until expended, and be available for the purposes for which such appropriation, account, or fund is authorized to be used.”</quotedText>.</content>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 10412(b) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t7/s8311/b">7 U.S.C. 8311(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Funds Collected for Preclearance</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Funds collected for preclearance activities—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> may be collected in advance of the provision of such activities;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> shall be credited as offsetting collections to the currently applicable appropriation, account, or fund of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><content> shall remain available until expended;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> shall be available for the purposes for which such appropriation, account, or fund is authorized to be used; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><content> may be collected and shall be available only to the extent provided in appropriations Acts.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="819">SEC. 819. </num><heading>APPLICATION TO NEW AND EXISTING PRECLEARANCE OPERATIONS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> Except for sections 814(d), 815, 817, and 818, this subtitle shall only apply to the establishment of preclearance operations in a foreign country in which no preclearance operations have been established as of the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</subtitle>
|
||
</title>
|
||
<title style="-uslm-lc:I650178"><num value="IX">TITLE IX—</num><heading>MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</heading>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="901">SEC. 901. </num><heading>DE MINIMIS VALUE.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress makes the following findings:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> Modernizing international customs is critical for United States businesses of all sizes, consumers in the United States, and the economic growth of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> Higher thresholds for the value of articles that may be entered informally and free of duty provide significant economic benefits to businesses and consumers in the United States and the economy of the United States through costs savings and reductions in trade transaction costs.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sense of Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative should encourage other countries, through bilateral, regional, and multilateral fora, to establish commercially meaningful de minimis values for express and postal shipments that are exempt from customs duties and taxes and from certain entry documentation requirements, as appropriate.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">De Minimis Value</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 321(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1321/a/2/C">19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“$200”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“$800”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (c) shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="902">SEC. 902. </num><heading>CONSULTATION ON TRADE AND CUSTOMS REVENUE FUNCTIONS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 401(c) of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s115/c">6 U.S.C. 115(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“on Department policies and actions that have”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“not later than 30 days after proposing, and not later than 30 days before finalizing, any Department policies, initiatives, or actions that will have”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in paragraph (2)(A), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“not later than 30 days prior to the finalization of”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“not later than 60 days before proposing, and not later than 60 days before finalizing,”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="903">SEC. 903. </num><heading>PENALTIES FOR CUSTOMS BROKERS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 641(d)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1641/d/1">19 U.S.C. 1641(d)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in subparagraph (E), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; or”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> a semicolon;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subparagraph (F), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; or”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="G"> “(G)</num><content>has been convicted of committing or conspiring to commit an act of terrorism described in <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s2332b">section 2332b of title 18, United States Code</ref>.”</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Technical Amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 641 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1641">19 U.S.C. 1641</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Customs Service”</quotedText> each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>;</content>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subsection (d)(2)(B), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“The Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> in subsection (g)(2)(B), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Secretary’s notice”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“notice under subparagraph (A)”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="904">SEC. 904. </num><heading>AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 98 OF THE HARMONIZED TARIFF SCHEDULE OF THE UNITED STATES.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Articles Exported and Returned, Advanced or Improved Abroad</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>U.S. Note 3 to subchapter II of chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> “(f)</num><paragraph class="inline"><num value="1">(1)</num><chapeau> For purposes of subheadings 9802.00.40 and 9802.00.50, fungible articles exported from the United States for the purposes described in such subheadings—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> may be commingled; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the origin, value, and classification of such articles may be accounted for using an inventory management method.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> If a person chooses to use an inventory management method under this paragraph with respect to fungible articles, the person shall use the same inventory management method for any other articles with respect to which the person claims fungibility under this paragraph.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><chapeau> For the purposes of this paragraph—</chapeau><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> the term <term>‘fungible articles’</term> means merchandise or articles that, for commercial purposes, are identical or interchangeable in all situations; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the term <term>‘inventory management method’</term> means any method for managing inventory that is based on generally accepted accounting principles.”</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
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</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by this subsection applies to articles classifiable under subheading 9802.00.40 or 9802.00.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Modification of Provisions Relating to Returned Property</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The article description for heading 9801.00.10 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after <quotedText>“exported”</quotedText> the following: <quotedText>“, or any other products when returned within 3 years after having been exported”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by paragraph (1) applies to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Duty-Free Treatment for Certain United States Government Property Returned to the United States</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Subchapter I of chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> in numerical sequence the following new heading:<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c8,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls35,r60,xls25,xls38,xls38,xls38,3'; ">
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by paragraph (1) applies to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="905">SEC. 905. </num><heading>EXEMPTION FROM DUTY OF RESIDUE OF BULK CARGO CONTAINED IN INSTRUMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC PREVIOUSLY EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>General Note 3(e) of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in subparagraph (v), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subparagraph (vi), by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subparagraph (vi) (as so amended) the following new subparagraph:<quotedContent><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="vii"> “(vii)</num><content> residue of bulk cargo contained in instruments of international traffic previously exported from the United States,”</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end of the flush text following subparagraph (vii) (as so added) the following: <quotedText>“For purposes of subparagraph (vii) of this paragraph: The term <term>‘residue’</term> means material of bulk cargo that remains in an instrument of international traffic after the bulk cargo is removed, with a quantity, by weight or volume, not exceeding 7 percent of the bulk cargo, and with no or de minimis value. The term <term>‘bulk cargo’</term> means cargo that is unpackaged and is in either solid, liquid, or gaseous form. The term <term>‘instruments of international traffic’</term> means containers or holders, capable of and suitable for repeated use, such as lift vans, cargo vans, shipping tanks, skids, pallets, caul boards, and cores for textile fabrics, arriving (whether loaded or empty) in use or to be used in the shipment of merchandise in international traffic, and any additional articles or classes of articles that the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection designates as instruments of international traffic.”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by subsection (a) take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply with respect to residue of bulk cargo contained in instruments of international traffic that are imported into the customs territory of the United States on or after such date of enactment and that previously have been exported from the United States.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="906">SEC. 906. </num><heading>DRAWBACK AND REFUNDS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Articles Made From Imported Merchandise</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/a">19 U.S.C. 1313(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the full amount of the duties paid upon the merchandise so used shall be refunded as drawback, less 1 per centum of such duties, except that such”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l) shall be refunded as drawback, except that”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Substitution for Drawback Purposes</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/b">19 U.S.C. 1313(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“If imported”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>If imported”</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and any other merchandise (whether imported or domestic) of the same kind and quality are”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“or merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise is”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“three years”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“5 years”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the receipt of such imported merchandise by the manufacturer or producer of such articles”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the date of importation of such imported merchandise”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an amount of drawback equal to”</quotedText> and all that follows through the end period and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l), but only if those articles have not been used prior to such exportation or destruction.”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requirements relating to transfer of merchandise</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Manufacturers and producers</inline>.—</heading><content>Drawback shall be allowed under paragraph (1) with respect to an article manufactured or produced using imported merchandise or other merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise only if the manufacturer or producer of the article received such imported merchandise or such other merchandise, directly or indirectly, from the importer.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exporters and destroyers</inline>.—</heading><content>Drawback shall be allowed under paragraph (1) with respect to a manufactured or produced article that is exported or destroyed only if the exporter or destroyer received that article, directly or indirectly, from the manufacturer or producer.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Evidence of transfer</inline>.—</heading><content>Transfers of merchandise under subparagraph (A) and transfers of articles under subparagraph (B) may be evidenced by business records kept in the normal course of business and no additional certificates of transfer or manufacture shall be required.</content>
|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Submission of bill of materials or formula</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Drawback shall be allowed under paragraph (1) with respect to an article manufactured or produced using imported merchandise or other merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise only if the person making the drawback claim submits with the claim a bill of materials or formula identifying the merchandise and article by the 8-digit HTS subheading number and the quantity of the merchandise.</content>
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||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Bill of materials and formula defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this paragraph, the terms ‘bill of materials’ and ‘formula’ mean records kept in the normal course of business that identify each component incorporated into a manufactured or produced article or that identify the quantity of each element, material, chemical, mixture, or other substance incorporated into a manufactured article.</content>
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|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special rule for sought chemical elements</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of paragraph (1), a sought chemical element may be—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> considered imported merchandise, or merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise, used in the manufacture or production of an article as described in paragraph (1); and</content>
|
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|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> substituted for source material containing that sought chemical element, without regard to whether the sought chemical element and the source material are classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number, and apportioned quantitatively, as appropriate.</content>
|
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|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sought chemical element defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this paragraph, the term <term>‘sought chemical element’</term> means an element listed in the Periodic Table of Elements that is imported into the United States or a chemical compound consisting of those elements, either separately in elemental form or contained in source material.”</content>
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|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Merchandise Not Conforming to Sample or Specifications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/c">19 U.S.C. 1313(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in paragraph (1)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> in subparagraph (C)(ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“under a certificate of delivery”</quotedText> each place it appears;</content>
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><chapeau> in subparagraph (D)—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“3”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“5”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
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|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> in the flush text at the end, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the full amount of the duties paid upon such merchandise, less 1 percent,”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l)”</quotedText>;</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in paragraph (2), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> paragraph (3) to read as follows:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Evidence of transfers</inline>.—</heading><content>Transfers of merchandise under paragraph (1) may be evidenced by business records kept in the normal course of business and no additional certificates of transfer shall be required.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</paragraph>
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</subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Proof of Exportation</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/i">19 U.S.C. 1313(i)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Proof of Exportation</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A person claiming drawback under this section based on the exportation of an article shall provide proof of the exportation of the article. Such proof of exportation—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> shall establish fully the date and fact of exportation and the identity of the exporter; and</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> may be established through the use of records kept in the normal course of business or through an electronic export system of the United States Government, as determined by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”</content>
