Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part II · Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
§ 4391. Allocation and training of personnel
Statutory text
The Commissioner shall, to the maximum extent possible, ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection—
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;
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
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.
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.
Enforce and Protect Act of 2015
Pub. L. 114–125 title IV § 431 · 130 Stat. 122
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4391
(Pub. L. 114–125, title IV, § 431, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 169.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–125, title IV, § 431, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 169.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 431. ALLOCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONNEL. The Commissioner shall, to the maximum extent possible, ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection— (1) 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; (2) 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 (3) 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.
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