Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73not60

§4322 Priority Trade Issues

Title 19 › Chapter 28— TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter I— TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT › § 4322

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commissioner must treat seven topic areas as priority trade issues: agriculture; antidumping and countervailing duties; import safety; intellectual property rights; revenue; textiles and wearing apparel; and trade agreements and preference programs. The Commissioner can create new priority topics or remove, combine, or change existing ones if they decide it is necessary and appropriate. If new priorities are created, the Commissioner must send a summary to the congressional committees responsible for trade within 30 days after the changes take effect. If existing priorities are being removed, combined, or changed, the Commissioner must send a summary to those committees at least 60 days before the changes take effect.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §4322

Customs Duties — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Commissioner shall establish the following as priority trade issues:

(1)Agriculture programs.

(2)Antidumping and countervailing duties.

(3)Import safety.

(4)Intellectual property rights.

(5)Revenue.

(6)Textiles and wearing apparel.

(7)Trade agreements and preference programs.

(b)The Commissioner is authorized to establish new priority trade issues and eliminate, consolidate, or otherwise modify the priority trade issues described in subsection (a) if the Commissioner—

(1)determines it necessary and appropriate to do so; and

(2)(A)in the case of new priority trade issues, submits to the appropriate congressional committees a summary of proposals to establish such new priority trade issues not later than 30 days after such new priority trade issues are to take effect; and

(B)in the case of existing priority trade issues, submits to the appropriate congressional committees a summary of proposals to eliminate, consolidate, or otherwise modify such existing priority trade issues not later than 60 days before such changes are to take effect.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 4322

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60