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</subsection>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Unused Merchandise Drawback</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(j) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/j">19 U.S.C. 1313(j)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in paragraph (1)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding clause (i)—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“3-year”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“5-year”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</clause>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and before the drawback claim is filed”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“the date of importation”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</clause>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in the flush text at the end, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“99 percent of the amount of each duty, tax, or fee so paid”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l)”</quotedText>;</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> in paragraph (2)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“paragraph (4)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“paragraphs (4), (5), and (6)”</quotedText>;</content>
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</subparagraph>
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||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in subparagraph (A), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“commercially interchangeable with”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><chapeau> in subparagraph (B)—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“3-year”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“5-year”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</clause>
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||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and before the drawback claim is filed”</quotedText> after <quotedText>“the imported merchandise”</quotedText>;</content>
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||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
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||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> in subparagraph (C)(ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subclause (II) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> received the imported merchandise, other merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise, or any combination of such imported merchandise and such other merchandise, directly or indirectly from the person who imported and paid any duties, taxes, and fees imposed under Federal law upon importation or entry and due on the imported merchandise (and any such transferred merchandise, regardless of its origin, will be treated as the imported merchandise and any retained merchandise will be treated as domestic merchandise);”</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><chapeau> in the flush text at the end—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the amount of each such duty, tax, and fee”</quotedText> and all that follows through <quotedText>“99 percent of that duty, tax, or fee”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l) shall be refunded as drawback”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the last sentence and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: <quotedText>“Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), drawback shall be allowed under this paragraph with respect to wine if the imported wine and the exported wine are of the same color and the price variation between the imported wine and the exported wine does not exceed 50 percent. Transfers of merchandise may be evidenced by business records kept in the normal course of business and no additional certificates of transfer shall be required.”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> in paragraph (3)(B), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the commercially interchangeable merchandise”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><subparagraph role="definitions" class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> For purposes of paragraph (2) and except as provided in subparagraph (B), merchandise may not be substituted for imported merchandise for drawback purposes based on the 8-digit HTS subheading number if the article description for the 8-digit HTS subheading number under which the imported merchandise is classified begins with the term <term>‘other’</term>.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><chapeau> In cases described in subparagraph (A), merchandise may be substituted for imported merchandise for drawback purposes if—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> the other merchandise and such imported merchandise are classifiable under the same 10-digit HTS statistical reporting number; and</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> the article description for that 10-digit HTS statistical reporting number does not begin with the term <term>‘other’</term>.</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> “(6)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> For purposes of paragraph (2), a drawback claimant may use the first 8 digits of the 10-digit Schedule B number for merchandise or an article to determine if the merchandise or article is classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as the imported merchandise, without regard to whether the Schedule B number corresponds to more than one 8-digit HTS subheading number.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> In this paragraph, 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.”</content>
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Liability for Drawback Claims</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313(k) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/k">19 U.S.C. 1313(k)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="k"> “(k)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Liability for Drawback Claims</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Any person making a claim for drawback under this section shall be liable for the full amount of the drawback claimed.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Liability of importers</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An importer shall be liable for any drawback claim made by another person with respect to merchandise imported by the importer in an amount equal to the lesser of—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that the person claimed with respect to the imported merchandise; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that the importer authorized the other person to claim with respect to the imported merchandise.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Joint and several liability</inline>.—</heading><content>Persons described in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be jointly and severally liable for the amount described in paragraph (2).”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313(l) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/l">19 U.S.C. 1313(l)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="l"> “(l)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Regulations</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Allowance of the privileges provided for in this section shall be subject to compliance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Calculation of drawback</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the Secretary shall prescribe regulations for determining the calculation of amounts refunded as drawback under this section.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Claims with respect to unused merchandise</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The regulations required by subparagraph (A) for determining the calculation of amounts refunded as drawback under this section shall provide for a refund of equal to 99 percent of the duties, taxes, and fees paid on the imported merchandise, which were imposed under Federal law upon entry or importation of the imported merchandise, and may require the claim to be based upon the average per unit duties, taxes, and fees as reported on the entry summary line item or, if not reported on the entry summary line item, as otherwise allocated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, except that where there is substitution of the merchandise, then—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><chapeau> in the case of an article that is exported, the amount of the refund shall be equal to 99 percent of the lesser of—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees paid with respect to the imported merchandise; or</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that would apply to the exported article if the exported article were imported; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><chapeau> in the case of an article that is destroyed, the amount of the refund shall be an amount that is—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><chapeau> equal to 99 percent of the lesser of—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> “(aa)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees paid with respect to the imported merchandise; and</content>
|
||
</item>
|
||
<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> “(bb)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that would apply to the destroyed article if the destroyed article were imported; and</content>
|
||
</item>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> reduced by the value of materials recovered during destruction as provided in subsection (x).</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Claims with respect to manufactured articles into which imported or substitute merchandise is incorporated</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The regulations required by subparagraph (A) for determining the calculation of amounts refunded as drawback under this section shall provide for a refund of equal to 99 percent of the duties, taxes, and fees paid on the imported merchandise incorporated into an article that is exported or destroyed, which were imposed under Federal law upon entry or importation of the imported merchandise incorporated into an article that is exported or destroyed, and may require the claim to be based upon the average per unit duties, taxes, and fees as reported on the entry summary line item, or if not reported on the entry summary line item, as otherwise allocated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, except that where there is substitution of the imported merchandise, then—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><chapeau> in the case of an article that is exported, the amount of the refund shall be equal to 99 percent of the lesser of—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees paid with respect to the imported merchandise; or</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that would apply to the substituted merchandise if the substituted merchandise were imported; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><chapeau> in the case of an article that is destroyed, the amount of the refund shall be an amount that is—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><chapeau> equal to 99 percent of the lesser of—</chapeau><item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="aa"> “(aa)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees paid with respect to the imported merchandise; and</content>
|
||
</item>
|
||
<item style="-uslm-lc:I650130" class="indent5 fontsize10"><num value="bb"> “(bb)</num><content> the amount of duties, taxes, and fees that would apply to the substituted merchandise if the substituted merchandise were imported; and</content>
|
||
</item>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> reduced by the value of materials recovered during destruction as provided in subsection (x).</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The calculations set forth in subparagraphs (B) and (C) shall not apply to claims for wine based on subsection (j)(2) and claims based on subsection (p) and instead—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> for any drawback claim for wine based on subsection (j)(2), the amount of the refund shall be equal to 99 percent of the duties, taxes, and fees paid with respect to the imported merchandise, without regard to the limitations in subparagraphs (B)(i) and (B)(ii); and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> for any drawback claim based on subsection (p), the amount of the refund shall be subject to the limitations set out in paragraph (4) of that subsection and without regard to subparagraph (B)(i), (B)(ii), (C)(i), or (C)(ii).</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Status reports on regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, and annually thereafter until the regulations required by paragraph (2) are final, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the status of those regulations.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="h"> (h)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Substitution of Finished Petroleum Derivatives</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(p) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/p">19 U.S.C. 1313(p)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States”</quotedText> each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“HTS”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> in paragraph (3)(A)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> in clause (ii)(III), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, as so certified in a certificate of delivery or certificate of manufacture and delivery”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><chapeau> in the flush text at the end—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“, so designated on the certificate of delivery or certificate of manufacture and delivery”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the last sentence and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: <quotedText>“The party transferring the merchandise shall maintain records kept in the normal course of business to demonstrate the transfer.”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Packaging Material</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(q) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/q">19 U.S.C. 1313(q)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“of 99 percent of any duty, tax, or fee imposed under Federal law on such imported material”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“in an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l)”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in paragraph (2), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“of 99 percent of any duty, tax, or fee imposed under Federal law on the imported or substituted merchandise used to manufacture or produce such material”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“in an amount calculated pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (l)”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> in paragraph (3), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“they contain”</quotedText> each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“it contains”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="j"> (j)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Filing of Drawback Claims</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(r) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/r">19 U.S.C. 1313(r)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in paragraph (1)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the first sentence and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: <quotedText>“A drawback entry shall be filed or applied for, as applicable, not later than 5 years after the date on which merchandise on which drawback is claimed was imported.”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in the second sentence, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“3-year”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“5-year”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> in the third sentence, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> in paragraph (3)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> in subparagraph (A)—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> in the matter preceding clause (i), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“The Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> in clauses (i) and (ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Customs Service”</quotedText> each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> in clause (ii)(I), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“3-year”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“5-year”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in subparagraph (B), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the periods of time for retaining records set forth in subsection (t) of this section and”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the period of time for retaining records set forth in”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> “(4)</num><content> All drawback claims filed on and after the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 shall be filed electronically.”</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="k"> (k)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Designation of Merchandise by Successor</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 313(s) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/s">19 U.S.C. 1313(s)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in paragraph (2), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subparagraph (B) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> subject to paragraphs (5) and (6) of subsection (j), imported merchandise, other merchandise classifiable under the same 8-digit HTS subheading number as such imported merchandise, or any combination of such imported merchandise and such other merchandise, that the predecessor received, before the date of succession, from the person who imported and paid any duties, taxes, and fees due on the imported merchandise;”</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in paragraph (4), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“certifies that”</quotedText> and all that follows and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“certifies that the transferred merchandise was not and will not be claimed by the predecessor.”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="l"> (l)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Drawback Certificates</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313">19 U.S.C. 1313</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (t).</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="m"> (m)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Drawback for Recovered Materials</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313(x) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313/x">19 U.S.C. 1313(x)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and (c)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“(c), and (j)”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="n"> (n)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1313">19 U.S.C. 1313</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="z"> “(z)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Directly</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘directly’</term> means a transfer of merchandise or an article from one person to another person without any intermediate transfer.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">HTS</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘HTS’</term> means the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> “(3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Indirectly</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘indirectly’</term> means a transfer of merchandise or an article from one person to another person with one or more intermediate transfers.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="o"> (o)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Recordkeeping</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 508(c)(3) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1508/c/3">19 U.S.C. 1508(c)(3)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“payment”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“liquidation”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="p"> (p)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Government Accountability Office Report</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the issuance of the regulations required by subsection (l)(2) of section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by subsection (g) of this section, 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 on the modernization of drawback and refunds under section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by this section.</content>
