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Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73

§3808 Additional implementation and enforcement requirements

Title 19 › Chapter CHAPTER 24— - BIPARTISAN TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY › § 3808

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the President sends Congress the final text of a trade agreement, he must also send a plan to put the agreement into effect and enforce it. The plan must list added border staff (including customs and agricultural inspectors); added federal staff (USTR, Commerce, Agriculture — including sanitary and phytosanitary staff — Treasury, and others); extra Customs equipment and facilities; effects on state and local governments; and the cost of each item. The President must then ask for the funds needed in the first budget he sends to Congress after submitting the plan.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §3808

Customs Duties — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)At the time the President submits to the Congress the final text of an agreement pursuant to section 3805(a)(1)(C) of this title, the President shall also submit a plan for implementing and enforcing the agreement. The implementation and enforcement plan shall include the following:
(1)A description of additional personnel required at border entry points, including a list of additional customs and agricultural inspectors.
(2)A description of additional personnel required by Federal agencies responsible for monitoring and implementing the trade agreement, including personnel required by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture (including additional personnel required to implement sanitary and phytosanitary measures in order to obtain market access for United States exports), the Department of the Treasury, and such other agencies as may be necessary.
(3)A description of the additional equipment and facilities needed by the United States Customs Service.
(4)A description of the impact the trade agreement will have on State and local governments as a result of increases in trade.
(5)An analysis of the costs associated with each of the items listed in paragraphs (1) through (4).
(b)The President shall include a request for the resources necessary to support the plan described in subsection (a) in the first budget that the President submits to the Congress after the submission of the plan.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in Pub. L. 107–296 as of Nov. 25, 2002, see section 211 of Title 6, as amended generally by Pub. L. 114–125, and section 802(b) of Pub. L. 114–125, set out as a note under section 211 of Title 6.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For delegation of functions of President under this section, see section 1 of Ex. Ord. No. 13277, Nov. 19, 2002, 67 F.R. 70305, set out as a note under section 3801 of this title.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 3808

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73