§4314 Joint Strategic Plan

Summary

Within one year after February 24, 2016, and every two years after that, 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. The plan must cover several years and explain how the government will enforce trade laws and make trade move more smoothly. It must summarize what was done in the prior two years and show performance measures for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE. It must list goals and plans, name priority trade issues in section 4322 and give strategies for each (including how enforcement targets are chosen, recommendations, and the status of past recommendations), describe steps to improve coordination among federal agencies and between Customs and ICE, describe training done (including seminars under section 4313), explain work with the World Customs Organization and other international groups, give U.S. Customs and Border Protection targets for staffing and wait times at ports of entry, identify useful domestic or international best practices, offer any legislative suggestions, and describe outreach to the private sector. In making the plan, they must consult officials from Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Interior, Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Trade Representative, plus the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, and seek input from foreign law enforcement, international groups (including the World Customs Organization), and interested private parties. The plan must be submitted in unclassified form but may include a separate classified section.