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Contents</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The report required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> An assessment of the modernization of drawback and refunds under section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by this section.</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> A description of drawback claims that were permissible before the effective date provided for in subsection (q) that are not permissible after that effective date and an identification of industries most affected.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> A description of drawback claims that were not permissible before the effective date provided for in subsection (q) that are permissible after that effective date and an identification of industries most affected.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="q"> (q)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The amendments made by this section shall—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act; and</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> except as provided in paragraph (3), apply to drawback claims filed on or after the date that is 2 years after such date of enactment.</content>
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||
</subparagraph>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reporting of operability of automated commercial environment computer system</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not later than 2 years after such date of enactment, the Secretary of the Treasury 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—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> the date on which the Automated Commercial Environment will be ready to process drawback claims; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> the date on which the Automated Export System will be ready to accept proof of exportation under subsection (i) of section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by subsection (d) of this section.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Transition rule</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>During the one-year period beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, a person may elect to file a claim for drawback under—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by this section; or</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="907">SEC. 907. </num><heading>REPORT ON CERTAIN U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AGREEMENTS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than one year after entering into an agreement under a program specified in subsection (b), and annually thereafter until the termination of the program, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives a report that includes the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> A description of the development of the program, including an identification of the authority under which the program operates.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> A description of the type of entity with which U.S. Customs and Border Protection entered into the agreement and the amount that entity reimbursed U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> An identification of the type of port of entry to which the agreement relates and an assessment of how the agreement provides economic benefits and security benefits (if applicable) at the port of entry.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> A description of the services provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the agreement during the year preceding the submission of the report.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> The amount of fees collected under the agreement during that year.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> The total operating expenses of the program during that year.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> A detailed accounting of how the fees collected under the agreement have been spent during that year.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> A summary of any complaints or criticism received by U.S. Customs and Border Protection during that year regarding the agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><content> An assessment of the compliance of the entity described in paragraph (2) with the terms of the agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"> (10)</num><content> Recommendations with respect to how activities conducted pursuant to the agreement could function more effectively or better produce economic benefits and security benefits (if applicable).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"> (11)</num><content> A summary of the benefits to and challenges faced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the entity described in paragraph (2) under the agreement.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"> (12)</num><chapeau> If the entity described in paragraph (2) is an operator of an airport—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><chapeau> a detailed account of the revenue collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the airport from—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> fees collected under the agreement; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> fees collected from sources other than under the agreement, including fees paid by passengers and air carriers; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> an assessment of the revenue described in subparagraph (A) compared with the operating costs of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the airport.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Program Specified</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A program specified in this subsection is—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> the program for entering into reimbursable fee agreements for the provision of U.S. Customs and Border Protection services established by section 560 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013 (<ref href="/us/pl/113/6/dD">division D of Public Law 113–6</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/127/378">127 Stat. 378</ref>);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> the pilot program authorizing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to enter into partnerships with private sector and government entities at ports of entry established by section 559 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 (<ref href="/us/pl/113/76/dF">division F of Public Law 113–76</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t6/s211">6 U.S.C. 211 note</ref>);</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> the program under which U.S. Customs and Border Protection collects a fee for the use of customs services at designated facilities under section 236 of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58b">19 U.S.C. 58b</ref>); or</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> the program established by subtitle B of title VIII of this Act authorizing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to establish preclearance operations in foreign countries.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="908">SEC. 908. </num><heading>CHARTER FLIGHTS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 13031(e)(1) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/e/1">19 U.S.C. 58c(e)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“(1) Notwithstanding section 451 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1451">19 U.S.C. 1451</ref>) or any other provision of law (other than paragraph (2))”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> Notwithstanding section 451 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1451">19 U.S.C. 1451</ref>) or any other provision of law (other than subparagraph (B) and paragraph (2))”</content>
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><clause class="inline"><num value="i">(i)</num><chapeau> An appropriate officer of U.S. Customs and Border Protection may assign a sufficient number of employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (if available) to perform services described in clause (ii) for a charter air carrier (as defined in <ref href="/us/usc/t49/s40102">section 40102 of title 49, United States Code</ref>) for a charter flight arriving after normal operating hours at an airport that is an established port of entry serviced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, notwithstanding that overtime funds for those services are not available, if the charter air carrier—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> not later than 4 hours before the flight arrives, specifically requests that such services be provided; and</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> pays any overtime fees incurred in connection with such services.</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> Services described in this clause are customs services for passengers and their baggage or any other similar service that could lawfully be performed during regular hours of operation.”</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="909">SEC. 909. </num><heading>UNITED STATES-ISRAEL TRADE AND COMMERCIAL ENHANCEMENT.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress finds the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> Israel is America’s dependable, democratic ally in the Middle East—an area of paramount strategic importance to the United States.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> The United States-Israel Free Trade Agreement formed the modern foundation of the bilateral commercial relationship between the two countries and was the first such agreement signed by the United States with a foreign country.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> The United States-Israel Free Trade Agreement has been instrumental in expanding commerce and the strategic relationship between the United States and Israel.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> More than $45,000,000,000 in goods and services is traded annually between the two countries, in addition to roughly $10,000,000,000 in United States foreign direct investment in Israel.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> The United States continues to look for and find new opportunities to enhance cooperation with Israel, including through the enactment of the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (<ref href="/us/pl/112/150">Public Law 112–150</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t22/s8601/etseq">22 U.S.C. 8601 et seq.</ref>) and the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014 (<ref href="/us/pl/113/296">Public Law 113–296</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/128/4075">128 Stat. 4075</ref>).</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><chapeau> It has been the policy of the United States Government to combat all elements of the Arab League Boycott of Israel by—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> public statements of Administration officials;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> enactment of relevant sections of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (<ref href="/us/usc/t50/s4601/etseq">50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.</ref>) (as continued in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t50/s1701/etseq">50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</ref>)), including sections to ensure foreign persons comply with applicable reporting requirements relating to the Boycott;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 (<ref href="/us/pl/94/455">Public Law 94–455</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/90/1520">90 Stat. 1520</ref>) that denies certain tax benefits to entities abiding by the Boycott;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> ensuring through free trade agreements with Bahrain and Oman that such countries no longer participate in the Boycott; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> ensuring as a condition of membership in the World Trade Organization that Saudi Arabia no longer enforces the secondary or tertiary elements of the Boycott.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Statements of Policy</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> supports the strengthening of economic cooperation between the United States and Israel and recognizes the tremendous strategic, economic, and technological value of cooperation with Israel;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> recognizes the benefit of cooperation with Israel to United States companies, including by improving American competitiveness in global markets;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> recognizes the importance of trade and commercial relations to the pursuit and sustainability of peace, and supports efforts to bring together the United States, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and others in enhanced commerce;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> opposes politically motivated actions that penalize or otherwise limit commercial relations specifically with Israel, such as boycotts of, divestment from, or sanctions against Israel;</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> notes that boycotts of, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel by governments, governmental bodies, quasi-governmental bodies, international organizations, and other such entities are contrary to principle of nondiscrimination under the GATT 1994 (as defined in section 2(1)(B) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3501/1/B">19 U.S.C. 3501(1)(B)</ref>));</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> encourages the inclusion of politically motivated actions that penalize or otherwise limit commercial relations specifically with Israel such as boycotts of, divestment from, or sanctions against Israel as a topic of discussion at the U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) to support the strengthening of the United States-Israel commercial relationship and combat any commercial discrimination against Israel; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> supports efforts to prevent investigations or prosecutions by governments or international organizations of United States persons solely on the basis of such persons doing business with Israel, with Israeli entities, or in any territory controlled by Israel.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Principal Trade Negotiating Objectives of the United States</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Commercial partnerships</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Among the principal trade negotiating objectives of the United States for proposed trade agreements with foreign countries regarding commercial partnerships are the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> To discourage actions by potential trading partners that directly or indirectly prejudice or otherwise discourage commercial activity solely between the United States and Israel.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> To discourage politically motivated boycotts of, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel and to seek the elimination of politically motivated nontariff barriers on Israeli goods, services, or other commerce imposed on Israel.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> To seek the elimination of state-sponsored unsanctioned foreign boycotts of Israel, or compliance with the Arab League Boycott of Israel, by prospective trading partners.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>This subsection takes effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with respect to negotiations commenced before, on, or after such date of enactment.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report on Politically Motivated Acts of Boycott of, Divestment From, and Sanctions Against Israel</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President shall submit to Congress a report on politically motivated boycotts of, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Matters to be included</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The report required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> A description of the establishment of barriers to trade, including nontariff barriers, investment, or commerce by foreign countries or international organizations against United States persons operating or doing business in Israel, with Israeli entities, or in Israeli-controlled territories.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> A description of specific steps being taken by the United States to encourage foreign countries and international organizations to cease creating such barriers and to dismantle measures already in place, and an assessment of the effectiveness of such steps.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> A description of specific steps being taken by the United States to prevent investigations or prosecutions by governments or international organizations of United States persons solely on the basis of such persons doing business with Israel, with Israeli entities, or in Israeli-controlled territories.