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Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73not60

§3904 Regulatory and Other Authority

Title 19 › Chapter 25— CLEAN DIAMOND TRADE › § 3904

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President must issue rules, licenses, and orders and carry out investigations needed to enforce the law. People or companies in the U.S. who import or export rough diamonds must keep full records. The President can require them to give sworn information and produce books, contracts, letters, or other papers. The President must have an agency check each year that U.S. issuers of Kimberley Process export certificates follow the Kimberley Process rules, and send a report on each check to congressional committees.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §3904

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(a)The President is authorized to and shall as necessary issue such proclamations, regulations, licenses, and orders, and conduct such investigations, as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.
(b)Any United States person seeking to export from or import into the United States any rough diamonds shall keep a full record of, in the form of reports or otherwise, complete information relating to any act or transaction to which any prohibition imposed under section 3903(a) of this title applies. The President may require such person to furnish such information under oath, including the production of books of account, records, contracts, letters, memoranda, or other papers, in the custody or control of such person.
(c)The President shall require the appropriate Government agency to conduct annual reviews of the standards, practices, and procedures of any entity in the United States that issues Kimberley Process Certificates for the exportation from the United States of rough diamonds to determine whether such standards, practices, and procedures are in accordance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on each annual review under this subsection.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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For

Effective Date

of this section, see section 15 of Pub. L. 108–19, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For assignment of functions of President under this section, see section 2 of Ex. Ord. No. 13312, July 29, 2003, 68 F.R. 45151, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 3904

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60