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Title 19, Customs DutiesRelease 119-110

§4312 Priorities and Performance Standards for Customs Modernization, Trade Facilitation, and Trade Enforcement Functions and Programs

Title 19 › CHAPTER 28 — TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER I — TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT › § 4312

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commissioner must set priorities and performance standards to measure how customs modernization, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement programs develop and perform. The Commissioner must consult the relevant congressional committees at least once a year. The standards must include efficiency, outcome, output, and other applicable measures. These priorities cover the Automated Commercial Environment; the priority trade issues in section 4322; the Centers of Excellence and Expertise in section 4317; drawback under 19 U.S.C. 1313 (as amended by section 906); bonded import transactions; collecting countervailing and antidumping duties (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq. and 1673 et seq.); expedited cargo clearance; and issuing regulations, rulings, and Regulatory Audit Reports. The Commissioner must notify the committees at least 30 days before any changes take effect.

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Title 19, §4312

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(a)Priorities and performance standards
(1)In general
The Commissioner, in consultation with the appropriate congressional committees, shall establish priorities and performance standards to measure the development and levels of achievement of the customs modernization, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement functions and programs described in subsection (b).
(2)Minimum priorities and standards
Such priorities and performance standards shall, at a minimum, include priorities and standards relating to efficiency, outcome, output, and other types of applicable measures.
(b)Functions and programs described
The functions and programs referred to in subsection (a) are the following:
(1)The Automated Commercial Environment.
(2)Each of the priority trade issues described in section 4322 of this title.
(3)The Centers of Excellence and Expertise described in section 4317 of this title.
(4)Drawback for exported merchandise under section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1313), as amended by section 906 of this Act.
(5)Transactions relating to imported merchandise in bond.
(6)Collection of countervailing duties assessed under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) and antidumping duties assessed under subtitle B of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673 et seq.).
(7)The expedited clearance of cargo.
(8)The issuance of regulations and rulings.
(9)The issuance of Regulatory Audit Reports.
(c)Consultations and notification
(1)Consultations
The consultations required by subsection (a)(1) shall occur, at a minimum, on an annual basis.
(2)Notification
The Commissioner shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of any changes to the priorities or performance standards referred to in subsection (a) not later than 30 days before such changes are to take effect.

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The Tariff Act of 1930, referred to in subsec. (b)(4), (6), is act June 17, 1930, ch. 497, 46 Stat. 590. section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 906 of this Act, is section 1313 of this title, as amended by section 906 of Pub. L. 114–125. Subtitles A and B of title VII of the Act are classified generally to parts I (§ 1671 et seq.) and II (§ 1673 et seq.), respectively, of subtitle IV of chapter 4 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1654 of this title and Tables.

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19 U.S.C. § 4312

Title 19, Customs Duties

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110