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> Decisions by foreign persons, including corporate entities and state-affiliated financial institutions, that limit or prohibit economic relations with Israel or persons doing business in Israel or in any territory controlled by Israel.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Certain Foreign Judgments Against United States Persons</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no domestic court shall recognize or enforce any foreign judgment entered against a United States person that conducts business operations in Israel, or any territory controlled by Israel, if the domestic court determines that the foreign judgment is based, in whole or in part, on a determination by a foreign court that the United States person’s conducting business operations in Israel or any territory controlled by Israel or with Israeli entities constitutes a violation of law.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section:</chapeau><paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Boycott of, divestment from, and sanctions against israel</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“boycott of, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel”</term> means actions by states, nonmember states of the United Nations, international organizations, or affiliated agencies of international organizations that are politically motivated and are intended to penalize or otherwise limit commercial relations specifically with Israel or persons doing business in Israel or in any territory controlled by Israel.</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Domestic court</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“domestic court”</term> means a Federal court of the United States, or a court of any State or territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Foreign court</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“foreign court”</term> means a court, an administrative body, or other tribunal of a foreign country.</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Foreign judgment</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“foreign judgment”</term> means a final civil judgment rendered by a foreign court.</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Foreign person</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“foreign person”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> an individual who is not a United States person or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the United States; or</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a corporation, partnership, or other nongovernmental entity which is not a United States person.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Person</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“person”</term> means—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> a natural person;</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> a corporation, business association, partnership, society, trust, financial institution, insurer, underwriter, guarantor, and any other business organization, any other nongovernmental entity, organization, or group, and any governmental entity operating as a business enterprise; and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> (iii)</num><content> any successor to any entity described in clause (ii).</content>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Application to governmental entities</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>“person”</term> does not include a government or governmental entity that is not operating as a business enterprise.</content>
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<paragraph role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">United states person</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>“United States person”</term> means—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> a natural person who is a national of the United States (as defined in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1101/a/22">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)</ref>)); or</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> a corporation or other legal entity that is organized under the laws of the United States, any State or territory thereof, or the District of Columbia, if natural persons described in subparagraph (A) own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 percent of the outstanding capital stock or other beneficial interest in such legal entity.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="910">SEC. 910. </num><heading>ELIMINATION OF CONSUMPTIVE DEMAND EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF GOODS MADE WITH CONVICT LABOR, FORCED LABOR, OR INDENTURED LABOR; REPORT.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Elimination of Consumptive Demand Exception</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1307">19 U.S.C. 1307</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“The provisions of this section”</quotedText> and all that follows through <quotedText>“of the United States.”</quotedText>.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date that is 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report Required</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 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 compliance with section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1307">19 U.S.C. 1307</ref>) that includes the following:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> The number of instances in which merchandise was denied entry pursuant to that section during the 1-year period preceding the submission of the report.</content>
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> A description of the merchandise denied entry pursuant to that section.</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> Such other information as the Commissioner considers appropriate with respect to monitoring and enforcing compliance with that section.</content>
|
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||
</subsection>
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||
</section>
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||
<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="911">SEC. 911. </num><heading>VOLUNTARY RELIQUIDATIONS BY U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.</heading>
|
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<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 501 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1501">19 U.S.C. 1501</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in the section heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the customs service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“u.s. customs and border protection”</quotedText>;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“the Customs Service”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“U.S. Customs and Border Protection”</quotedText>; and</content>
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“on which notice of the original liquidation is given or transmitted to the importer, his consignee or agent”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“of the original liquidation”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
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|
||
</section>
|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="912">SEC. 912. </num><heading>TARIFF CLASSIFICATION OF RECREATIONAL PERFORMANCE OUTERWEAR.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Repeal</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 601 of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/27">Public Law 114–27</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/387">129 Stat. 387</ref>) is <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>, and any provision of law amended by such section is restored as if such section had not been enacted into law.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Amendments to Additional U.S. Notes</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The additional U.S. notes to chapter 62 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States are amended—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in additional U.S. note 2—</chapeau><subparagraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“For the purposes of subheadings”</quotedText> and all that follows through <quotedText>“6211.20.15”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“For the purposes of subheadings 6201.92.17, 6201.92.35, 6201.93.47, 6201.93.60, 6202.92.05, 6202.92.30, 6202.93.07, 6202.93.48, 6203.41.01, 6203.41.25, 6203.43.03, 6203.43.11, 6203.43.55, 6203.43.75, 6204.61.05, 6204.61.60, 6204.63.02, 6204.63.09, 6204.63.55, 6204.63.75 and 6211.20.15”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“(see ASTM designations D 3600-81 and D 3781-79)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“(see current version of ASTM D7017)”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“in accordance with AATCC Test Method 35-1985.”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“in accordance with the current version of AATCC Test Method 35.”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new note:<quotedContent><section style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num value="3"> “3.</num><subsection role="definitions" class="inline"><num value="a"> (a)</num><chapeau> When used in a subheading of this chapter or immediate superior text thereto, the term <term>‘recreational performance outerwear’</term> means trousers (including, but not limited to, ski or snowboard pants, and ski or snowboard pants intended for sale as parts of ski-suits), coveralls, bib and brace overalls, jackets (including, but not limited to, full zip jackets, ski jackets and ski jackets intended for sale as parts of ski-suits), windbreakers and similar articles (including padded, sleeveless jackets), the foregoing of fabrics of cotton, wool, hemp, bamboo, silk or manmade fibers, or a combination of such fibers; that are either water resistant within the meaning of additional U.S. note 2 to this chapter or treated with plastics, or both; with critically sealed seams, and with 5 or more of the following features (as further provided herein):</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> insulation for cold weather protection;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> pockets, at least one of which has a zippered, hook and loop, or other type of closure;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><content> elastic, draw cord or other means of tightening around the waist or leg hems, including hidden leg sleeves with a means of tightening at the ankle for trousers and tightening around the waist or bottom hem for jackets;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> venting, not including grommet(s);</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> articulated elbows or knees;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="vi"> “(vi)</num><content> reinforcement in one of the following areas: the elbows, shoulders, seat, knees, ankles or cuffs;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="vii"> “(vii)</num><content> weatherproof closure at the waist or front;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="viii"> “(viii)</num><content> multi-adjustable hood or adjustable collar;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="ix"> “(ix)</num><content> adjustable powder skirt, inner protective skirt or adjustable inner protective cuff at sleeve hem;</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="x"> “(x)</num><content> construction at the arm gusset that utilizes fabric, design or patterning to allow radial arm movement; or</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="xi"> “(xi)</num><content> odor control technology.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<continuation style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10">The term <term>‘recreational performance outerwear’</term> does not include occupational outerwear.</continuation>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> “(b)</num><chapeau> For purposes of this note, the following terms have the following meanings:</chapeau><clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> The term <term>‘treated with plastics’</term> refers to textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, as described in note 2 to chapter 59.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> The term <term>‘sealed seams’</term> means seams that have been covered by means of taping, gluing, bonding, cementing, fusing, welding or a similar process so that air and water cannot pass through the seams when tested in accordance with the current version of AATCC Test Method 35.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><chapeau> The term <term>‘critically sealed seams’</term> means—</chapeau><level style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> for jackets, windbreakers and similar articles (including padded, sleeveless jackets), sealed seams that are sealed at the front and back yokes, or at the shoulders, arm holes, or both, where applicable; and</content>
|
||
</level>
|
||
<level style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> for trousers, overalls and bib and brace overalls and similar articles, sealed seams that are sealed at the front (up to the zipper or other means of closure) and back rise.</content>
|
||
</level>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><content> The term <term>‘insulation for cold weather protection’</term> means insulation that meets a minimum clo value of 1.5 per ASTM F 2732.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="v"> “(v)</num><content> The term <term>‘venting’</term> refers to closeable or permanent constructed openings in a garment (excluding front, primary zipper closures and grommet(s)) to allow increased expulsion of built-up heat during outdoor activities. In a jacket, such openings are often positioned on the underarm seam of a garment but may also be placed along other seams in the front or back of a garment. In trousers, such openings are often positioned on the inner or outer leg seams of a garment but may also be placed along other seams in the front or back of a garment.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="vi"> “(vi)</num><content> The term <term>‘articulated elbows or knees’</term> refers to the construction of a sleeve (or pant leg) to allow improved mobility at the elbow (or knee) through the use of extra seams, darts, gussets or other means.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="vii"> “(vii)</num><content> The term <term>‘reinforcement’</term> refers to the use of a double layer of fabric or section(s) of fabric that is abrasion-resistant or otherwise more durable than the face fabric of the garment.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="viii"> “(viii)</num><content> The term <term>‘weatherproof closure’</term> means a closure (including, but not limited to, laminated or coated zippers, storm flaps or other weatherproof construction) that has been reinforced or engineered in a manner to reduce the penetration or absorption of moisture or air through an opening in the garment.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="ix"> “(ix)</num><content> The term <term>‘multi-adjustable hood or adjustable collar’</term> means, in the case of a hood, a hood into which is incorporated two or more draw cords, adjustment tabs or elastics, or, in the case of a collar, a collar into which is incorporated at least one draw cord, adjustment tab, elastic or similar component, to allow volume adjustments around a helmet, or the crown of the head, neck or face.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="x"> “(x)</num><content> The terms ‘adjustable powder skirt’ and ‘inner protective skirt’ refer to a partial lower inner lining with means of tightening around the waist for additional protection from the elements.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="xi"> “(xi)</num><content> The term <term>‘arm gusset’</term> means construction at the arm of a gusset that utilizes an extra fabric piece in the underarm, usually diamond- or triangular-shaped, designed or patterned to allow radial arm movement.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="xii"> “(xii)</num><content> The term <term>‘radial arm movement’</term> refers to unrestricted, 180-degree range of motion for the arm while wearing performance outerwear.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="xiii"> “(xiii)</num><content> The term <term>‘odor control technology’</term> means the incorporation into a fabric or garment of materials, including, but not limited to, activated carbon, silver, copper or any combination thereof, capable of adsorbing, absorbing or reacting with human odors, or effective in reducing the growth of odor-causing bacteria.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="xiv"> “(xiv)</num><content> The term <term>‘occupational outerwear’</term> means outerwear garments, including uniforms, of a kind principally used in the work place and specially designed to provide protection from work place hazards such as fire, electrical, abrasion or chemical hazards, or impacts, cuts and punctures.</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><content> The importer of goods entered as ‘recreational performance outerwear’ under a particular subheading of this chapter shall maintain records demonstrating that the entered goods meet the terms of this note, including such information as is necessary to demonstrate the presence of the specific features that render the goods eligible for classification as ‘recreational performance outerwear’.”</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</quotedContent>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Tariff Classifications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Chapter 62 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> as follows:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6201.91.10 through 6201.91.20 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6201.91.03 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6201.91.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls10,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls60,2'; ">
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|
