§3808 Additional Implementation and Enforcement Requirements

Summary

When the President sends Congress the final text of a trade agreement under section 3805(a)(1)(C), the President must also send a plan that shows how the agreement will be carried out and enforced. The plan must describe extra people needed at border entry points (including customs and agricultural inspectors); extra staff needed at federal agencies that will monitor and run the agreement (naming the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture — including staff for sanitary and phytosanitary health and plant controls to get U.S. exports into markets — Department of the Treasury, and any other needed agencies); extra equipment and facilities for the U.S. Customs Service; the effects on State and local governments from increased trade; and a cost analysis for all these items. The President must ask for the money needed to carry out this plan in the first budget submitted to Congress after the plan is sent.