Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
§ 4346. Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of intellectual property rights
Statutory text
Personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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.
Staffing of National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
The Commissioner shall—
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 4344 of this title; and
ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned to United States ports of entry to carry out the directives of the Center.
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 III § 307 · 130 Stat. 122
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4346
(Pub. L. 114–125, title III, § 307, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 152.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–125, title III, § 307, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 152.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 307. PERSONNEL DEDICATED TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. (a) Personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.— 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. (b) Staffing of National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.— The Commissioner shall— (1) 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 (2) ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned to United States ports of entry to carry out the directives of the Center.
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