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This Act may be cited as the . Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2013 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I—Customs organization Subtitle A—Functions other than investigative functions Sec. 101. Establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency; Commissioner. Sec. 102. Officers and employees. Sec. 103. Separate budget requests for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
Sec. 104. Revolving fund. Sec. 105. Advances in foreign countries. Sec. 106. Advances for enforcement of customs provisions. Sec. 107. Certification of reason for advance. Sec. 108. Payments in foreign countries; claims for reimbursement. Sec. 109. Customs administration. Sec. 110. Personnel. Sec. 111. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle B—Investigative functions Sec. 121. Establishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Sec. 122. Separate budget requests for U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Sec. 123. Undercover investigative operations. Sec. 124. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle C—Joint strategic plan on trade facilitation and trade enforcement Sec. 131. Joint strategic plan on trade facilitation and trade enforcement. TITLE II—Trade facilitation, trade enforcement, and transparency Subtitle A—Trade facilitation and transparency Sec. 201. Improving partnership programs. Sec. 202. Trade facilitation partnership program.
Sec. 203. Centers of Excellence and Expertise. Sec. 204. Mutual recognition agreements. Sec. 205. Customs Operations Advisory Committee. Sec. 206. Automated Commercial Environment computer system. Sec. 207. International Trade Data System. Sec. 208. Electronic submission of public comments. Subtitle B—Trade enforcement Chapter 1—Commercial targeting Sec. 211. Commercial Targeting Division and National Targeting and Analysis Groups. Sec. 212. Annual illegal drug control law enforcement strategy.
Sec. 213. Report on oversight of revenue protection and enforcement measures by the inspector general. Sec. 214. Report on security and revenue measures with respect to merchandise transported in bond. Sec. 215. Importer of record program. Chapter 2—Import health and safety Sec. 221. Interagency Import Safety Working Group. Sec. 222. Joint import safety rapid response plan. Sec. 223. Training. Chapter 3—Import-Related protection of intellectual property rights SUBCHAPTER A—National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center Sec. 231.
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. SUBCHAPTER B—Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 Sec. 241. Provision to rights owners of information about and samples of merchandise suspected of infringing trademarks or copyrights. Sec. 242. Enforcement by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency of works for which a copyright registration is pending. Sec. 243. Seizure of circumvention devices. SUBCHAPTER C—Other matters Sec. 251. Definition of intellectual property rights.
Sec. 252. Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Sec. 253. Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Sec. 254. Training with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Sec. 255. Information for travelers regarding violations of intellectual property rights. Sec. 256. International cooperation and information sharing. Sec. 257. Sense of Congress regarding recordation process. Sec. 258. Report on intellectual property rights enforcement.
Chapter 4—Coordination of trade enforcement priorities Sec. 261. Establishment of priority trade enforcement coordination centers. TITLE III—Evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders Sec. 301. Short title. Sec. 302. Procedures for investigating claims of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Sec. 303. Annual report on prevention and investigation of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. TITLE IV—Miscellaneous provisions Sec. 401. Consultation on trade and customs revenue functions.
Sec. 402. Drawback simplification. Sec. 403. Penalties for customs brokers. Sec. 404. Amendments to chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. Sec. 405. Charter flights. Sec. 406. Pilot program to designate additional 24-hour commercial ports of entry. Sec. 407. Elimination of consumptive demand exception to prohibition on importation of goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor; report. Sec. 408. Honey transshipment. Sec. 409. Contraband archaeological or ethnological materials.
Sec. 410. De minimis value and entry under regulations. Sec. 411. Repeal of authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to enter into certain reimbursable fee agreements.