Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
§ 4315. Consultations with respect to mutual recognition arrangements
Statutory text
Consultations
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—
not later than 30 days before initiating negotiations to enter into any such arrangement or similar agreement; and
not later than 30 days before entering into any such arrangement or similar agreement.
Negotiating objective
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 (6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.), 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.
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 Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
Pub. L. 114–125 title I § 108 · 130 Stat. 122
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4315
(Pub. L. 114–125, title I, § 108, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 135.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–125, title I, § 108, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 135.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 108. CONSULTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO MUTUAL RECOGNITION ARRANGEMENTS. (a) Consultations.— 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— (1) not later than 30 days before initiating negotiations to enter into any such arrangement or similar agreement; and (2) not later than 30 days before entering into any such arrangement or similar agreement. (b) Negotiating Objective.— 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 (6 U.S.C. 961 et seq.), 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.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 109–347, , 120 Stat. 1884, also known as the SAFE Port Act. Subtitle B of title II of the Act is classified generally to part B (§ 961 et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 3 of Title 6, Domestic Security. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 901 of Title 6 and Tables.