§9225 Enhanced inspection authorities

Summary

The President must send a report to the right congressional committees within 180 days after August 2, 2017, and then once a year for 5 years. The report must be unclassified but may include a classified add-on. It must name foreign seaport and airport operators who knowingly fail to follow UN rules to inspect ships, planes, and cargo to or from North Korea, or who help move significant cargo, vessels, or aircraft tied to people the UN has sanctioned, or who help the activities in section 9214(a). The report must also say how well countries have de-registered vessels linked to North Korea, describe Iran’s compliance with UN sanctions, identify vessels, aircraft, and conveyances run by the Reconnaissance General Bureau of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and summarize U.S. diplomatic and enforcement efforts on these points. The Secretary of Homeland Security may require extra screening of cargo headed to or landed in the United States if it passed through a flagged port/operator, was on a vessel/aircraft/conveyance that entered North Korea or its ports/airports in the last 365 days, or is registered in a country the President found deficient. The extra checks do not apply when a vessel or aircraft entered North Korea only for the narrow reason in section 9228(b)(3)(B) or to bring food, medicine, or humanitarian supplies into North Korea. Any U.S.-jurisdiction vessel, aircraft, or conveyance used to help the activities in section 9214(a) may be seized and forfeited under chapter 46 of title 18 or part V of title IV of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1581 et seq.).