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

Summary

The Commissioner must set priorities and ways to measure how well customs modernization, trade facilitation, and trade enforcement programs are doing. The Commissioner must work with the appropriate congressional committees. The measurements must include efficiency, outcomes, outputs, and other useful types of measures. The rules cover nine program areas, including the Automated Commercial Environment; the priority trade issues in section 4322; the Centers of Excellence and Expertise in section 4317; drawback under section 313 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1313); imports in bond; collection of countervailing and antidumping duties (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq. and 1673 et seq.); faster cargo clearance; and issuing regulations, rulings, and Regulatory Audit Reports. The Commissioner must consult with Congress at least once a year and must tell the committees about any changes at least 30 days before they start.