Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 1 · Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974
§ 2255. Trade monitoring
Statutory text
Monitoring tool for imports
In general
Not later than 180 days after , 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.
Data described
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.
Periods of time
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.
Monitoring reports
In general
Not later than 270 days after , 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.
Requests for comment
Not later than one year after , the Secretary of Commerce shall solicit through the Federal Register public comment on the monitoring reports described in paragraph (1).
Sunset
The requirements under this section terminate on the date that is seven years after .
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Trade Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–618 title II § 205 · 88 Stat. 1978
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2255
(Pub. L. 93–618, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 603(a), Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 185.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–618, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 603(a), Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 185.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is not set out in the Code. See Publication of Harmonized Tariff Schedule note set out under section 1202 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 93–618, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 603(a), , 130 Stat. 185.)