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|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:14.0pt ; max-width:14.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 189.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.91.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG) 2.5% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.91.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">49.7¢/kg + 19.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG) 14.9¢/kg +5.9% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.91.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG) 2.5% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"> 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.91.40</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">49.7¢/kg + 19.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG) 14.9¢/kg +5.9% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6201.91.10 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6201.91.03 and 6201.91.25 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6201.91.20 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6201.91.05 and 6201.91.40 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6201.92.10 through 6201.92.20 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6201.92.05 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6201.92.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.92.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.92.17</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.92.19</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">9.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.92.30</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.92.35</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.92.45</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">9.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6201.93.10 through 6201.93.35 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6201.93.15 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6201.93.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls60,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 191.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.18</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.45</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">49.5¢/kg + 19.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.47</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.49</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.52</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.55</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">49.5¢/kg + 19.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.93.65</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6201.99.10 through 6201.99.90 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6201.99.05 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6201.99.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls47,2'; ">
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|
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|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 204.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:51.0pt ; max-width:51.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.99.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.99.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.99.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6201.99.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6202.91.10 through 6202.91.20 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6202.91.03 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6202.91.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r50,xls45,xls58,xls60,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 183.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:62.0pt ; max-width:62.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.91.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG) 4.2% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.91.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">36¢/kg + 16.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,CO,IL,JO,KR, MA,MX,P, PA,PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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10.8¢/kg + 4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">46.3¢/kg +58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.91.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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4.2% (OM) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.91.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">36¢/kg + 16.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG) <br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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10.8¢/kg + 4.8% (OM) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">46.3¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6202.91.10 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6202.91.03 and 6202.91.60 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6202.91.20 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6202.91.15 and 6202.91.90 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6202.92.10 through 6202.92.20 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6202.92.03 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6202.92.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls58,xls45,2'; ">
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 198.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:62.0pt ; max-width:62.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.92.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.92.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.92.12</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.92.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.92.30</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.92.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"> (7)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6202.93.10 through 6202.93.50 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6202.93.01 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6202.93.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls60,2'; ">
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<tr class="header" style="font-size:0pt; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:h1;">
|
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|
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|
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|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 191.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.01</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">43.4¢/kg + 19.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">46.3¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.07</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.09</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">4.4%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Padded, sleeveless jackets</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.45</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">43.4¢/kg + 19.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">46.3¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.48</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.93.55</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"> (8)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6202.99.10 through 6202.99.90 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6202.99.03 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6202.99.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls58,xls45,2'; ">
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|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 198.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:62.0pt ; max-width:62.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.99.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.99.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA,MX, OM, P, PA, PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.99.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6202.99.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"> (9)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6203.41 through 6203.41.20 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the article description for subheading 6203.41 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6203.41 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls60,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41</td><td style="min-width: 191.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Of wool or fine animal hair:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3"> Trousers, breeches and shorts:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.01</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Trousers, breeches, containing elastomeric fiber, water resistant, without belt loops, weighing more than 9 kg per dozen</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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2.2% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Trousers of worsted wool fabric, made of wool yarn having an average fiber diameter of 18.5 microns or less</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">41.9¢/kg + 16.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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12.5¢/kg + 4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg +58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.06</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">41.9¢/kg + 16.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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12.5¢/kg + 4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.08</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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2.5% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">63%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Trousers, breeches and shorts:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Trousers and breeches, containing elastomeric fiber, water resistant, without belt loops, weighing more than 9 kg per dozen</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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2.2% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg +58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.30</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Trousers of worsted wool fabric, made of wool yarn having an average fiber diameter of 18.5 microns or less</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">41.9¢/kg +16.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
12.5¢/kg + 4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg +58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">41.9¢/kg +16.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
12.5¢/kg + 4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg +58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.41.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
2.5% (OM) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">63%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.41.05 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.41.01 and 6203.41.25 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.41.12 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.41.03 and 6203.41.30 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.41.18 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.41.06 and 6203.41.60 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="E"> (E)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.41.20 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.41.08 and 6203.41.80 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"> (10)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6203.42.10 through 6203.42.40 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6203.42.03 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6203.42.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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|
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<col style="width:49pt ; max-width:49pt;"/>
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<col style="width:54pt ; max-width:54pt;"/>
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<col style="width:49pt ; max-width:49pt;"/>
|
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|
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|
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<thead>
|
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|
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|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.42.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.42.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">10.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA,MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.42.07</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO, MA,MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
9.9% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.42.17</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.42.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">10.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA,MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.42.45</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO, MA, MX, OM, P, PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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9.9% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.42.40 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.42.07 and 6203.42.45 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"> (11)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6203.43.10 through 6203.43.40 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6203.43.01 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6203.43.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls60,xls40,xls8R'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 200.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.01</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA,MX,OM, P, PA,PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" textHierarchy="2"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.09</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">49.6¢/kg + 19.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.11</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant trousers or breeches</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
1.4% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.13</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
5.5% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.45</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.55</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO,IL,JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.65</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Certified hand-loomed and folklore products</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">12.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.70</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">49.6¢/kg + 19.7%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">52.9¢/kg + 58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="5">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.75</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="6">Water resistant trousers or breeches</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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1.4% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;"/></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.43.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="6">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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5.5% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.43.35 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.43.11 and 6203.43.75 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.43.40 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.43.13 and 6203.43.90 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 196.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:64.0pt ; max-width:64.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of artificial fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.01</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Trousers, breeches and shorts</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P,PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Of other textile materials:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.07</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.09</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO,MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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0.5% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of artificial fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Trousers, breeches and shorts:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.35</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Certified hand-loomed and folklore products</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">12.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P,PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">27.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX,OM, P,PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Of other textile materials:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6203.49.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO,MA, MX,OM, P,PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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0.5% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6203.49.80 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6203.49.09 and 6203.49.90 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"> (13)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6204.61.10 through 6204.61.90 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6204.61.05 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6204.61.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.61.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Trousers and breeches, containing elastomeric fiber, water resistant, without belt loops, weighing more than 6 kg per dozen</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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2.2% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.61.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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4% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.61.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Trousers and breeches, containing elastomeric fiber, water resistant, without belt loops, weighing more than 6 kg per dozen</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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2.2% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.61.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL, CO, IL,JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
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4% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6204.61.10 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6204.61.05 and 6204.61.60 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6204.61.90 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6204.61.15 and 6204.61.80 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"> (14)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6204.62.10 through 6204.62.40 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6204.62.03 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6204.62.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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9.9% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.70</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Certified hand-loomed and folklore products</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, E, IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.62.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
