Sec. 7. Information on imported animals

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The Director shall— not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, establish an electronic database that describes, using scientific names to the species level (or subspecies level, if applicable), all quantities of imports of all live wildlife, and the regulatory status of the wildlife, in a form that permits that information to be rapidly accessed; and not later than 30 days after the date of importation of wildlife described in paragraph (1), make the information described in that paragraph (other than confidential business information associated with those imports that is protected under other Federal law) available on a publicly available Federal Internet site.

Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and not later than each April 1 thereafter, the Director shall issue, including on a publicly available Federal Internet site, a report that includes, at a minimum, a description of— all nonnative wildlife imported, using scientific names of the wildlife to the species or subspecies level, to the extent known; and cumulative quantities of imported wildlife and the regulatory status of the wildlife. In consultation with inspection, customs, and border officials in the Departments of Agriculture and Homeland Security, the Director shall regularly— monitor the identities and quantities of nonnative wildlife taxa being imported, with particular emphasis on wildlife newly in the import trade to the United States; and determine, to the maximum extent practicable, whether the newly traded taxa would meet the criteria for regulation, and should be regulated, under any of clause

(i)or

(ii)of section 5(a)(1)(A).