Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
§ 4322. Priority trade issues
Statutory text
In general
The Commissioner shall establish the following as priority trade issues:
Agriculture programs.
Antidumping and countervailing duties.
Import safety.
Intellectual property rights.
Revenue.
Textiles and wearing apparel.
Trade agreements and preference programs.
Modification
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—
determines it necessary and appropriate to do so; and
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
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.
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 § 117 · 130 Stat. 122
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4322
(Pub. L. 114–125, title I, § 117, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 145.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–125, title I, § 117, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 145.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 117. PRIORITY TRADE ISSUES. (a) In General.— The Commissioner shall establish the following as priority trade issues: (1) Agriculture programs. (2) Antidumping and countervailing duties. (3) Import safety. (4) Intellectual property rights. (5) Revenue. (6) Textiles and wearing apparel. (7) Trade agreements and preference programs. (b) Modification.— 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— (1) determines it necessary and appropriate to do so; and (2) (A) 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 (B) 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.
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