9.9% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6204.62.40 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6204.62.15 and 6204.62.80 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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|
||
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"> (15)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6204.63.10 through 6204.63.35 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the superior text to subheading 6204.63.01 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6204.63.10 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r55,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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<tr class="header" style="font-size:0pt; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:h1;">
|
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|
||
</tr>
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|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.01</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.02</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.08</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX,OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.09</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant trousers or breeches</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX,OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.11</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">28.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,CO, IL,JO, MA,MX,OM,P, PA,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
5.7% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more by weight of down</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">60%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.55</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Water resistant</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">14.9%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.65</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Certified hand-loomed and folklore products</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">11.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO,KR, MA,MX,OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="3">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.70</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="4">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.75</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Water resistant trousers or breeches</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.63.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="5">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">28.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
5.7% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6204.63.35 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6204.63.11 and 6204.63.90 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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</subparagraph>
|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"> (16)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6204.69.10 through 6204.69.90 and the immediate superior text to subheading 6204.69.10, and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the first superior text having the same degree of indentation as the article description of subheading 6204.69.10 (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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|
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|
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<col style="width:44pt ; max-width:44pt;"/>
|
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<col style="min-width: 206pt;"/>
|
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<col style="width:49pt ; max-width:49pt;"/>
|
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<col style="width:54pt ; max-width:54pt;"/>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<thead>
|
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<tr class="header" style="font-size:0pt; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:h1;">
|
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|
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|
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</thead>
|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of artificial fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.01</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Trousers, breeches and shorts:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.02</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">28.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of silk or silk waste:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.04</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">1.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, E*, IL, JO, KR,MA,MX, OM, P,PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.06</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of artificial fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Bib and brace overalls</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Trousers, breeches and shorts:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.22</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">13.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.28</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="4">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">28.6%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, IL, JO,KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of silk or silk waste:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.45</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">1.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P,PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.65</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, E*,IL, JO, KR,MA,MX, OM, P,PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6204.69.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU,BH, CA, CL,CO, E*, IL, JO, KR,MA,MX, OM, P,PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of man-made fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO,IL, JO,KR, MA,MX, OM,P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.28</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.29</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of man-made fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.35</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.55</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.75</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.40.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"> (18)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6210.50.30 through 6210.50.90 and the immediate superior text to subheading 6210.50.30, and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the first superior text having the same degree of indentation as the immediate superior text to subheading 6210.50.30 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of man-made fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM,P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM,P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.12</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.22</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P,PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Of man-made fibers:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.35</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM,P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.55</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM,P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">65%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no" textHierarchy="2">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.75</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Having an outer surface impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or plastics material which completely obscures the underlying fabric</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">3.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6210.50.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="3">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">37.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"> (19)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheading 6211.32.00 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the article description for subheading 6211.32 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6211.32.00 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.32</td><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Of cotton:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.32.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Recreational performance outerwear</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.32.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"> (20)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheading 6211.33.00 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the article description for subheading 6211.33 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6211.33.00 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.33</td><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Of man-made fibers:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.33.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Recreational performance outerwear</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA ,PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.33.90</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">76%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6211.33.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6211.33.50 and 6211.33.90 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="21"> (21)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6211.39.05 through 6211.39.90 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the first superior text having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6211.39.05 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
|
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<colgroup>
|
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<col style="width:12pt ; max-width:12pt;"/>
|
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<col style="width:44pt ; max-width:44pt;"/>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<tbody style="line-height:9pt; font-size:7pt;">
|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.39.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">12%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
3.6% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.39.07</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">0.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.39.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.39.30</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">12%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
3.6% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.39.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">0.5%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.39.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">2.8%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E*, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PE, SG) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6211.39.05 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6211.39.03 and 6211.39.30 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"> (22)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheading 6211.42.00 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the article description for subheading 6211.42 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6211.42.00 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
|
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|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.42</td><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Of cotton:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.42.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Recreational performance outerwear</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.42.10</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">8.1%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"> (23)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheading 6211.43.00 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the article description for subheading 6211.43 having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6211.43.00 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.43</td><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Of man-made fibers:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.43.05</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Recreational performance outerwear</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.43.10</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">16%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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4.8% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">90%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6211.43.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6211.43.05 and 6211.43.10 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="24"> (24)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> By <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subheadings 6211.49.10 through 6211.49.90 and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following, with the first superior text having the same degree of indentation as the article description for subheading 6211.49.90 (as in effect on the day before the effective date of this section):<?GPOvSpace 04?><quotedContent><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="Quoted" width="100%" blockStyle="yes" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-bottom:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc: 'c7,L2(0,0,0,4,4,17),tp0,p0,7/9,g1,t1,bl,xls8,xls40,r60,xls45,xls50,xls45,2'; ">
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<tr style="border-top:0.0pt solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style="width:12.0pt ; max-width:12.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1">“</td><td style="width:44.0pt ; max-width:44.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="min-width: 206.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Recreational performance outerwear:</td><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:54.0pt ; max-width:54.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:49.0pt ; max-width:49.0pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style="width:11.0pt ; max-width:11.0pt; text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
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<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.49.03</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">1.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA,PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.49.15</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">12%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA ,MX, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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3.6% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.49.25</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
1.4% (KR)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">Other:</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"/><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.49.50</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">1.2%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, OM, P, PA, PE, SG)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.49.60</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Of wool or fine animal hair</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">12%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, IL, JO, KR, MA, MX, P, PA, PE,SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
||
3.6% (OM)</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">58.5%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no"> </td></tr>
|
||
<tr style="-uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black;" stubHierarchy="1"/><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">6211.49.80</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="yes" leaderAlign="bottomLine" textHierarchy="2">Other</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">7.3%</td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, CO, E, IL, JO, MA, MX,OM, P, PA, PE, SG)<br xmlns="http://schemas.gpo.gov/xml/uslm"/>
|
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1.4% (KR) </td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;">35%</td><td style=" text-align:right; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black;" leaders="no">”.</td></tr>
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6211.49.41 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6211.49.15 and 6211.49.60 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
||
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> The staged reductions in the special rate of duty proclaimed for subheading 6211.49.90 of such Schedule before the effective date of this section shall apply to subheadings 6211.49.25 and 6211.49.80 of such Schedule, as added by subparagraph (A), on and after such effective date.</content>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided in paragraph (2), this section and the amendments made by this section—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> shall take effect on the 180th day after the date of the enactment of this Act; and</content>
|
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> shall apply to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after such 180th day.</content>
|
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|
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Subsection </inline>(a).—</heading><content>Subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
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|
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|
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|
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="913">SEC. 913. </num><heading>MODIFICATIONS TO DUTY TREATMENT OF PROTECTIVE ACTIVE FOOTWEAR.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Chapter 64 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> the Additional U.S. Note added by section 602(a) of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/27">Public Law 114–27</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/413">129 Stat. 413</ref>) as Additional U.S. Note 6;</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in subheading 6402.91.42, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the matter in the column 1 special rate of duty column and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: <quotedText>“Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, D, IL, JO, MA, MX, P, R, SG) 1%(PA) 6%(OM) 6%(PE) 12%(CO) 20%(KR)”</quotedText>; and</content>
