Sec. 4. Annual report on compliance with advance electronic information requirements
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Section 8003 of the STOP Act of 2018 (subtitle A of title VIII of Public Law 115–271 ; 132 Stat. 4077) is amended by striking subsections
(c)through
(f)and inserting the following: Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the STOP Act 2.0 , and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on compliance with the requirements of section 343(a) of the Trade Act of 2002 ( 19 U.S.C. 1415(a) ) that includes the following: An update regarding new and existing agreements reached with foreign postal operators for the transmission of the information required by paragraph (3)(K) of that section. A summary of deliberations between the United States Postal Service and foreign postal operators with respect to issues relating to the transmission of that information. A summary of the progress made in achieving the transmission of that information for the percentage of shipments required by that paragraph, including the results of random checks and information disaggregated by postal and nonpostal data. An assessment of the quality of that information being received by foreign postal operators, as determined by the Secretary, and actions taken to improve the quality of that information, including estimates of— the amount of information required by section 343(a) of the Trade Act of 2002 that is missing elements, incomplete, inaccurate, or apparently false; the number of shipments that U.S. Customs and Border Protection requested to be searched as a result of information required by that section; how many shipments were actually searched pursuant to such a request; and the results of such searches, including the number of illicit narcotics and counterfeit goods identified during such searches. A description of the results of randomized tests of packages entering the United States to assess the rate of compliance with the requirements of section 343(a) of the Trade Act of 2002— disaggregated by packages transported by the United States Postal Service and packages transported by private carriers; and that takes into account, as relevant, the way that the factors set forth in paragraph
(3)of that section may affect any differences identified between packages transported by the United States Postal Service and packages transported by private carriers. For each report submitted during the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the STOP Act 2.0 — a list of the countries that, during the year preceding submission of the report, were excluded from the requirement under subclause
(I)of section 343(a)(3)(K)(vi) of the Trade Act of 2002 that advance information be provided for 100 percent of international mail shipments pursuant to subclause
(II)of that section; and for any country on the list required by clause
(i)that has been excluded from the requirement described in that clause for each of the preceding 3 years— an identification of the reasons why the country remains on the list; and a description of steps that are being taken to ensure that the country is prepared for the termination of the authority to exclude countries from that requirement terminates under subclause
(V)of that section (as added by section 3 of the STOP Act 2.0 ). A summary of policies established by the Universal Postal Union that may affect the ability of the Postmaster General to obtain the transmission of the information required by section 343(a) of the Trade Act of 2002. A summary of the use of technology to detect illicit synthetic opioids and other illegal substances in international mail parcels and planned acquisitions and advancements in such technology. Such other information as the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Postmaster General consider appropriate with respect to obtaining the transmission of information required by section 343(a)(3)(K) of the Trade Act of 2002. Each report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex. The unclassified portion of the report required by paragraph
(1)may be made available on a publicly accessible internet website of the United States Postal Service. In this subsection, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. .
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Annual report on compliance with advance electronic information requirements
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