§4313 Educational seminars to improve efforts to classify and appraise imported articles, to improve trade enforcement efforts, and to otherwise facilitate legitimate international trade

Summary

Each fiscal year the Commissioner and the ICE Director must set up and run training seminars for CBP staff and, when needed, ICE staff. The classes must teach how to inspect and test imported goods, check shipping papers and country of origin, value imports, and learn about supply chains. They must also teach ways to better enforce trade laws, including collecting countervailing and antidumping duties, stopping duty evasion on textiles, protecting intellectual property, and enforcing child labor rules. Training materials must be approved by the Commissioner and the Director. Private-sector experts can help teach; the Commissioner must make and publish a clear process in the Federal Register for picking them based on usefulness, availability, and how often mislabeling or origin mistakes happen. Petitioners asking help with a specific countervailing or antidumping order can be treated as such experts. The agencies must set performance standards and send a report to Congress by September 30, 2016, and every year after. The law defines: Director = ICE Director; United States = the customs territory; CBP personnel = import specialists, auditors, and similar CBP employees; ICE personnel = Homeland Security Investigations staff and other ICE employees.