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|
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> in subheading 6402.99.32, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the matter in the column 1 special rate of duty column and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: <quotedText>“Free (AU, BH, CA, CL, D, IL, JO, MA, MX, P, R, SG) 1%(PA) 6%(OM) 6%(PE) 12%(CO) 20%(KR)”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Staged Rate Reductions</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 602(c) of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/27">Public Law 114–27</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/414">129 Stat. 414</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Staged Rate Reductions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Beginning in calendar year 2016, the staged reductions in special rates of duty proclaimed before the date of the enactment of this Act—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> “(1)</num><content> for subheading 6402.91.90 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States shall be applied to subheading 6402.91.42 of such Schedule, as added by subsection (b)(1); and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> “(2)</num><content> for subheading 6402.99.90 of such Schedule shall be applied to subheading 6402.99.32 of such Schedule, as added by subsection (b)(2).”</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/27">Public Law 114–27</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/362">129 Stat. 362</ref>).</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Retroactive application for certain liquidations and reliquidations</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1514">19 U.S.C. 1514</ref>) or any other provision of law and subject to subparagraph (B), any entry of an article classified under subheading 6402.91.42 or 6402.99.32 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, that—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><chapeau> was made—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> (I)</num><content> after the effective date specified in section 602(d) of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/27">Public Law 114–27</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/414">129 Stat. 414</ref>), and</content>
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><content> before the date of the enactment of this Act, and</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> to which a lower rate of duty would be applicable if the entry were made after such date of enactment,</content>
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<continuation style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10">shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry occurred on such date of enactment.</continuation>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Requests</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A liquidation or reliquidation may be made under subparagraph (A) with respect to an entry only if a request therefor is filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act that contains sufficient information to enable U.S. Customs and Border Protection—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> to locate the entry; or</content>
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> to reconstruct the entry if it cannot be located.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Payment of amounts owed</inline>.—</heading><content>Any amounts owed by the United States pursuant to the liquidation or reliquidation of an entry of an article under subparagraph (A) shall be paid, without interest, not later than 90 days after the date of the liquidation or reliquidation (as the case may be).</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="914">SEC. 914. </num><heading>AMENDMENTS TO BIPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL TRADE PRIORITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2015.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Immigration Laws of the United States</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 102(a) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4201/a">19 U.S.C. 4201(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in paragraph (12), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in paragraph (13), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; and”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"> “(14)</num><content> to ensure that trade agreements do not require changes to the immigration laws of the United States or obligate the United States to grant access or expand access to visas issued under section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1101/a/15">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)</ref>).”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measures</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 102(a) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4201/a">19 U.S.C. 4201(a)</ref>), as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is further amended—</chapeau><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in paragraph (13), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end;</content>
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<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in paragraph (14), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; and”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"> “(15)</num><content> to ensure that trade agreements do not establish obligations for the United States regarding greenhouse gas emissions measures, including obligations that require changes to United States laws or regulations or that would affect the implementation of such laws or regulations, other than those fulfilling the other negotiating objectives in this section.”</content>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Fisheries Negotiations</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 102(b) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4201/b">19 U.S.C. 4201(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"> “(22)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Fisheries negotiations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The principal negotiating objectives of the United States with respect to trade in fish, seafood, and shellfish products are—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> “(A)</num><content> to obtain competitive opportunities for United States exports of fish, seafood, and shellfish products in foreign markets substantially equivalent to the competitive opportunities afforded foreign exports of fish, seafood, and shellfish products in United States markets and to achieve fairer and more open conditions of trade in fish, seafood, and shellfish products, including by reducing or eliminating tariff and nontariff barriers;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> to eliminate fisheries subsidies that distort trade, including subsidies of the type referred to in paragraph 9 of Annex D to the Ministerial Declaration adopted by the World Trade Organization at the Sixth Ministerial Conference at Hong Kong, China on December 18, 2005;</content>
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|
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><content> to pursue transparency in fisheries subsidies programs; and</content>
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||
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><content> to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.”</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</paragraph>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Accreditation</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 104 of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4203">19 U.S.C. 4203</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in subsection (b)(3), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an official”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“a delegate and official”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><chapeau> in subsection (c)(2)(C)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“an official”</quotedText> each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“a delegate and official”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the first sentence the following: <quotedText>“In addition, the chairmen and ranking members described in subparagraphs (A)(i) and (B)(i) shall each be permitted to designate up to 3 personnel with proper security clearances to serve as delegates and official advisers to the United States delegation in negotiations for any trade agreement to which this title applies.”</quotedText>.</content>
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trafficking in Persons</inline>.—</heading><paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 106(b)(6) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4205/b/6">19 U.S.C. 4205(b)(6)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subparagraph (B) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Invoking exception</inline>.—</heading><content>If the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees a letter stating that a country to which subparagraph (A) applies has taken concrete actions to implement the principal recommendations with respect to that country in the most recent annual report on trafficking in persons, the prohibition under subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to a trade agreement or trade agreements with that country.</content>
|
||
</clause>
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||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Content of letter; public availability</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A letter submitted under clause (i) with respect to a country shall—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> include a description of the concrete actions that the country has taken to implement the principal recommendations described in clause (i);</content>
|
||
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||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> be accompanied by supporting documentation providing credible evidence of each such concrete action, including copies of relevant laws or regulations adopted or modified, and any enforcement actions taken, by that country, where appropriate; and</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="III"> “(III)</num><content> be made available to the public.</content>
|
||
</subclause>
|
||
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> “(C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Special rule for changes in certain determinations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If a country is listed as a tier 3 country in an annual report on trafficking in persons submitted in calendar year 2014 or any calendar year thereafter and, in the annual report on trafficking in persons submitted in the next calendar year, is listed on the tier 2 watch list, the President shall submit a detailed description of the credible evidence supporting the change in listing of the country, accompanied by copies of documents providing such evidence, where appropriate, to the appropriate congressional committees—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><content> in the case of a change in listing reflected in the annual report on trafficking in persons submitted in calendar year 2015, not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015; and</content>
|
||
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||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><content> in the case of a change in listing reflected in an annual report on trafficking in persons submitted in calendar year 2016 or any calendar year thereafter, not later than 90 days after the submission of that report.</content>
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||
</clause>
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||
</subparagraph>
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||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> “(D)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sense of congress</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the sense of Congress that the integrity of the process for making the determinations in the annual report on trafficking in persons, including determinations with respect to country rankings and the substance of the assessments in the report, should be respected and not affected by unrelated considerations.</content>
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||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="E"> “(E)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this paragraph:</chapeau><clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> “(i)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Annual report on trafficking in persons</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘annual report on trafficking in persons’</term> means the annual report on trafficking in persons required under section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<ref href="/us/usc/t22/s7107/b/1">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)</ref>).</content>
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||
</clause>
|
||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> “(ii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Appropriate congressional committees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term <term>‘appropriate congressional committees’</term> means—</chapeau><subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="I"> “(I)</num><content> the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and</content>
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</subclause>
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||
<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650128" class="indent4 fontsize10"><num value="II"> “(II)</num><content> the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.</content>
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||
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||
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||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iii"> “(iii)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Tier 2 watch list</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘tier 2 watch list’</term> means the list of countries required under section 110(b)(2)(A)(iii) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<ref href="/us/usc/t22/s7107/b/2/A/iii">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(2)(A)(iii)</ref>).</content>
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</clause>
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||
<clause role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> “(iv)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Tier 3 country</inline>.—</heading><content>The term <term>‘tier 3 country’</term> means a country on the list of countries required under section 110(b)(1)(C) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<ref href="/us/usc/t22/s7107/b/1/C">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)(C)</ref>).”</content>
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</subparagraph>
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</quotedContent>.</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 106(b)(6)(A) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4205/b/6/A">19 U.S.C. 4205(b)(6)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“to which the minimum”</quotedText> and all that follows through <quotedText>“7107(b)(1))”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“listed as a tier 3 country in the most recent annual report on trafficking in persons”</quotedText>.</content>
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</paragraph>
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||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Technical Amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><chapeau> in section 105(b)(3) (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/346">129 Stat. 346</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4204/b/3">19 U.S.C. 4204(b)(3)</ref>)—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> in subparagraph (A)(ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 102(b)(16)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 102(b)(17)”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> in subparagraph (B)(ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 102(b)(16)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 102(b)(17)”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> in section 106(b)(5) (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/354">129 Stat. 354</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4205/b/5">19 U.S.C. 4205(b)(5)</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 102(b)(15)(C)”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“section 102(b)(16)(C)”</quotedText>.</content>
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/stat/129/320">129 Stat. 320</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4201/etseq">19 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.</ref>).</content>
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</subsection>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="915">SEC. 915. </num><heading>TRADE PREFERENCES FOR NEPAL.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress makes the following findings:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> Nepal is among the least developed countries in the world, with a per capita gross national income of $730 in 2014.</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> Nepal suffered a devastating earthquake in April 2015, with subsequent aftershocks. More than 9,000 people died and approximately 23,000 people were injured.</content>
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</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Eligibility Requirements</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The President may authorize the provision of preferential treatment under this section to articles that are imported directly from Nepal into the customs territory of the United States pursuant to subsection (c) if the President determines—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> that Nepal meets the requirements set forth in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 104(a) of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3703/a">19 U.S.C. 3703(a)</ref>); and</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> after taking into account the factors set forth in paragraphs (1) through (7) of subsection (c) of section 502 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2462">19 U.S.C. 2462</ref>), that Nepal meets the eligibility requirements of such section 502.</content>
