§4314 Joint Strategic Plan

Summary

The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must work together to write and send a joint strategic plan to the appropriate congressional committees no later than one year after February 24, 2016, and then every 2 years after that. The plan must be a multiyear plan about trade enforcement and trade facilitation. The plan must say what was done in the prior 2 years and show ways to measure Customs and ICE performance. It must state goals and next steps. It must identify priority trade problems (the ones named in section 4322) and give strategies for each, including how enforcement targets are chosen, recommendations to improve enforcement, and whether past recommendations were carried out. The plan must describe agency coordination (especially between Customs and ICE), training done (including seminars under section 4313), work with international groups like the World Customs Organization, Customs benchmarks for staffing and port wait times, useful best practices, any legislative suggestions, and outreach to the private sector. While making the plan, they must consult relevant federal agencies (for example, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Interior, HHS, FDA, CPSC, and the U.S. Trade Representative) and the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, and try to consult foreign law enforcement, international groups, and private parties. The plan must be unclassified but may include a classified annex.