Sec. 5. Foreign assistance for countries committed to eliminating deforestation
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It is the policy of the United States to assist foreign governments in eliminating illegal deforestation and to limit all deforestation to the extent practicable. There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund, consisting of amounts authorized to be appropriated or appropriated under paragraph (2). There are authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated, to the fund established under paragraph
(1)for fiscal year 2023 and each fiscal year thereafter an amount equivalent to the amount of penalties estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury to be collected under section 527A(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 3, in that fiscal year. Amounts in the fund established under paragraph
(1)shall be available as follows: 40 percent shall be available to the Secretary of State— to provide financial and technical assistance and other resources to the governments of countries and implementing partners that are working to complete the benchmarks in action plans developed under section 527A(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 3; and to be transferred, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, to the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies to provide assistance under clause (i). 50 percent shall be available to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection— to carry out the duties of the Commissioner under section 527A of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 3; and to be transferred, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior for monitoring, audits, enforcement, and other duties assigned under such section 527A. 10 percent shall be available to the United States Trade Representative to carry out the duties of the Trade Representative under such section 527A. In this section, the terms deforestation and illegal deforestation have the meanings given those terms in section 527A(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as added by section 3.