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</subparagraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Withdrawal, suspension, or limitation of preferential treatment; mandatory graduation</inline>.—</heading><content>The provisions of subsections (d) and (e) of section 502 of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2462">19 U.S.C. 2462</ref>) shall apply with respect to Nepal to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply with respect to beneficiary developing countries under title V of that Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2461/etseq">19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.</ref>).</content>
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|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Eligible Articles</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>An article described in paragraph (2) may enter the customs territory of the United States free of duty.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Articles described</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An article is described in this paragraph if—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><subclause class="inline"><num value="I">(I)</num><content> the article is the growth, product, or manufacture of Nepal; and</content>
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|
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<subclause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="II"> (II)</num><content> in the case of a textile or apparel article, Nepal is the country of origin of the article, as determined under <ref href="/us/cfr/t19/s102.21">section 102.21 of title 19, Code of Federal Regulations</ref> (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act);</content>
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</subclause>
|
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|
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> the article is imported directly from Nepal into the customs territory of the United States;</content>
|
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|
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<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="iv"> (iv)</num><content> the President determines, after receiving the advice of the United States International Trade Commission in accordance with section 503(e) of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2463/e">19 U.S.C. 2463(e)</ref>), that the article is not import-sensitive in the context of imports from Nepal; and</content>
|
||
</clause>
|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="v"> (v)</num><content> subject to subparagraph (C), the sum of the cost or value of the materials produced in, and the direct costs of processing operations performed in, Nepal or the customs territory of the United States is not less than 35 percent of the appraised value of the article at the time it is entered.</content>
|
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</clause>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Exclusions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An article shall not be treated as the growth, product, or manufacture of Nepal for purposes of subparagraph (A)(i)(I) by virtue of having merely undergone—</chapeau><clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="i"> (i)</num><content> simple combining or packaging operations; or</content>
|
||
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|
||
<clause style="-uslm-lc:I650126" class="indent3 fontsize10"><num value="ii"> (ii)</num><content> mere dilution with water or mere dilution with another substance that does not materially alter the characteristics of the article.</content>
|
||
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|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Limitation on united states cost</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of subparagraph (A)(v), the cost or value of materials produced in, and the direct costs of processing operations performed in, the customs territory of the United States and attributed to the 35-percent requirement under that subparagraph may not exceed 15 percent of the appraised value of the article at the time it is entered.</content>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Verification with respect to transshipment for textile and apparel articles</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each calendar year, the Commissioner shall verify that textile and apparel articles imported from Nepal to which preferential treatment is extended under this section are not being unlawfully transshipped into the United States.</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Report to president</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commissioner determines under subparagraph (A) that textile and apparel articles imported from Nepal to which preferential treatment is extended under this section are being unlawfully transshipped into the United States, the Commissioner shall report that determination to the President.</content>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="d"> (d)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Trade Facilitation and Capacity Building</inline>.—</heading><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress makes the following findings:</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> As a land-locked least-developed country, Nepal has severe challenges reaching markets and developing capacity to export goods. As of 2015, exports from Nepal are approximately $800,000,000 per year, with India the major market at $450,000,000 annually. The United States imports about $80,000,000 worth of goods from Nepal, or 10 percent of the total goods exported from Nepal.</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> The World Bank has found evidence that the overall export competitiveness of Nepal has been declining since 2005. Indices compiled by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that export costs in Nepal are high with respect to both air cargo and container shipments relative to other low-income countries. Such indices also identify particular weaknesses in Nepal with respect to automation of customs and other trade functions, involvement of local exporters and importers in preparing regulations and trade rules, and export finance.</content>
|
||
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|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> Implementation by Nepal of the Agreement on Trade Facilitation of the World Trade Organization could directly address some of the weaknesses described in subparagraph (B).</content>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Establishment of trade facilitation and capacity building program</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall, in consultation with the Government of Nepal, establish a trade facilitation and capacity building program for Nepal—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="A"> (A)</num><content> to enhance the central export promotion agency of Nepal to support successful exporters and to build awareness among potential exporters in Nepal about opportunities abroad and ways to manage trade documentation and regulations in the United States and other countries;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="B"> (B)</num><content> to provide export finance training for financial institutions in Nepal and the Government of Nepal;</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="C"> (C)</num><content> to assist the Government of Nepal in maintaining publication on the Internet of all trade regulations, forms for exporters and importers, tax and tariff rates, and other documentation relating to exporting goods and developing a robust public-private dialogue, through its National Trade Facilitation Committee, for Nepal to identify timelines for implementation of key reforms and solutions, as provided for under the Agreement on Trade Facilitation of the World Trade Organization; and</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650124" class="indent2 fontsize10"><num value="D"> (D)</num><content> to increase access to guides for importers and exporters, through publication of such guides on the Internet, including rules and documentation for United States tariff preference programs.</content>
|
||
</subparagraph>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="e"> (e)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Reporting Requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President shall monitor, review, and report to Congress on the implementation of this section, the compliance of Nepal with subsection (b)(1), and the trade and investment policy of the United States with respect to Nepal.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="f"> (f)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Termination of Preferential Treatment</inline>.—</heading><content>No preferential treatment extended under this section shall remain in effect after December 31, 2025.</content>
|
||
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|
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="g"> (g)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The provisions of this section shall take effect on the date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
|
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="916">SEC. 916. </num><heading>AGREEMENT BY ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION MEMBERS TO REDUCE RATES OF DUTY ON CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS.</heading><content><p style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 107 of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/pl/114/26">Public Law 114–26</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s4206">19 U.S.C. 4206</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:</p><quotedContent><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> “(c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Agreement by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Members to Reduce Rates of Duty on Certain Environmental Goods</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding the notification requirement described in section 103(a)(2), the President may exercise the proclamation authority provided for in section 103(a)(1)(B) to implement an agreement by members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to reduce any rate of duty on certain environmental goods included in Annex C of the APEC Leaders Declaration issued on September 9, 2012, if (and only if) the President, as soon as feasible after the date of the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, and before exercising proclamation authority under section 103(a)(1)(B), notifies Congress of the negotiations relating to the agreement and the specific United States objectives in the negotiations.”</content>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="917">SEC. 917. </num><heading>AMENDMENT TO TARIFF ACT OF 1930 TO REQUIRE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN MARKING OF CERTAIN CASTINGS.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 304(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s1304/e">19 U.S.C. 1304(e)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in the subsection heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<headingText class="small-caps">Manhole Rings or Frames, Covers, and Assemblies Thereof</headingText>”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“<headingText class="small-caps">Castings</headingText>”</quotedText>;</content>
|
||
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|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“inlet frames, tree and trench grates, lampposts, lamppost bases, cast utility poles, bollards, hydrants, utility boxes,”</quotedText> before <quotedText>“manhole rings,”</quotedText>; and</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end before the period the following: <quotedText>“in a location such that it will remain visible after installation”</quotedText>.</content>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by subsection (a) take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply with respect to the importation of castings described in such amendments on or after the date that is 180 days after such date of enactment.</content>
|
||
</subsection>
|
||
</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="918">SEC. 918. </num><heading>INCLUSION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION IN SUBMISSION OF NOMINATION FOR APPOINTMENT AS DEPUTY UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE.</heading><content><p style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 141(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s2171/b">19 U.S.C. 2171(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:</p><quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="5"> “(5)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> When the President submits to the Senate for its advice and consent a nomination of an individual for appointment as a Deputy United States Trade Representative under paragraph (2), the President shall include in that submission information on the country, regional offices, and functions of the Office of the United States Trade Representative with respect to which that individual will have responsibility.</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="B"> “(B)</num><content> The President shall notify the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate not less than 30 days prior to making any change to the responsibilities of any Deputy United States Trade Representative included in a submission under subparagraph (A), including the reason for that change.”</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="919">SEC. 919. </num><heading>SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NEED FOR A MISCELLANEOUS TARIFF BILL PROCESS.</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress makes the following findings:</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> As of the date of the enactment of this Act, the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States imposes duties on imported goods for which there is no domestic availability or insufficient domestic availability.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> The imposition of duties on such goods creates artificial distortions in the economy of the United States that negatively affect United States manufacturers and consumers.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> It would be in the interests of the United States if the Harmonized Tariff Schedule were updated regularly and predictably to eliminate such artificial distortions by suspending or reducing duties on such goods.</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> The manufacturing competitiveness of the United States around the world would be enhanced if the Harmonized Tariff Schedule were updated regularly and predictably to suspend or reduce duties on such goods.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Sense of Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the sense of Congress that, to remove the competitive disadvantage to United States manufacturers and consumers resulting from the imposition of such duties and to promote the competitiveness of United States manufacturers, the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives are urged to advance, as soon as possible, after consultation with the public and Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, a regular and predictable legislative process for the temporary suspension and reduction of duties that is consistent with the rules of the Senate and the House.</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="920">SEC. 920. </num><heading>CUSTOMS USER FEES.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 13031(j)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (<ref href="/us/usc/t19/s58c/j/3">19 U.S.C. 58c(j)(3)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> in subparagraph (A), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“July 7, 2025”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“September 30, 2025”</quotedText>; and</content>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subparagraph (D).</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Rate for Merchandise Processing Fees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 503 of the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (<ref href="/us/pl/112/41">Public Law 112–41</ref>; <ref href="/us/usc/t19/s3805">19 U.S.C. 3805 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“June 30, 2025”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“September 30, 2025”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (c).</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="921">SEC. 921. </num><heading>INCREASE IN PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FILE RETURN OF TAX.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 6651(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“$135”</quotedText> in the last sentence and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“$205”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 6651(i) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“$135”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“$205”</quotedText>.</content>
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</subsection>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="c"> (c)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply to returns required to be filed in calendar years after 2015.</content>
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</section>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650143"><num value="922">SEC. 922. </num><heading>PERMANENT MORATORIUM ON INTERNET ACCESS TAXES AND ON MULTIPLE AND DISCRIMINATORY TAXES ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.</heading><subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="a"> (a)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Permanent Moratorium</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 1101(a) of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t47/s151">47 U.S.C. 151 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“during the period beginning November 1, 2003, and ending October 1, 2015”</quotedText>.</content>
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<subsection role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"><num value="b"> (b)</num><heading><inline class="small-caps">Temporary Extension</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 1104(a)(2)(A) of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t47/s151">47 U.S.C. 151 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“October 1, 2015”</quotedText> and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“June 30, 2020”</quotedText>.</content>
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</subsection>
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</title>
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</main>
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<signatures>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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