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Title 19 — Customs Duties

Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement

§ 4404. Report on actions taken by United States Trade Representative

Statutory text

Not later than one year after the appointment of the first Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator pursuant to paragraph (2) of section 2171(b) of this title, as amended by subsection (a),1 and annually thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report describing in detail—

(1)

enforcement actions taken by the Trade Representative during the one-year period preceding the submission of the report to ensure the protection of United States innovation and intellectual property interests; and

(2)

other actions taken by the Trade Representative to advance United States innovation and intellectual property interests.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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.

  1. Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015

    Pub. L. 114–125 title VI § 609(c) · 130 Stat. 122

    Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4404

    (Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 609(c), Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 190.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 609(c), Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 190.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (c) Report Required.— Not later than one year after the appointment of the first Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator pursuant to paragraph (2) of section 141(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by subsection (a), and annually thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report describing in detail— (1) enforcement actions taken by the Trade Representative during the one-year period preceding the submission of the report to ensure the protection of United States innovation and intellectual property interests; and (2) other actions taken by the Trade Representative to advance United States innovation and intellectual property interests.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Subsection (a), referred to in text, means section 609(a) of Pub. L. 114–125, par. (1) of which amended section 2171(b)(2) of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 609(c), , 130 Stat. 190.)

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