Sec. 71022. Improvement of anti-counterfeiting measures
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report on seizures by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of counterfeit goods during the one-year period preceding submission of the report, including the number of such seizures disaggregated by category of good, source country, and mode of transport. The Commissioner shall increase inspections of imports of goods from each source country identified in the report required by paragraph
(1)as one of the top source countries of counterfeit goods, as determined by the Commissioner. Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than every 5 years thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall publish in the Federal Register criteria for determining that a market is a notorious market for purposes of inclusion of that market in the list developed by the Trade Representative pursuant to section 182(e) of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2242(e) ) (commonly known as the Notorious Markets List ). Not less frequently than annually, the Trade Representative shall publish on an publicly available internet website of the Office of the United States Trade Representative— the action plans for priority watch list countries under section 182(g)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2242(g)(1) ) for that year; and for each priority watch list country with respect to which such an action plan is prepared, an assessment of the progress of the country in meeting the benchmarks described in subparagraph
(D)of that section. Not less frequently than annually, the Trade Representative shall hold public hearings to track the progress of priority watch list countries in meeting the benchmarks described in subparagraph
(D)of section 182(g)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2242(g)(1) ) included in their action plans under that section. In this subsection, the term priority watch list country means a country identified under section 182(a)(2) of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2242(a)(2) ). Section 628A of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1628a ) is amended— in subsection (a)(1), by inserting , packing materials, shipping containers, after its packaging each place it appears; and in subsection (b)— in paragraph (3), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: any other party with an interest in the merchandise, as determined appropriate by the Commissioner. .
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