§2083 Annual national trade and customs law violation estimates and enforcement strategy

Summary

The Commissioner of Customs must send a yearly report to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee at least 30 days before the start of each fiscal year after fiscal year 1991. The report must estimate how many and how serious violations of the Customs, trade, and illegal drug laws (the specific law items are set out in a list the Commissioner must make) are likely to occur that year. It must also show how those violations are likely to be spread across ports of entry and customs regions. The Commissioner had to create that list within 60 days after August 20, 1990, and can update it later. Within 90 days after sending each yearly report, the Commissioner must make a single national enforcement plan for handling the predicted violations and send the plan to the Committees. The Commissioner must also create a method to measure how well people follow the laws and, for fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996, include an evaluation of compliance for the 12 months before the 60th day prior to each fiscal year. All reports and plans are confidential and may only be seen by officers and employees the Commissioner names, the chairmen of the Committees, and Committee members or staff approved by those chairmen.